COLOMBO: Japan, one of Sri Lanka’s main creditors, will back the South Asian nation as it seeks to restructure about US$30 billion of its foreign debt and find a way out of a crippling economic crisis, Tokyo’s envoy to the country said on Friday (Sep 23). Reaching an agreement withContinue Reading
HANOI: Vietnam’s finance ministry on Friday (Sep 23) said it is proposing to the legislature cutting the special consumption tax and value-added tax on fuels to keep inflation under 4 per cent this year. The move will follow this week’s decision by the central bank to raise policy rates andContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been given medical clearance to return to prison after completing rehabilitative treatment at a Kuala Lumpur hospital, the health ministry said on Friday (Sep 23). Bernama reported that he was sent back to Kajang Prison the same day. Najib, 69, startedContinue Reading
HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific Airways on Friday (Sep 23) said it plans to add more than 200 pairs of passenger flights in October to both regional and long-haul destinations. The announcement came after Hong Kong government said to scrap its controversial COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from SepContinue Reading
TAIPEI: The Chinese blockade of Taiwan or the seizure of an offshore isle would be considered a good act of war and Taiwan may not surrender, an older Taiwanese security formal told Reuters making use of unusually strong and direct language. While Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and others in herContinue Reading
KATHMANDU: Twenty-three foreign visitors landed in Bhutan on Friday (Sep 23), the first to turn up as the Himalayan empire reopened its edges after more than two years following the COVID-19 pandemic, with officials seeking to tourism to help revive the local economy. Wedged between China and India, the countryContinue Reading
SYDNEY: Australia is aiming for a stable relationship with China despite differences specifically on trade, Australia’s foreign minister said, as she called on China to utilize its influence as a great power to help end the war in Ukraine . Australia’s ties with its largest trading partner are at aContinue Reading
PHNOM PENH: A lot more than 20 Chinese nationals are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said upon Friday (Sep 23). The particular boat carrying 41 Chinese people had difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, provincial spokesman Kheang Phearom told AFP, in support ofContinue Reading
PHNOM PENH: One person died and more than 20 are missing at sea after a boat carrying Chinese nationals sank off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday (Sep 23). The boat with 41 Chinese people on board got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, Preah Sihanouk provincial spokesman Kheang PhearomContinue Reading
Viral on the web essays slamming the attack as representational of the country’s bigger problem of gender-based violence were censored. The particular court said a police investigation following the attack found that will Chen had been the ringleader of a bunch that “menaced the particular public”, and that he previouslyContinue Reading