OSAKA, Japan — President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China agreed on Saturday to resume trade talks after a seven-week breakdown, averting for now an escalation of their multibillion-dollar tariff war that has roiled global markets and threatened the future of the world’s two largest economies. The agreement, brokered during more than an hour […]
SINGAPORE – The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board responded on Friday (June 28) to a Facebook post put up by a father, who said he was disallowed from using his CPF funds for his daughter’s education. In his post on Wednesday, Lim Koh Leong recounted his experience when he talked to staff members at the […]
BUNGA TANJUNG, Indonesia — The men came at Hope and her baby with spears and guns. But she would not leave. There was no place for her to go. When the air-gun pellets pierced Hope’s eyes, blinding her, she felt her way up the tree trunks, auburn-furred fingers searching out tropical fruit for sustenance. By […]
KUALA LUMPUR – An Umno leader has ribbed anti-graft chief Latheefa Koya on why she had so “many stars and medals” on her uniform when she only joined the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) less than a month ago. Umno’s supreme council member Lokman Adam asked on his Facebook account: “It is curious… how is it […]
HONG KONG/BEIJING • Several Huawei Technologies employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer ties to the country’s military than previously acknowledged by the smartphone and networking powerhouse. Over the past decade, Huawei workers have teamed up with members of various organs of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on at […]
OSAKA (AFP, BLOOMBERG) – Nineteen members of the Group of 20, without the United States, agreed on Saturday (June 29) to the “irreversibility” of the Paris climate deal and pledged its full implementation, after two days of talks. The language in the final statement after the summit in Japan’s Osaka mirrors that agreed during last […]
SINGAPORE – The contributions of 1,690 blood donors and community partners were honoured on Saturday (June 29) at the 16th World Blood Donor Day and Champion Blood Donor Recognition Ceremony at Downtown East. Last year (2018), 73,280 donors contributed almost 116,000 units of blood, enabling more than 29,000 patients to receive life-saving blood transfusion. At […]
SINGAPORE – All past and present national servicemen (NSmen) will be able to enjoy discounts and promotions at shopping malls, restaurants, hawker centres and attractions islandwide from Monday (July 1). These include up to 50 per cent off Levi’s jeans as well as Kallang Ice World entrance fees, and WE Cinemas movie tickets at a […]
Japan is about to resume catching whales for profit, in defiance of international criticism. Its last commercial hunt was in 1986, but Japan has never really stopped whaling – it has been conducting instead what it says are research missions which catch hundreds of whales annually. But Japan has now withdrawn from the International Whaling […]
President Trump has invited North Korea leader Kim Jong-un – on Twitter – to meet him at the fortified frontier that divides North and South Korea. The US leader is due to visit South Korea after the G20 summit in Japan. He arrives in Seoul on Saturday for a two-day trip aimed at rescuing foundering […]