SEOUL: China’s top legislator, Li Zhanshu, called on Friday (Sep 16) for more cooperation with South Korea on cutting-edge technologies and supply chain issues. Li, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, was speaking in Seoul after meeting his South Korean counterpart, parliament speaker Kim Jin-pyo. Li was alsoContinue Reading
The Commons speaker reportedly refused access to Westminster Hall after Chinese sanctions on UK MPs and peers.Continue Reading
TOKYO – There’s something surreal about the debate at Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters over whether to jump into markets to support the yen. Japan’s central bank faces the most intense pressure in more than two decades to intervene in currency trading, but unlike previous pressure campaigns, the BOJ isn’t being prodded to weaken the yen […]
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SINGAPORE: A higher rate of workplace fatalities was reported in the first half of 2022, even as the number of reported workplace injuries fell, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Friday (Sep 16). There were 28 workplace deaths in the first half of the year, bringing the 6-month fatality rateContinue Reading
The access key to obtain MyRepublic’s customer data could be found on a publicly accessible webpage.Continue Reading
BANGKOK: Thai police have charged a soldier with murder over a shooting at a military training facility that left two people dead and another wounded, officials said on Friday (Sep 16). Sergeant Major Yongyuth Mungkornkim, a clerk at the Royal Thai Army War College, will stand trial in a military courtContinue Reading
For months the population of 22 million has struggled with power cuts, rampant inflation, a plummeting rupee and a shortage of foreign exchange reserves that made it difficult to pay for imports of food, fuel and medicine. Mullaitivu is Sri Lanka’s second poorest district, with 58 per cent of householdsContinue Reading
The United Kingdom became one of the most popular destinations for Hong Kongers after it announced a visa scheme that provided a pathway to citizenship, arguing Beijing had abandoned its pre-handover promise to allow residents key freedoms and autonomy. So far more than 140,000 people have applied under the BritishContinue Reading
Iran tested this month its indigenously-produced Fath 360 satellite-guided ballistic missile during military exercises, an apparent bid to match America’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) that has been deployed with lethal success in Ukraine. Fars News reported last week that Iran tested its Fath 360 short-range surface-to-surface missile and performed combined arms operations with […]
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TAIPEI: Taiwan is eyeing an earlier end to its mandatory quarantine for all arrivals and has been making relevant preparations, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday (Sep 16), as the government continues to ease controls put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19. Taiwan has kept its entry andContinue Reading