Mr Ismail Sabri also said that parliament was dissolved so that the people could elect a new government. But this decision has been misunderstood by the opposition, he said. “When parliament is dissolved, the opposition should be pleased as there were many accusations about the government’s legitimacy,” he said, accordingContinue Reading
Chinese real estate developers are desperate to recover from the prolonged lockdowns driven by China’s zero-Covid policy. But the slowdown in home sales is also related to the collapse of household confidence in the country’s real estate market. The mortgage boycott in China is a direct consequence of the bankruptcies of an increasing number of developers. […]Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: After hearing that his ex-girlfriend was getting married, a man went to the groom’s home in the early hours of their wedding day in order to start a fire. Surenthiran Sugumaran, 30, pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Oct 18) to one count of mischief by fire, with a second chargeContinue Reading
The Marcos family is back in power after 36 years. Its return is a dangerous moment for democracy in the Philippines. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr was elected in a landslide victory in May, gathering more than 30.8 million votes and winning almost 60% of the vote. This was the Philippines’ first majority victory in decades. Marcos […]Continue Reading
Police in Manchester said “due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers intervened and removed the victim from the consulate grounds”. The victim spent the night in hospital for treatment and an investigation is ongoing, police added in a statement. Alicia Kearns, a lawmaker in the rulingContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japan and Australia seek to reach a new security agreement with particular regard to China’s maritime expansion when the two countries’ prime ministers meet in Perth on Saturday (Oct 22), Japan’s Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. The two US allies have been fortifying security ties as a counterbalanceContinue Reading
Western observers are mistaken in their tendency to overlook Turkmenistan, a resource-rich, strategically consequential country that borders such key regional players as Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and has a long coastline on the Caspian Sea. The country serves as one of the most important east-west and north-south transport and logistics hubs in Eurasia. Oddly, neither […]Continue Reading
SAMUT PRAKAN: Stolen goods worth about 10 million baht were recovered when police arrested a suspected house burglar at his condominium room on Monday night.Continue Reading
While Joe Biden is trying to calm concerns about recession and Christine Lagarde is scaring markets with quantitative easing (QE), the central banks of South Korea and Japan are pleasing investors in their own way. Starting with the “Land of the Rising Sun,” despite Japan’s 2.84 trillion yen (US$19.7 billion) intervention in the foreign-exchange market in the […]Continue Reading
Opening on October 16, 2022, China’s 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is virtually certain to see general secretary Xi Jinping confirmed as China’s top leader for a third term. This will mark yet another step in China’s steady slide towards a more personalist regime centered on a single individual. In the near […]Continue Reading