TAIPEI: Chinese President Xi Jinping would become a “sinner” of all Chinese people if he attacked Taiwan and would not win a war as he would face international sanctions and diplomatic isolation, Taiwan’s top security official said on Thursday (Oct 20). China has ramped up military and political pressure againstContinue Reading
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will hold its 15th General Election (GE15) on Nov 19, said the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday (Oct 20). Nomination Day will be on Nov 5, while early voting is set to be held on Nov 15, said EC chairman Abdul Ghani Salleh. On Oct 10, caretaker primeContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: After he lost his job and his mother had to stop working as a Grab driver due to an accident, a man decided to steal sport items from Decathlon. Though he was under a driving ban, 27-year-old Lee Kia Seng drove his mother’s car to a Decathlon outlet, whereContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Chinese President Xi Jinping would become a “sinner” of all Chinese people if he attacked Taiwan and would not win a war as he would face international sanctions and diplomatic isolation, Taiwan’s top security official said on Thursday (Oct 20). China has ramped up military and political pressure againstContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The US government is considering a plan to jointly produce weapons with Taiwan, a business lobby said on Wednesday (Oct 19), an initiative intended to speed up arms transfers to bolster Taipei’s deterrence against China. US presidents have approved more than US$20 billion in weapons sales to Taiwan sinceContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Some medicinal syrups available in Indonesia contained ingredients linked to fatal acute kidney injury (AKI) in children, its health minister said on Thursday (Oct 20), as it investigates a spike in cases and 99 child deaths this year. Indonesia has temporarily banned sales of all syrup-based medications and hasContinue Reading
People sensed the tremors caused by three earthquakes in the northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Phrae early Thursday morning.Continue Reading
The much-vaunted economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic was short-lived. The global economy is now once more in the midst of a slowdown – the sharpest after any post-recession recovery since 1970. In this context, there is a growing recognition in Europe that the burgeoning Chinese economy can be seen from two angles. From a […]Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: After finding a credit card on a road, an officer with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) took urgent half-day leave and used the credit card to top up his EZ-Link card and buy a gold ring. Seah Guo Rong, 36, was sentenced on Thursday (Oct 20) to eight months’Continue Reading
The term has only ever been used for the country’s founding father and briefly, his successor.Continue Reading