KUALA LUMPUR: Tickets for your ferry ride in between Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal in order to Desaru Coast Ferry Terminal in Johor will cost S$118 (US$84. 81) for a return trip, ferry operator Batam Fast mentioned in a press release on Thursday (Jun 30). The one-way tickets, BatamContinue Reading
Law enforcement on Tuesday announced large-scale road closures on Hong Kong isle and temporarily banned the flying of drones in the entire city, citing safety concerns. Select sites throughout the financial hub are also closed off, such as the high-speed rail terminus, a performance location for Chinese ie and HongContinue Reading
MANILA: Ferdinand Marcos Jr starts his six-year phrase as Philippines leader on Thursday (Jun 30) facing a host of difficulties, from rising pumpiing and COVID-19 outbreak recovery to balancing relations between competing superpowers the United States and China. The 64-year-old, who may be allowed only one phrase in the topContinue Reading
MANILA: The son of the Philippines’ late dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be sworn in as leader Thursday (Jun 30), completing a decades-long effort to restore the clan to the country’s highest office. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, sixty four, won last month’s elections by a landslide, securing the biggest victory sinceContinue Reading
The Philippines strongman is retiring after a career fighting drugs and crime that left thousands dead.Continue Reading
SEOUL: Southern Korea said on Thursday (Jun 30) that its Minimal Wage Commission had agreed on an minimal hourly wage raise of 5 % to 9, 620 won (US$7. 39) for next year, in the first such decision since President Yoon Suk-yeol took workplace in May. The pay hike willContinue Reading
MADRID: The market leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday (Jun 29) expressed deep problem over North Korea’s missile tests plus said they would work more closely to address the threat posed by Pyongyang. US Leader Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Southern KoreanContinue Reading
KYIV: Indonesian Leader Joko Widodo offered on Wednesday (Jun 29) to deliver a message from Ukrainian Chief executive Volodymr Zelenskyy in order to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to try to boost peacefulness hopes . It was not immediately clear exactly how Zelenskyy responded to the particular offer made by JokowiContinue Reading
TAIPEI: A senior Taiwanese security official has contracted COVID-19 but has only light symptoms and has not had recent contact with President Tsai Ing-wen, the presidential office said on Wednesday (Jun 29). Wellington Koo, Secretary-General of the National Security Council, was confirmed positive by a rapid test after developing symptomsContinue Reading
BEIJING: Online searches for Chinese airline tickets on domestic and international routes surged on Wednesday (Jun 29), after Beijing said it would slash COVID-19 quarantine requirements and made changes to a state-mandated mobile app used for local travel. The unexpected moves mark a significant easing of rigid curbs that haveContinue Reading