WUHAN, China (NYTIMES) – Days of turbulent street protests against an incinerator project in Wuhan, south-central China’s largest city, have prompted the local government to assure residents it has no plans to build the facility any time soon. But authorities have also deployed large numbers of riot police in Wuhan, and are warning of harsh […]
A year ago, during an unprecedented ceasefire, Afghan forces and the Taliban put down their weapons to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid. As talks over the country’s future continue, do those who came together feel any closer to a lasting peace? For three days in June 2018, men long dedicated to killing each other […]
SYDNEY (NYTIMES) – A video game that uses footage of the Christchurch massacre to put Muslims in a gunman’s crosshairs. Memes featuring the face and weapons of the man charged in that New Zealand attack. Messages on online forums that glorify him as St Tarrant – patron saint of the far right. New Zealand has […]
With upgrading works more than halfway done on Singapore’s two oldest MRT lines, their reliability continues to show improvement, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. The North-South Line now clocks more than 1.4 million km between delays of more than five minutes, putting it on a par with top-performing rail systems such as Hong […]
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai wrote an anonymous diary about life under Taliban rule in north-west Pakistan. She was shot in the head by militants for daring to go to school. In 2014 she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Accepting the award in Oslo she said she was “humbled” and […]
Now that President Joko Widodo’s resounding win in the April polls is official, attention has shifted to his Cabinet line-up and how bold his choices may be. Mr Joko, who is known popularly as Jokowi, has promised to reform the government so that his ambitious infrastructure and economic programmes can be implemented promptly during his […]
PETALING JAYA • Former AirAsia chairman Pahamin Ab Rajab and his five partners who are keen to take over Malaysia Airlines have given their assurance that there will be no job cuts should the government accept their plan to turn around the ailing airline. Despite many turnarounds, the national carrier has failed to be profitable […]
WELLINGTON • Google agreed yesterday to change how it publishes New Zealand news after Wellington lashed out at it for breaching court orders in a murder case. The social media firm had refused to tighten publication standards after sending a news e-mail to subscribers last December that named an accused killer, in violation of a […]
The crocodile found in a Sungei Kadut drain last month may have been fleeing a territorial fight or was relocating from Malaysia, wildlife experts told The Straits Times. The 3.4m estuarine crocodile – one of the largest ever spotted in Singapore – was caught and transferred to a crocodile farm on June 21 by the […]
Hong Kong’s embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam has asked to meet students and others, in what appears to be a move to mitigate tensions that have been building up between the city’s leadership and protesters. Mrs Lam reportedly reached out to the students’ unions of at least two universities – Hong Kong University of Science […]