Taiwan eyeing earlier end to COVID-19 quarantine for arrivals
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
An Uzbek vision for a united Eurasia
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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King, Queen leave for UK to pay last respects to Queen Elizabeth II
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
New monkeypox case is returnee from Qatar
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
China's yuan weakens past key 7/dlr mark for first time in 2 years
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
Taiwan eyeing earlier end to COVID quarantine for arrivals
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
US concerned about ‘deepening relationship’ between China, Russia after Xi Jinping meets Vladimir Putin
Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders’ summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Thursday.Continue Reading
China Film Festival 2022 to boost Malaysia-China relations through film industry
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
Man carried off sleeping sex worker in Geylang for ‘forced illicit intercourse’, gets jail and caning
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
Police confirm accidental gunshot killed student, not keyboard explosion
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