TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil fell on Thursday, erasing some of the previous session’s strong gains, as traders await the G20 summit in Japan and a meeting of OPEC and other oil producers to decide on an extension of output cuts. Brent crude futures were down 19 cents, or 0.3%, at $66.30 by 0256 GMT. U.S. […]
Inside a lab in Temasek Polytechnic, dozens of mud crabs are scuttling, feeding and breeding – to meet Singaporeans’ insatiable appetite for chilli crab and black pepper crab. Due to overharvesting and bad weather conditions brought on by global warming, the mud crab populations in countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, where Singapore […]
WASHINGTON — When President Trump meets President Xi Jinping of China this week to discuss contentious trade issues, they will face each other in another nation that was once the United States’ main commercial rival, seen as a threat to American dominance. But the competition between the United States and Japan, which hosts the Group […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that a trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping was possible this weekend but he is prepared to impose U.S. tariffs on virtually all remaining Chinese imports if the two countries continue to disagree. Trump, who departed for the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan […]
(Reuters) – European shares eased in low volumes on Wednesday, pulled down by disappointment about U.S. Federal Reserve comments on interest rate cuts overnight as well as mixed signals from Washington on the Sino-U.S. trade dispute. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.3% as it extended losses to a fourth day, on course to end […]
BOSTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of employees of Wayfair Inc are expected to walk off the job on Wednesday in protest of what they said was the retailer’s sale of more than $200,000 in bedroom furniture for a Texas detention facility for migrant children. The protest, in the online furniture retailer’s home city of Boston, marks […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar rose on Wednesday as traders scaled back expectations of an aggressive interest rate decrease next month after comments from Federal Reserve officials that such a move may not be warranted at this time. The greenback and the euro strengthened against the yen after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was […]
BEIJING — It is not at all that rare for censors to wreak havoc on films here in China — cutting, say, several scenes from “Bohemian Rhapsody” depicting Freddie Mercury’s homosexuality. The latest movie to seemingly fall afoul of censorship, however, is a big-budget Chinese film of the sort that has long been a staple […]
Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to two years in prison over handling of 2003 programme. A court in Thailand has sentenced exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to two years in prison over his handling of a state lottery scheme he launched while in office more than a decade ago. His conviction […]
SINGAPORE – A SBS Transit double-decker bus crashed into the shelter of a taxi stand at Bishan MRT Station during the morning rush hour on Wednesday (June 26), damaging it. A witness by the name of Kelvin who was in the vehicle behind the bus shared the in-car camera recording of the incident, which took […]