SEOUL (REUTERS) – North Korea’s sports ministry said on Tuesday (April 6) that it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics this year to protect its athletes amid the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was made at a meeting of North Korea’s Olympic committee on March 25 including its sports minister Kim Il Guk, the ministry […]
White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse and Washington Center for Equitable Growth CEO Heather Boushey join White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for Equal Pay Day during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top White House economist Cecilia Rouse on […]
MUMBAI (BLOOMBERG) – India added more than 100,000 infections over the last 24 hours, a record increase that pushed its richest state to order offices to work from home and shut malls and restaurants through April. Maharashtra, which houses financial hub Mumbai and contributes about 15 per cent of national output, will halt all non-essential […]
MUMBAI (BLOOMBERG) – India added more than 100,000 infections over the last 24 hours, a record increase that pushed its richest state to order offices to work from home and shut malls and restaurants through April. Maharashtra, which houses financial hub Mumbai and contributes about 15 per cent of national output, will halt all non-essential […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – One mid-February morning in the central highlands of the Indonesian province of Papua, the army said Prada Ginanjar Arianda, a 22-year-old member of the 400 Banteng Raiders commando battalion, was shot in the stomach by separatist fighters and died. About 24 hours later, after a sweep by security forces through nearby hamlets […]
SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – National security advisers from the US, South Korea and Japan had a three-way meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, on Friday (April 2). Hours later, the foreign ministers of South Korea and China held talks in a southern Chinese city close to Taiwan. The meeting of national security advisers was […]
In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete. Small hands reached out for the first slice, cool and slippery. His daughter — 10 years old, with dreams of being a makeup artist or a nurse or maybe even a princess with long golden […]
In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete. Small hands reached out for the first slice, cool and slippery. His daughter — 10 years old, with dreams of being a makeup artist or a nurse or maybe even a princess with long golden […]
SINGAPORE – Feeling upset over personal issues, a maid decided to vent her unhappiness on a one-year-old baby boy under her care by abusing him with acts such as stepping on his leg and pushing his head until he fell. Indonesian Suliana Kasim Dapok, 42, was sentenced on Monday (April 5) to nine months’ jail […]
BANGKOK (BLOOMBERG) – Sony Pictures Entertainment is developing the Columbia Pictures studio name and films into a theme and water park in Thailand, just in time for a post-Covid rebound in tourism. The company is working with attractions developer Amazon Falls to create the Columbia Pictures’ Aquaverse, rebranding and expanding an existing Amazon Falls water […]