MANILA (XINHUA) – The Philippine government confirmed on Sunday (May 26) that it has banned all government officials and employees from making official trips to Canada, a move that the country is serious in diminishing diplomatic relations with Canada over the trash dispute. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea issued a memorandum dated May 20, “directing all […]
North Korea has tested several short-range missiles, according to reports from South Korea. They were fired from the Hodo peninsula in the east of the country, said South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. If confirmed, it will be the first missile launch since Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017. Last month Pyongyang […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Mr Asad Ahmed, one of about 1.2 million young Indians entering the cutthroat job market each month, diligently scribbles notes at a computer class in New Delhi. While nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a new five-year term promising to step up his campaign for a “new India”, Mr Ahmed, 18, […]
TOKYO — President Trump kicked off the first full day of a state visit to Japan on Sunday by playing down North Korea’s recent tests of short-range ballistic missiles, undercutting declarations by both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the president’s own national security adviser that the launches violated United Nations resolutions. “North Korea fired off […]
CHIBA, JAPAN (AFP) – US President Donald Trump teed off on Sunday (May 26) with “golf buddy” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the pair relaxed before official talks likely to touch on trade and North Korea. On a sweltering cloudless Tokyo morning, where the temperature was expected to climb above 30 deg C, Mr […]
TOKYO — North Korean weapons tests this month clearly violated United Nations Security Council resolutions, John R. Bolton, the White House national security adviser, said on Saturday, going further than President Trump in characterizing the tests of short-range ballistic missiles. Mr. Trump initially declared he was “not happy” with the tests but then played down […]
MUMBAI (AFP) – Indian Immigration authorities on Saturday (May 25) stopped former Jet Airways chief Naresh Goyal and his wife from travelling to London, an official said, months after the debt-laden company grounded its fleet. Goyal was taken into custody at Mumbai’s international airport along with his wife Anita after the authorities recalled the Dubai […]
SINGAPORE – To help raise money for needy students, six-year-old Davin Lim spent over 10 hours perfecting his geometric pattern drawing to be put up for auction. His mother Jasmine Lim, who works part-time at a non-profit organisation, told The Straits Times that Davin, who is in Kindergarten 2, took the task assigned to his […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – The US escalation of trade tensions won’t solve any of its problems but will create volatility in global markets and hurt the world economy, according to China’s top financial regulator. Higher US tariffs will have a “very limited” impact on China’s economy even if it raises levies to the maximum level, and […]
HELSINKI (Reuters) – European Central Bank presidential hopeful Olli Rehn spelled out the challenges facing Mario Draghi’s successor in an interview published on Saturday, but declined to comment on the process. The ECB rate setter and Bank of Finland chief has been tipped as a potential successor to Draghi when the ECB president leaves on […]