MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government must address concerns flagged by rating agencies over the sustainability of the country’s finances following debt downgrades last week, Mexican Central Bank Governor Alejandro Diaz de Leon said on Tuesday. Fitch last week cut Mexico’s sovereign credit rating and then became the first major ratings agency to downgrade the […]
HONG KONG — Protesters in Hong Kong, angered by the government’s refusal to back down on a contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, gathered near government offices again Tuesday and planned more action this week as lawmakers resume debate on the legislation. Lawmakers are likely to vote on the bill by the […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Indian authorities on Tuesday (June 11) spotted the wreckage of a plane missing with 13 air force personnel aboard after days of searching a remote mountainous region close to China. The Soviet-built AN-32 plane, carrying eight crew and five passengers, disappeared from radar on June 3 in the north-eastern state of […]
MQM party leader Altaf Hussain is one of Pakistan’s longest-serving and most powerful and divisive politicians. Mr Hussain lives in self-imposed exile in London, and has run his party from a nondescript office block in the northern suburb of Edgware since 1992. He addresses mass rallies in the southern city of Karachi by a conference […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China will respond firmly if the United States insists on escalating trade tensions, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday (June 11) after US President Donald Trump said further tariffs were ready to kick in if no deal was reached at June’s G-20 summit. Trump has repeatedly said he is getting ready to meet Chinese […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Indian authorities on Tuesday (June 11) deployed hundreds of police and suspended the Internet in a northern town where the brutal murder of a two-year-old girl has flared up inter-religious tensions. The Hindu girl was killed over an unpaid loan of US$144 (S$196). Her badly mutilated body was discovered on a […]
LONDON, (Reuters) – British wages in the three months to April grew faster than expected and hiring slowed less sharply, as the jobless rate held at its lowest rate since 1975, official figures showed on Tuesday. Total earnings growth, including bonuses, rose by an annual 3.1% in the three months to April, official data showed, […]
SINGAPORE – With a $20 note commemorating the bicentennial out of stock at many bank branches on Monday (June 10) when it went on sale, more than 400 new listings of the bill have sprung up on online marketplaces at marked-up prices on Tuesday. While many sellers offer the notes for marked-up prices of between […]
KOLKATA (AFP) – Three people died in fresh political violence between members of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party and a local rival in restive West Bengal state, authorities said Tuesday (June 11). Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress – which runs the state – have accused each other […]
On the afternoon of 27 November, half-a-dozen plainclothes policemen in a couple of vehicles arrived at the two-storey home of a journalist with a cable news network in Manipur, a hilly north-eastern state on the border with Myanmar (Burma). The policemen told Kishorechandra Wangkhem, 39, that the city’s police chief wanted to have a word […]