SINGAPORE: Former Sakae Holdings director Ong Siew Kwee went on trial on Monday (Mar 13) over the alleged misappropriation of S$15.8 million from a joint venture. The 52-year-old Ong, also known as Andy, claimed trial to one charge each of criminal breach of trust, abetting the forgery of a leaseContinue Reading
The closing ceremony of the Two Sessions of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on Monday saw President Xi Jinping’s next-generation leaders finally enunciated and endorsed on lines that had became public after the 20th Party Congress last October. Also, the imprint of Xi’s uncontested leadership was writ large over these […]Continue Reading
Xi Jinping’s new deputy says efforts have to be redoubled to meet the country’s 5% growth target.Continue Reading
Insurgents says junta soldiers shelled the village before killing survivors hiding in a monastery.Continue Reading
HONG KONG: Top Chinese property developer Country Garden Holdings said on Monday (Mar 13) it expected to post its first net loss since listing in 2007 due to a sluggish property market and flagged a worse-than-feared drop in core profit. China’s top homebuilder by sales was the latest in aContinue Reading
BANGKOK – More than 3,800 US troops led 30 countries’ forces and observers through Cobra Gold, the Pentagon’s biggest Asian military exercise, which came to a live-fire drill end on March 10. The 42nd iteration of Exercise Cobra Gold is robust again after dwindling for three years during Covid’s spread. Reports indicate the US sent […]Continue Reading
Unhealthy levels of fine dust remained high in the northern provinces on Monday, held there by stagnant air, while a southerly wind was easing the pollution in Greater Bangkok.Continue Reading
The French government gave 1,000,200 doses of Moderna bivalent Covid-19 vaccine to Thailand on Monday.Continue Reading
Rapidus, Japan’s advanced logic foundry venture company, has chosen Chitose as the site for a new 5 trillion yen (US$37 billion) semiconductor production facility, a move that will pull the island nation’s northernmost region more firmly into its technology supply chain. Chitose, located 40 kilometers and 30 minutes by express train southeast of Sapporo on […]Continue Reading
PATTANI: A young woman looking for a missing cat found a bomb fixed beneath her aunty’s car in the garage of their house in Mayo district on Saturday night.Continue Reading