TOKYO: Un Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday (Aug 8) that this risk of nuclear confrontation had came back after decades, askin nuclear states to commit to no first use of the weapons. Any attack on a nuclear vegetable is a “suicidal thing”, Guterres said, responding to reports of renewedContinue Reading
HONG KONG: Authorities in Macao instructed residents to conduct at least two days of COVID-19 tests after an individual who travelled from the Chinese language special administrative region to neighbouring town Zhuhai was found to have been infected with the virus. The move comes days after Macao started to unwindContinue Reading
SEOUL: Northern Korea will convene two key meetings, including one to review the country’s anti-epidemic policy, in arriving weeks, state press said on Monday (Aug 8), as it claims no new COVID-19 cases given that late July. The North Korean Supreme Individuals Assembly (SPA), the particular state’s parliament, will meetContinue Reading
The state’s inflation rate had been 4. 94 per cent in July, the best in seven years. The underlying factors range from the low supply of goods, high prices of imported materials and the Ukraine war.Continue Reading
China also sent at least one jingle over Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands, forcing troops to respond with flares, local authorities said. China’s defence ministry did not respond to a request for comment about the expected conclusion of the exercises. A Taiwan defence ministry official informed reporters to “ask the countryContinue Reading
BEIJING: When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year’s summer holiday in 2021, she chose the tropical southern island of Hainan because of its nigh-perfect COVID-19 track record. The island in the South China Sea recorded just two positive symptomatic COVID-19 cases in the whole of last year. Fast forwardContinue Reading
BANGKOK: Thai police have detained the owner of a nightclub in connection with a fire at the venue that killed 15 people, officers confirmed on Sunday (Aug 7). The blaze erupted around 1am on Friday at the Mountain B nightspot in Chonburi province’s Sattahip district, roughly 150km southeast of Bangkok.Continue Reading
TAIPEI: Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high-seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday (Aug 7), hours before the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi’s visit last week to the self-ruled island infuriatedContinue Reading
China has shortened the suspension time meant for inbound international plane tickets on routes discovered to have COVID-19 instances starting on Sunday (Aug 7). The nation’s aviation regulator stated in a statement upon Sunday that flights on a route having an identified coronavirus case will be suspended for one weekContinue Reading
The Selangor chapter of Barisan Lokal wants to recapture Malaysia’s richest and most industrialised state, which it lost to the resistance in the 2008 common election.Continue Reading