KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Friday (May 3) hit back at a Muslim organisation planning a mass rally on Saturday, saying these so-called defenders of Islam were nowhere to be seen when pilgrimage fund Tabung Haji and plantation agency Felda lost millions of dollars under the previous administration. Gerakan Pembela Ummah […]
PURI, INDIA (AFP) – Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest storms to come off the Indian Ocean in recent years, slammed into India on Friday (May 3), tearing down trees, blowing away food stands and cutting off power and water. The monster weather system, which threatened to bring a dangerous storm surge that could flood […]
CANBERRA (BLOOMBERG) – Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia has cut ties with a third candidate within a week because of offensive social media posts, potentially hurting his conservative government’s bid for re-election this month. Ms Jessica Whelan on Friday (May 3) announced she was withdrawing her candidacy for the seat of Lyons in Tasmania […]
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – A swirl of mysterious personnel changes in Pyongyang have fuelled speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be changing negotiating tack after United States President Donald Trump walked away from their nuclear talks in March. The North Korean leader’s entourage has got a makeover in a series of recent public events […]
A Singapore-based Malaysian doctor died yesterday, after he was rescued from Nepal’s Mount Annapurna where he was stranded in sub-zero temperatures for nearly two days. Dr Chin Wui Kin, 48, had reached the top of the 8,100m Himalayan mountain last Tuesday with 32 other climbers but failed to return to the nearest camp, 1km below […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The death toll from the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March rose to 51 on Thursday, when a man wounded during the shooting died in a hospital. The man, a Turkish national, had been in intensive care in Christchurch Hospital since the shooting on March 15, […]
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Apollo Global Management-backed investment firm Starboard Restructuring Partners is in exclusive talks with Petrobras to buy nine onshore oilfields for roughly 1 billion reais ($252 million), two sources familiar with the matter said this week. The Brazilian investment firm, in which Apollo has a 30% stake, has partnered with […]
SINGAPORE – Hangout with ST, a video series by The Straits Times, is broadcast live at 8pm every Thursday on the paper’s Facebook and YouTube pages. The series adopts a casual, talk-show format and is helmed by multimedia journalists Alyssa Woo and Hairianto Diman. In this week’s episode, they will discuss abuse in the workplace […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – Lotte Group said on Thursday (May 2) it would resume work on a US$2.6 billion (S$3.5 billion) real estate project in China this month, after work was halted following the South Korean firm’s decision in 2017 to offer land in South Korea for a US anti-missile system. The South Korean real estate […]
SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It is almost certain that denuclearising North Korea will take a long time. Two recent events support this gloomy outlook. The first is North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia last week. The other is the sombre first anniversary on Saturday of the summit between Kim and […]