On Friday, Japanese media quoted Yamagami’s uncle, whose name was not released, as saying that the suspect’s mother joined the church in 1991, several years after the death of her husband. When his mother filed for bankruptcy in 2002, putting the suspect’s siblings in financial difficulty, Yamagami tried to killContinue Reading
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Xinjiang this week, making his first trip in eight years to the once-restive northwestern frontier region. From Tuesday (Jul 12) to Friday, Xi visited sites in Xinjiang including a cotton plantation, a trade zone and a museum, state broadcaster CCTV reported in a 34-minuteContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea hopes a high-level visit to Tokyo next week will kickstart talks aimed at a breakthrough in historical disputes despite concerns the death of former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe could change Japan’s policy priorities, Seoul officials said. Relations between the two North Asian US allies have been strainedContinue Reading
Health facilities in Malaysia are facing a shortage of medicine for children as well as for illnesses such as cough, flu and temperature, says Health Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Khairy Jamaluddin.Continue Reading
SEOUL: Southern Korea has repatriated nearly 200 North Koreans who reached the South via the sea border considering that 2010 but two fishermen sent back in 2019 were deported against their can, data from Seoul’s Unification Ministry showed on Friday (Jul 15). The rare data from the ministry in chargeContinue Reading
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the same meeting called on G20 members to improve their spending to deal with existing food protection challenges. Yellen said poor households in the poorest countries were probably the most directly affected, establishing back development and undermining efforts to eradicate poverty. Russian President VladimirContinue Reading
MUMBAI: India reported the first confirmed situation of monkeypox upon Thursday (Jul 14), a 35-year-old man with a history of travel to the Middle East, federal government officials said. The man, who travelled from the United Arab Emirates towards the southern Indian state of Kerala on Jul 12, is atContinue Reading
Sri Lanka is continuing negotiations with China for as much as US$4 billion in aid and is confident Beijing will agree “at some point,” Bloomberg News reported on Friday (Jul 15), citing Sri Lanka’s ambassador to China. Colombo is asking China for a loan of US$1 billion to repay anContinue Reading
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Best Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe was sworn in on Friday (Jul 15) as performing president, his workplace said, replacing Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled in order to Singapore following months of protests against your pet. Wickremesinghe, 73, had taken his oath of office before key justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Wickremesinghe’sContinue Reading
Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Friday sworn in as acting president to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa.Continue Reading