SYDNEY (REUTERS) – An Australian government lawmaker on Monday (Dec 17) resigned from Cabinet over a media report that he used a website to meet a younger woman while on a Hong Kong work trip – overshadowing the government posting the best financial outlook in 10 years. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said he accepted the […]
Many volunteers stop giving their time once they join the workforce, get caught up in the rat race and start raising their families. To counter this, Ms Sherry Soon set up Be Kind SG last year, offering micro-volunteering opportunities. Volunteers can join the informal group in one or more activities. Ms Soon, 37, who started […]
North Korea has denounced the latest US sanctions, saying they could “block the path to denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula forever”. Washington said it put the sanctions on three top officials, after a report threw up a raft of human rights abuses. A historic summit between the nations’ leaders this summer appeared to point the […]
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s budget deficit is likely to overshoot the European Union’s limit of 3 percent of GDP next year and stand at around 3.2 percent, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told Les Echos newspaper in an interview. France is expected to breach the deficit ceiling after President Emmanuel Macron made concessions to anti-government protesters […]
After a historic summit between the US and North Korea, here’s an overview of a saga that has at times threatened nuclear war. Why did North Korea develop nuclear weapons? The Korean peninsula was divided after World War Two and the North developed into a Stalinesque authoritarian system. Isolated globally, it saw nuclear weapons as […]
Remember when Donald Trump said he and Kim Jong-un fell in love? Well now it seems they just don’t talk anymore. Instead, the US and North Korea appear to be staring one another down, waiting for the other to blink or make a move. And neither appears willing to give way. Discussions aimed at setting […]
A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. Japanese police say 41 people were injured in the explosion, with one of them in a serious condition. The cause of the explosion in the Toyohira district is not yet known. Some reports suggested a gas blast. Images on […]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned on Sunday that if the United States continued to escalate its sanctions and human rights campaign against the North, that approach could permanently shatter any chance of denuclearizing the country. Washington is holding fast to its policy of exerting “maximum” economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea, even […]
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland has canceled planned bond auctions for the remainder of the year and is on course to cut debt in 2018 for the first time in a decade, the finance ministry said on Sunday. Government debt was previously expected to increase by 1.3 billion euros this year but according to an update […]
Cambodian customs officials executed their largest seizure of ivory ever on Saturday, adding to the country’s reputation as a passageway for smugglers. Officials at the Phnom Penh Port, in central Cambodia, seized 1,026 elephant tusks, weighing 3.2 tonnes, in what was the biggest haul in its history. The rare African ivory was hidden amongst marble […]