A Singaporean man who was seen switching vehicle licence plates on his gold BMW 320i in May this year has been fined RM8,000 (S$2,620). Tan Hock Lai, 44, pleaded guilty in court in Johor Baru on Monday (July 8). The incident took place at around 7.30am on May 18 at a petrol station in Gelang […]
A South Korean man has defected to North Korea, say media reports, in a very rare case of someone seeking to live in the authoritarian state. Choe In-guk is the son of two high level diplomats who also defected to the North in the 1980s. According to North Korean state media he will live in […]
HONG KONG (ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The old order is broken. No less than Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the neoliberal order “obsolete.” We now have to think the unthinkable – every dream has turned into a nightmare – the land of the free no longer seems to welcome anyone, while the freest economy […]
At least 29 people have been killed after a bus they were travelling in went off an expressway in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The crash happened early on Monday near the city of Agra, 336km (208 miles) from the state capital, Lucknow. The bus was carrying around 50 people and travelling from […]
At least 53 people were killed and several others injured when a packed bus went off a road in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Officials told BBC Telugu the speeding bus veered off the narrow village road after the driver lost control. They added that 86 people were travelling on the bus although it […]
BEIJING (AFP) – Caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war, Chinese students are looking for alternative study destinations – threatening to turn off an important source of revenue for American universities. China accounts for nearly a third of foreign students on US campuses who pour billions of dollars into the economy, but in […]
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Most Japanese approve of the government’s decision to tighten controls on exports to South Korea of specialist materials vital to its tech industry, a poll showed Monday (July 8), as a long-running dispute over colonial history threatens to damage business ties between the neighbours. Some 58 per cent of respondents to the […]
Protesters in Hong Kong took their message to a new audience yesterday – mainland Chinese tourists – because coverage of the anti-government movement has been heavily censored by Beijing authorities. Thousands marched through popular tourist areas in the first major demonstration since last Monday, when a small group of protesters seized the city’s legislature. Organisers […]
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Chinese authorities have dismissed rumours on social media that the Three Gorges Dam is breaking and poses a threat to the local population, saying the dam’s structural integrity is intact and its various functions are operating properly. A team of safety experts from China Three Gorges Corporation, the dam’s […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core machinery orders fell by the most in eight months in a worrying sign that global trade tensions are taking a toll on corporate investment, casting doubt that solid domestic demand can help offset external pressure on the export-reliant economy. Any downturn in business spending will hurt prospects for stronger wage […]