TOKYO: Japan’s electricity grid creaked on Thursday (Jun 30) under the strain of Tokyo’s hottest June since information began, but a power crunch that could have deprived tens of a lot of electricity was directly averted and authorities prepared to lift alerts. Temperature ranges of nearly 40 degrees Celsius hadContinue Reading
HK: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong Thursday (Jun 30) to attend celebrations tagging the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain in order to China. Xi travelled in to the city by high-speed train, the first time they have left mainland China and taiwan since theContinue Reading
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
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
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
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government has set a ceiling price of RM9.40 per kg for standard chicken from Jul 1. The maximum retail price of standard chicken in Malaysia is currently at RM8.90 per kg. These are chickens that have been processed, and are sold with head, feet and organs.Continue Reading
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan doctors and other medical staff as well as teachers will take to the streets on Wednesday (Jun 29) to demand that the government solve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the South Asian country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Weeks of street demonstrations against cascadingContinue Reading