SEREMBAN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – More than 20,000 voters in Rantau are chosing a new assemblyman on Saturday (April 13) in a key by-election. The contest is a four-cornered fight between Barisan Nasional’s incumbent Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, Pakatan Harapan’s Dr S. Streram and independents Mohd Nor Yassin and R. Malarvizhi. The 14 polling […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday the central bank was ready to expand monetary stimulus if needed, brushing aside the view the BOJ had little ammunition left to fight the next economic downturn. Kuroda said it was true major central banks may have less room to cut interest rates […]
SINGAPORE – Only a fifth of citizen patrol volunteers are under the age of 40, and more young people are needed as the scheme rebrands and adapts to better serve the community. Bukit Batok MP Murali Pillai, speaking at the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Citizens on Patrol (COP) scheme on Saturday (April 13), said: […]
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks were set to open higher on Friday, boosted by better-than-expected results from JPMorgan, a $33 billion energy deal and signs of stability in Chinese economy. The S&P 500 e-minis were up 17.25 points, or 0.6% by 8:42 a.m. ET. If the gains hold at the open, the benchmark would top 2,900 […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Friday, April 12. Not the right time to ease sanctions on North Korea, says Trump Mr Trump however said he could be open to “various smaller deals” to achieve the denuclearisation of North Korea in a more incremental manner, which would be a departure from […]
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Avianca Brasil said on Friday it had canceled 179 flights scheduled over the next five days as the airline’s operations finally unraveled four months after it filed for bankruptcy protection. Avianca Brasil was operating with 35 planes on Friday, a representative said, but could lose nine of them by Monday if […]
(Reuters) – European shares ground higher on Thursday, buoyed by gains among bank and travel stocks, with risk appetite aided by a European Central Bank official expressing willingness to support the euro zone. French central bank head Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the euro zone was not in the situation of Japan and that […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Indonesia’s Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) on Thursday (April 11) said it has called on the KPU (General Elections Commission) to assess the Kuala Lumpur chapter of the election committee and postpone the voting process in Malaysia. This came about after a video showed people raiding an empty store […]
SINGAPORE – SingHealth has launched a new disease centre at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) which brings together all of its transplant expertise, including research and education, in an effort to improve transplant care and increase access to organs. The SingHealth Duke-NUS Transplant Centre will consolidate all of the medical group’s solid organ, tissue and cellular […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s economy grew more than expected in the first quarter from the quarter before on an annualized basis, preliminary data showed on Friday. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.0 percent in the January-March period from the previous three months on an annualized and seasonally adjusted basis, the Ministry of Trade and Industry […]