SEOUL (REUTERS) – Outside class hours, Kim Kyung-wook delivers meals on foot to apartment blocks near his university in eastern Seoul, while constantly checking his phone to trade stocks, cryptocurrency and used Nike sneakers. That probably won’t help him land a well-paid job when he graduates later this year, but Kim says such side hustles […]
ULAANBAATAR (REUTERS) – Former Mongolian prime minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh became the country’s sixth democratically elected president on Wednesday (June 9), further consolidating the power of the ruling Mongolian People’s Party (MPP). Mr Khurelsukh, who was forced to resign as prime minister after protests earlier this year, comfortably defeated Mr Sodnomzundui Erdene of the opposition Democratic […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s Victoria state said new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 rose slightly on Thursday (June 10) as state capital, Melbourne, prepares to come out of a two-week hard lockdown to contain its latest virus outbreak. Melbourne will exit the lockdown as planned on Thursday night, although some restrictions on travel and gatherings […]
Fine Art graduate Farisah Binte Shafiee, 21, sees art as a way to mitigate the psychological impact of an ongoing pandemic. The fledgling artist wants to help others to express and process complex emotions – and destress – through the sensory experience of carving, peeling, breaking or bending wax. “Communication with the outside world is […]
SINGAPORE – A former director with the Housing Board was in court on Wednesday (June 9) for allegedly having intimate images of men taken in different places including a Safra locker room. Leo Norman Chee Wei Kiong, 59, faces 14 charges for various offences including being a public nuisance. According to court documents, the Singaporean […]
BEIJING – The crisis in Myanmar was high on the agenda at the recent Special Asean-China Foreign Ministers Meeting in Chongqing on Monday (June 7), but the final joint statement on the issue was somewhat of an anti-climax, appearing simply to contain diplomatic niceties. But observers noted that what was left out of the statement […]
Foreign businesses worry that tough quarantines and restrictions could persist into next year as Beijing struggles with variants and questions about its vaccines. By Keith Bradsher BEIJING — Neighborhoods under strict lockdown. Thousands quarantined. Millions tested in mere days. Overseas arrivals locked up for weeks and sometimes months. China has followed variations of that formula […]
YANGON (AFP) – An international medical charity warned on Wednesday (June 9) of “life-threatening” consequences for thousands of HIV and tuberculosis patients in Myanmar after it was ordered by the junta to stop work in a southern city. Doctors Without Borders – widely known by its French initials MSF – received a letter from regional […]
NEW DELHI – India is going ahead with Covid-19 vaccine trials for children as young as two amid concerns that further mutations of the coronavirus could potentially have a serious impact on them. Two Indian companies – Bharat Biotech and Zydus Cadila – are at the forefront of conducting trials on children and teenagers, who […]
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he wants to finish inoculating everyone in the country who’s willing to get a Covid-19 vaccine by October or November, citing progress made in the vaccination drive so far. Mr Suga revealed his target for the first time during a parliamentary debate in Tokyo on Wednesday […]