SINGAPORE – A team of mostly Singaporean university students has clinched one of the top awards at Sweden’s largest hackathon event in Stockholm last week. And they will now have the chance to present their solution on stage in Almedalen in the coastal city of Visby on July 5, at an annual event considered to […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Apple Inc supplier Japan Display said on Friday it has signed a long-awaited deal under which it will receive a 232 billion yen ($2.1 billion) bailout that will give a Chinese-Taiwanese group a near-majority stake in the firm. The group which includes Taiwanese flat screen maker TPK Holding and China asset manager […]
KIM JONG UN CONSOLIDATES POWER North Korea has named a new nominal head of state and a new premier while the country’s leader Kim Jong Un has a new title – the supreme representative of all the Korean people – in what is being described as the biggest leadership shake-up in years. What it could […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s exports rebounded in March but imports shrank for a fourth straight month and at a sharper pace, painting a mixed picture of the economy as trade talks with the United States reach their endgame. Investors are hoping for more signs of economic recovery in China to temper worries about slowing global […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – North Korea named a new nominal head of state and a new premier, state media said on Friday (April 12), replacing the two senior leaders tasked with representing Pyongyang in many international engagements and playing a major role in developing the civilian economy. Choe Ryong Hae was named President of the Presidium […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – The Dalai Lama was discharged from a New Delhi hospital on Friday (April 12), his personal spokesman said, three days after being admitted with what an aide called a “light cough”. “He was discharged from the hospital at eight o’clock in the morning,” Mr Tenzin Taklha told AFP. “He is doing very […]
SINGAPORE – A construction worker gave his phone numbers to a 12-year-old girl who caught his eye on the MRT, then sexually groomed her before taking her to secluded areas for sex. On Friday (April 12), Bangladeshi Das Ratan Chandra, 41, was sentenced to 22 years’ jail and 18 strokes of the cane after he […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Friday Japan and the United States will hold a first round of trade talks on April 15-16 in Washington, to find ways to address U.S. concerns over the large surplus Japan enjoys in bilateral trade. U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear he is unhappy with […]
SINGAPORE – After an 11-day islandwide operation, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said on Friday (April 12) that it has arrested 139 suspected drug offenders. The authorities seized 589g of cannabis, 83g of Ice, 26g of new psychoactive substances, 22g of heroin, 119 Erimin-5 tablets, six Ecstasy tables and a small amount of ketamine and […]
(Reuters) – Barclays Plc on Thursday opposed activist Sherborne Investors’ demand to name the investor’s founder Edward Bramson to the board of the British bank. While the bank said it recognized that it does not “yet perform at the level at which it should”, it added that it does not need another strategic overhaul. Bramson […]