NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – No longer shamed as criminals, millions of LGBT+ people in India will be less at risk from HIV/AIDS following the legalization of gay sex, the head of a global health fund said on Thursday. Many gay and transgender people say they encounter discrimination and stigma during health check ups, […]
SINGAPORE – The first of six videos in a series on Singapore’s bicentennial year with the theme “200 years in 200 seconds” was launched on Friday (Feb 8). The series is a collaboration between The Straits Times’ video team, picture desk, and heritage and community correspondent Faith Melody Zaccheus. The first video succinctly captures key […]
GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – No decision has been made about the future of Deputy Foreign Minister Marzuki Yahya, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Tun Dr Mahathir said they haven’t found out what really happened to Marzuki. “There is no decision yet on the issue,” he said, when asked to comment on the […]
(Reuters) – Wall Street was set for a lower opening on Friday, as a lack of progress on the U.S.-China trade talks ahead of a looming deadline added to investor nerves over slowing global growth. Another round of talks is set for next week in Beijing, but President Donald Trump on Thursday fanned worries when […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar on Friday clung to its earlier gains against a basket of currencies, hovering at level last seen in early January, after the Trump administration said China and the United States will hold high-level trade talks in Beijing on Feb. 14-15. At 11:55 a.m. ET (1655 GMT), an index that […]
BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Thai Raksa Chart Party cancelled plans to launch election campaigns in Bangkok’s China Town on Saturday (Feb 9), a day after the party dropped a political bombshell by announcing that former princess Ubolratana was the party’s sole candidate for prime minister. The party informed reporters without explanation that […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29 but so far has no exit agreement with the bloc to ensure an orderly departure. London is Europe’s biggest financial center, with the EU its top export market, meaning that without contingency arrangements markets, banking, asset management and insurance across Europe […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. economy is expanding at a 2.17 percent pace in the first quarter based on data on trade balance in November and services business activity in January, the New York Federal Reserve’s Nowcast model showed on Friday. This was slower than the 2.39 percent rate calculated by the N.Y. Fed […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. central bankers are currently debating whether it should confine its controversial tool of bond buying to purely emergency situations or if it should turn to that tool more regularly, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said on Friday. “In the financial crisis, in the aftermath of that when […]
BANGKOK – The elder sister of Thailand’s king has been nominated to be its future prime minister, in a surprise development on Friday (Feb 8) as registration of candidates for the March 24 election drew to a close. Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, 67, was the sole prime minister candidate nominated by the Thai Raksa Chart Party […]