SINGAPORE – Singapore and China will be cooperating in research and development on maritime matters with an agreement signed on Thursday (July 11). The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and an agency under China’s Ministry of Transport, the Waterborne Transport Research Institute (WTI). The MOU […]

SINGAPORE – Regional defence ministers agreed at this year’s Asean Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) to extend the regional grouping’s secured hotline for rapid direct communication to eight other countries. They are Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia and the United States. Together with the 10 Asean countries, they form the expanded ADMM-Plus […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. underlying consumer prices increased by the most in nearly 1-1/2 years in June amid solid gains in the costs of a range of goods and services, but will probably not change expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this month. The Labor Department said on Thursday its consumer price index […]

SINGAPORE – Donating one’s organ to a stranger is an extraordinary act of generosity, but two brothers who did so think nothing of it. Mr Lin Hanwei, 35, and his younger brother Dilun are Singapore’s first living donors from the same family to donate to complete strangers. In May, Mr Lin donated a part of his […]

JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested Riau Islands governor Nurdin Basirun and five others during a meeting at the governor’s residence in Riau Islands on Wednesday evening (July 10). The five individuals have been identified as a regional leader, the regional administration’s maritime affairs agency head and businessmen. The […]

SINGAPORE – For the sixth year running, Singapore has clinched the top spot among the world’s maritime centres in the Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index. The Republic beat 42 other cities such as Hong Kong, which ranked second, as well as London, which ranked third. Rounding out the top five maritime centres in the […]

PARIS (Reuters) – A French tax on tech companies was definitely adopted by parliament on Thursday after the Senate approved a final version of the bill in defiance of a U.S. investigation. The vote in the opposition-controlled upper house on Thursday showed the issue had met transpartisan support in France. The tax is due to […]

BEIJING (REUTERS) – The heaviest average rainfall to lash a swathe of southern and eastern China in more than half a century brought torrential rain and floods, destroying houses, damaging crops and forcing the evacuation of nearly 80,000 people, state media said. Even more rain is expected, state television said on Thursday (July 11), after […]

PYONGYANG (XINHUA) – The people of North Korea and China will carry forward bilateral ties cemented by the leaders of the two countries, said North Korea’s state media on Thursday (July 11), as both sides were celebrating the anniversary of the signing of a friendship treaty. The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Between […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of England Governor Mark Carney tried to bat away questions about whether he wants to succeed Christine Lagarde as head of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday, saying it was too soon to talk about it. Carney is due to stand down as BoE governor at the end of January 2020 […]