SINGAPORE – The joy of seeing her patients get their life back on track has kept Madam Rahinah Ibrahim, 52, in nursing for half her life. As a principal assistant nurse in the slow stream rehabilitation ward at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), she works with long-stay patients, some of whom have been warded […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday he hoped European Union leaders and British lawmakers would back an agreement on Britain’s departure from the bloc to avoid a no-deal Brexit. “I am pleased that now a discernable contractual document exists, where one can see an amicable solution would be possible,” Scholz […]
TOKYO (AFP) – A wheelchair user who was stopped from drinking alcohol at a wine tasting event over “safety” concerns is seeking compensation in a Japanese court. The man in his 50s is demanding 1.7 million yen (S$20,650) in damages from both organisers and Seibu Department Store in Tokyo, where the event was held in […]
TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It was the least-expected fall of a charismatic corporate manager. It can be said that the future prospects of the world’s second-largest automotive group have become ever more unclear. The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has arrested Nissan Motor Co.’s Representative Director and […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A “cold war” between the United States and China is looking more and more inevitable, and the Indo-Pacific region could well turn into the main theatre where the emerging contest between the two superpowers will be played out. While attention has focused mainly on the tariff wars between […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Weaker exports were the primary driver behind Germany’s first quarterly economic contraction since 2015, data showed on Friday, confirming a preliminary negative reading of 0.2 percent in the third quarter. The Federal Statistics Office said exports fell 0.9 percent on the quarter while imports rose 1.3 percent, which resulted in net trade […]
SEOUL (AFP) – A woman pretending to be a former South Korean first lady was arrested on Friday (Nov 23) on suspicion of swindling a politician out of nearly US$400,000 (S$550,000), a report said. Claiming to be late president Roh Moo-hyun’s widow Kwon Yang-sook late last year, the fraudster allegedly persuaded the then mayor of […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China hopes the G20 group would maintain its longstanding position against protectionism, said China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Jun on Friday. China is hoping the G20 would be the driving force for the global economy as it faces downward pressure, Zhang said at a press conference in Beijing ahead of the G20 […]
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A threat by a key adviser to US President Donald Trump to evict China from the World Trade Organisation was dismissed as “talking nonsense” by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday (Nov 22). “The WTO is a multilateral organisation and is not owned by the United States,” Foreign Ministry […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s Agriculture Ministry said on Friday (Nov 23) that it had confirmed African swine fever on two farms in Beijing, the first cases in the Chinese capital. The disease was detected on two farms in Fangshan district, in the south-west of the city, the ministry said. About 70 cases of highly contagious African […]