KABUL: Afghan broadcaster Tolo News on Wednesday (Mar 8) aired an all-female panel in its studio with an audience of women to mark International Women’s Day, a rare broadcast since the Taliban took over and many female journalists left the profession or started working off-air. A survey by Reporters WithoutContinue Reading
The Chinese government is seriously concerned by a potential meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy, who originally planned to visit Taipei, said Tuesday that he will meet Tsai in the US this year. He stressed that such an arrangement does not preclude his trip to Taiwan in […]Continue Reading
Thailand and Japan are preparing to begin the first-phase construction of a high-speed rail project linking Bangkok with the northern province of Chiang Mai.Continue Reading
TikTok has launched security measures to allay concerns it could be made to share user data with China.Continue Reading
Anwar’s office and the MACC did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Anwar and Mr Muhyiddin went head-to-head in a tightly contested election in November that resulted in a hung parliament as neither candidate won a parliamentary majority. Malaysia’s constitutional monarch, King Al-Sultan Abdullah, then appointed Anwar as primeContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: HKP Food Technology, a supplier of the Ho Kee Pau chain, was fined S$8,500 on Wednesday (Mar 8) for hygiene lapses at its food manufacturing premises. In a news release, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said its officers inspected the company’s food manufacturing establishment at Block 3015 Bedok NorthContinue Reading
The Pheu Thai Party on Wednesday said it would welcome back with open arms the Sam Mitr faction if it defects from the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), the ruling party, ahead of the general election.Continue Reading
Overdevelopment, deforestation and dumping of trash in rivers may also have led to the massive floods across Johor.
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Ten years ago, when China’s leader first took power, Xi Jinping pledged to let market forces play a “decisive” role in economic policy and financial regulation. At the time, and since, foreign investors assumed that meant the government would set the private sector free. Yet a decade on, Xi is now making an argument few […]Continue Reading
MANILA: The Philippines’ agriculture department on Wednesday (Mar 8) confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in central Cebu province, and has deployed response teams to detect the extent of infection. The department’s Bureau of Animal Industry said 58 out of 149 blood samples from Carcar City in Cebu testedContinue Reading