SYDNEY, Australia — A video game that uses footage of the Christchurch massacre to put Muslims in a gunman’s cross hairs. 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 […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Even as record highs this week in the major U.S. stock indexes telegraph confidence on Wall Street, caution abounds in other U.S. markets, where falling bond yields and flailing small-cap stocks indicate investors are torn about where to place bets. Hints from Federal Reserve policymakers that the central bank will cut […]
India’s first full-time female finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has presented her maiden annual budget. The BBC’s Aakriti Thapar explains what the major announcements were and what they mean for India. This is the first budget since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide victory in the general election this year. There were big expectations because it came […]
A former police general who oversaw the bloodiest years of the Philippines’ war on drugs shrugged off the killing by police of a 3-year-old girl in a sting operation, saying on Thursday the world was not perfect and “s**t happens”. Ronald dela Rosa, a senator who once led the crackdown that has killed thousands of […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian government on Friday said it will consider further liberalizing foreign direct investment (FDI) rules in certain sectors, part of its efforts to make Asia’s third-largest economy a more attractive investment destination. Presenting the annual budget for 2019/20, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would hold discussions with stakeholders […]
SINGAPORE – Items suspected to be gun parts were found in a parcel, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Friday (July 5). In a Facebook post, ICA said that the items were uncovered when an officer noted anomalies in the scanned images of a parcel at the Airmail Transit Centre on June 29. […]
BEIJING – Mr S. Iswaran is on his first official visit to China as Minister for Communications and Information, where he met senior government officials and visited some Chinese companies to get a first-hand update on developments in the tech industry. His five-day trip which ends on Saturday (July 6) has taken him to Beijing […]
(Reuters) – European shares snapped its six-day winning streak on Friday as industrial stocks slid after Sweden’s Hexagon gave a downbeat outlook blaming the U.S.-China trade war and investors stayed cautious ahead of a crucial U.S. jobs data. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.3% by 0815 GMT, but was still set for its […]
SINGAPORE – With upgrading works more than halfway done, the reliability of Singapore’s two oldest MRT lines continues to show improvement, said Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan on Friday (July 5). The North-South Line now clocks 1,435,000km between delays, putting it on a par with top performing rail systems such as Hong Kong’s MTR […]
SINGAPORE – President Halimah Yacob launched the Istana Cookies on Friday (July 5) morning at Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN) Katong School to commemorate the Istana’s 150th anniversary. Made in a collaboration between the President’s Office and The Pine Garden bakery, the Istana Cookies contain ingredients derived from spices and fruits found on […]