PORT MORESBY (REUTERS) – Tonga has signed up to China’s Belt and Road initiative and has received a reprieve from Beijing on its onerous debt repayment schedule, an official from the Pacific island nation told Reuters. Lopeti Senituli, political adviser to Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva, told Reuters by e-mail on Sunday (Nov 18) that […]
PORT MORESBY (AFP) – The police were called when Chinese officials attempted to “barge” into the office of Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister, it emerged on Sunday (Nov 18), as Apec summit tensions boiled over. The Chinese delegates “tried to barge in” to Rimbink Pato’s Port Moresby office Saturday, in an eleventh-hour bid to influence […]
GRIFFITH, AUSTRALIA (AFP) – A Hazara refugee who now calls the Australian outback home, Mr Ali named his new venture the “Afghan Friendship Restaurant”, a tribute to the warm welcome he says he received after moving to the town of Griffith five years ago. The 44-year-old father of three is among a growing number of […]
PORT MORESBY (Reuters) – Tonga has signed up to China’s Belt and Road initiative and has received a reprieve from Beijing on its onerous debt repayment schedule, an official from the Pacific island nation told Reuters. Lopeti Senituli, political advisor to Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva, told Reuters by email on Sunday that Tonga had […]
Top officials in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) struck a reconciliatory tone at the opening of its national congress yesterday even as bad blood from divisive leadership polls threatened to boil over. Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail skipped past a scathing attack on internal foes that was in her prepared policy address – […]
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SINGAPORE – Former television hunk Zack Zainal has found himself used as the face of a bitcoin scam. The 1989 Manhunt champion who was the host of Malay Talentime for six seasons (1989 – 1995) got a shock when he heard of an article using his name to solicit bitcoin investments circulating on Facebook a […]
China has branded as “irresponsible” US comments that it is intimidating its neighbours with its military deployment in the South China Sea. A top Chinese general said China had the right to deploy troops and weapons “on its own territory”. Earlier US Defence Secretary James Mattis said Beijing’s actions called into question its broader goals. […]
THATI, India — When Sardar Singh Jatav set out walking on a muggy night in early September to talk with the men who employed his son, he found them already waiting for him in the road. But they were not in the mood for discussion. The higher-caste men greeted Mr. Sardar with a punch to […]
PORT MORESBY (AFP) – Protectionist actions are short-sighted and doomed to fail, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday (Nov 17) ahead of an Apec summit at which US-China trade tensions are likely to take centre stage. “Attempts to erect barriers and cut close economic ties work against the laws of economics and the trends […]