The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit is historic in more than one sense. The fact that the meeting is Chinese premier Xi Jinping’s first trip abroad since 2020 conveys some of its significance. It is also the first time that the group of Eurasian leaders will have met in person since the start of Russia’s […]
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SEPANG: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah departed for London, United Kingdom, on Friday (Sept 16) to pay his last respects to Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Sept 8. Read full storyContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: China’s yuan weakened past the psychologically important 7 per U.S. dollar level for the first time in two years on Friday, pressured by a buoyant dollar and strong market expectations for an even more aggressive U.S. interest rate hike next week. Read full storyContinue Reading
Thailand’s eighth confirmed monkeypox case is a 23-year-old Thai service provider who returned from Qatar on Tuesday, the chief of the Department of Disease Control said on Friday.Continue Reading
TAIPEI (Reuters) – 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, as the government continues to ease controls put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19. Read full storyContinue Reading
Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders’ summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Thursday.Continue Reading
A total of 20 films, 18 from China and two Malaysian, will be shown at Dadi Cinema Pavilion Kuala Lumpur throughout the festival. Read full storyContinue Reading
The man had gone to Geylang to look for sex but could not find a “suitable” sex worker as he felt the prices were too high, said the prosecution.Continue Reading
NONTHABURI: A police station chief has confirmed that a teenage student was killed by the accidental discharge of another student’s gun in a computer classroom in Bang Bua Thong district on Thursday, not by an exploding keyboard as a teacher initially reported.Continue Reading
To date, 117 from 606 Ang Mo Kio SERS households have applied for a new flat in possibly the May or August 2022 BTO or SBF workouts, HDB said upon Friday in response to mass media queries. Among these households, 107 households applied for a BTO level across six ofContinue Reading