(Reuters) – European shares regained ground on Tuesday led by the tech sector after the United States temporarily eased restrictions on China’s Huawei. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.4% by 0840 GMT, with the trade-sensitive DAX outperforming after the U.S. Commerce Department said it would allow Huawei Technologies to purchase American-made goods to […]
The Indian election – billed the world’s biggest democratic exercise – has not quite concluded. But exit polls point towards a clear win for Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s party – the BJP – possibly by an even bigger majority than he won in 2014. 900 million people were eligible to vote in the seven-phased election, […]
Photo sharing site Instagram says it is trying to find out how contact details of almost 50 million of its users was stored online in an unguarded database. TechCrunch, which broke the story, said it included personal information such as email and phone numbers of high profile users known as “influencers”. The database has been […]
JAKARTA – Indonesian President Joko Widodo, in his first remarks following the release of the official election results on Tuesday (May 21), expressed his desire to reach out to his rival Prabowo Subianto and his running-mate Sandiaga Uno in the spirit of democracy. “There was already a plan earlier since the April 17 (elections) to […]
JAKARTA – Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto said on Tuesday (May 21) he would not accept the election commission (KPU)’s official result showing he lost to incumbent President Joko Widodo at last month’s presidential election and would challenge it in the Constitutional Court, citing election fraud. His comments came as Mr Joko expressed his desire […]
The man accused of killing 51 people in the Christchurch mosques attack has been charged with terrorism, New Zealand police have said. Brenton Tarrant was charged with “engaging in a terrorist act”, police said in a statement on Tuesday. He is already facing charges of murder and 40 of attempted murder following the attack on […]
SINGAPORE (REUTERS) – China’s defence minister will speak at an Asia defence forum in Singapore, the organiser said on Monday (May 20), the first time in eight years that Beijing has been represented at this level at the gathering and at a time when China-US ties are strained over trade and security. Defence Minister Wei […]
SINGAPORE – Unhappy that his mistress of almost two years had taken another lover, a married businessman ordered his rival to be attacked, leaving the victim with a scar that is likely to be permanent. For ordering the attack, Lim Hong Liang, 55, was sentenced on Tuesday (May 21) to six years’ jail. Following a […]
SINGAPORE – A postman who was arrested in January for tossing unopened letters and packages in a rubbish bin in Ang Mo Kio has been issued an advisory following investigations, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said. The postman has special needs, the authority noted. In a statement on Tuesday (May 21), IMDA said that […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his government will order an end to tax forgiveness for the country’s largest companies, saying $20 billion in exemptions given by his predecessors was akin to theft by gangsters. Of the firms that benefited from tax breaks totaling more than 400 billion […]