DHAKA: Bangladesh offers asked the Worldwide Monetary Fund (IMF) to start negotiations for a loan, the financial minister told the Prothom Alo paper, while adding the fact that economy was “no way in trouble”. Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said he did not specify any amount in a letter he sentContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea has held a huge mask-free public event for the first time since declaring a COVID-19 crisis in May, honouring veterans of the 1950 in order to 1953 Korean battle just days right after saying its coronavirus crisis was almost over. Photos released simply by state media onContinue Reading
HK: Hong Kong private house prices fell in a faster pace in June and decreased to the lowest considering that December 2020, public data showed upon Wednesday (Jul 27) as home purchasers stayed on the sidelines due to an unsure outlook and increasing interest rates. Home prices with the world’sContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp plans to invest twenty-seven. 1 trillion rupiah (US$1. 80 billion) in Indonesia in the next five years to produce electric vehicles (EVs), Indonesia’s economics ministry said on Wednesday (Jul 27). The Southeast Asian country seeks to become a global center for producing and exportingContinue Reading
Competitive video gaming is booming worldwide, with global e-sports revenues estimated in more than US$1 billion dollars, and many think it might one day be on the Olympics. The sector is not really as big in Japan as in e-sports-crazy China and South Korea, but it is gradually starting toContinue Reading
China and taiwan reported 703 new coronavirus cases for Jul 26, of which 120 were symptomatic and 583 had been asymptomatic, the National Health Commission stated on Wednesday. That in contrast to 976 new cases a day earlier — 148 symptomatic and 828 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. ThereContinue Reading
A hospital within Abra province had been evacuated after the creating partially collapsed, but there were no casualties reported there, officials said. Bernos posted pictures of the damaged Abra hospital on her Facebook account, which demonstrated a gaping opening in its facade. Other photos demonstrated hospital beds, which includes oneContinue Reading
COLOMBO: With no fuel and no money for food, H G Indrani and her category of nine trudged for an hour to a community kitchen in Colombo, in hopes of finding an easy vegetarian meal. Rampant food inflation and chronic shortages of cooking food gas and gas are making dailyContinue Reading
WA: Tensions over Taiwan, as well as Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine, are most likely topics for a contact expected this week among US President May well Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping, the White House said on Tuesday (Jul 26). White Home national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters thatContinue Reading
Sri Lanka’s brand new president Ranil Wickremesinghe inherits a bankrupt economy shaken by mass protests. Combined with global pressures upon food and fuel prices, Sri Lanka’s path to recovery is complicated, says foreign affairs commentator Hannan Hussain.Continue Reading