A Shanghai restaurant has closed down a day after being awarded a Michelin star, reportedly because it lacked the necessary licences to operate. The Taian Table, which opened in April and served Western dishes, was described by Michelin as “graceful” and praised for its “clever recipes”. But neighbours living above had complained of kitchen smoke […]
SYDNEY – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will arrive in the small city of Darwin in northern Australia on Friday (Nov 16) for the first visit by a Japanese leader since Japan bombed the city in 1942. Accompanied by his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison, Mr Abe is expected to pay respects to the Australian and Japanese […]
OTSU, Japan (Reuters) – Super-realistic face masks made by a tiny company in rural Japan are in demand from the domestic tech and entertainment industries and from countries as far away as Saudi Arabia. The 300,000-yen ($2,650) masks, made of resin and plastic by five employees at REAL-f Co., attempt to accurately duplicate an individual’s […]
A 38-year-old man who fell sick after allegedly consuming food from popular restaurant Spize died yesterday. Mr Fadli Salleh, who was married with two young children, had been in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of Sengkang General Hospital (SKH). He was one of 72 people who suffered gastroenteritis, after eating bento boxes […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the United States have resumed high-level talks on trade, the Chinese commerce ministry’s spokesman Gao Feng said at a weekly press briefing in Beijing on Thursday, without giving details. Earlier this month, after a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. President Donald Trump said he thought the Washington […]
LONDON (Reuters) – European shares marched higher on Thursday as oil prices stabilized and mining stocks rallied on hopes that China and the United States may reach a rapprochement to end their long-running trade spat, offsetting bad news in the tech sector. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.2 percent by 0844 GMT, with […]
A 12-day-old boy has died after he was snatched from his mother and bitten by a monkey in northern India. The infant’s mother was breastfeeding him at their home in the city of Agra when the animal entered the house and grabbed him, the family said. The monkey dropped the badly bitten child on a […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – New car registrations in Europe slumped 7.4 percent in October on falling demand in Germany, France, Italy and Spain and as registrations of Audi, Nissan and VW branded vehicles saw sharp declines, monthly auto industry data showed. Sales of VW branded cars fell 15.2 percent in October while Audi and Porsche saw […]
SINGAPORE – Scoot will shift its operations from Changi Airport Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 in the last quarter of 2019. The budget airline said on Thursday (Nov 15) that the shift is aimed at facilitating its growth plans and enhancing customer experience. It added that it projects double-digit annual growth over the next three […]
COLOMBO (REUTERS) – The Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament, Mr Karu Jayasuriya, on Thursday (Nov 15) said that in his view the country did not have a prime minister or Cabinet after Wednesday’s no-confidence vote. The Parliament passed the no-confidence motion against recently appointed prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government, with the backing of […]