SINGAPORE – A refrigerated container that was declared as containing fresh cabbages and potatoes at the Pasir Panjang Scanning Station was on Tuesday (June 18) found to contain bottles of duty-unpaid beer instead. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a Facebook post that officers discovered a total of 165 cartons and 1,575 bottles […]
HONG KONG — Thousands of protesters blocked a thoroughfare outside Hong Kong’s government offices and surrounded the police headquarters on Friday, adding new pressure on the city’s leader to withdraw an unpopular bill that has thrown the territory into a political crisis. The demonstrators, mostly teenagers and people in their 20s and dressed in black, […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s benchmark overnight repo rate fell to a four-year low of nearly 1 percent on Friday as the central bank continued to inject funds into money markets to ensure ample liquidity ahead of a seasonal surge in cash demand at the end of June. Typical market jitters over liquidity at this time […]
For more than a month, Rajeshwari, a 42-year-old temple elephant in India, lay desultorily on a patch of sand, her forelimb and femur broken and her body ravaged by sores. An animal lover went to the court, seeking to put her down. The court said the pachyderm could be “euthanised” after the vets examined her. […]
Animal rights activists in India have criticised a plan by the Assam state government to send four elephants on a perilous train journey of more than 3,100km (1,926 miles) to participate in a temple ritual. They say the long journey could be dangerous for the animals and may even kill them, writes the BBC’s Geeta […]
HONG KONG – Protesters have blocked the main road outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters on Friday (June 21), after vowing to escalate matters on Friday and cut off access to the roads surrounding the government central offices in Tamar, Admiralty, until their list of demands are met. Hundreds of mostly young black-clad protesters flooded onto Harcourt Road – a major artery […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Foxconn chairman Terry Gou said on Friday (June 21) that he will hand over the running of the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer to a new operations committee, as he prepares to contest Taiwan’s presidential elections next year. The 68-year-old Foxconn founder was speaking at the company’s annual general meeting in Taipei, […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Temel Atacocugu is fed up. Forced to spend most days on the couch in his Christchurch home, he is beginning a long recovery from the nine gunshot wounds he suffered in March when a terrorist fired on Muslim worshipers in this New Zealand city. Again and again, Mr. Atacocugu has asked […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walmart Inc has agreed to pay a total penalty of $282 million to settle charges by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission that its Brazilian unit violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The retailer will pay more than $144 million to settle charges by the SEC and approximately […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed this week to meet at the G20 summit in Japan in late June to discuss how to end a nearly year-long trade war. Trade talks between the United States and China broke down in early May when Trump accused Beijing of making a […]