SINGAPORE – Event organisers and venue operators have started preparing for bigger groups, following the announcement last week that capacity limits will be raised for weddings, pilot live performances and spectator sports from April 24. The Star Performing Arts Centre is in talks with venue hirers, including concert promoters, to see how they can have […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A China correspondent for the BBC has left Beijing after coming under intense pressure and being threatened over the British public broadcaster’s coverage of subjects like the origins of Covid-19 and the government’s crackdown on Muslim minorities in the far western region of Xinjiang. The correspondent, John Sudworth, said on Wednesday that […]
Hi all, In today’s bulletin: Ousted Myanmar Parliament plans national unity government; Calls for Asean to hold Special Summit; Japan on brink of fourth Covid-19 wave despite several measures; Two dead in fierce state election fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party and West Bengal Chief Minister; Hong Kong’s ‘Father of Democracy’ Martin Lee, media […]
MANILA — When a Filipino immigrant was brutally attacked this week on a New York City sidewalk, the Philippine foreign secretary went on Twitter and advised his compatriots in the United States to fight back. “The answer to racism has to be police/military; not understanding,” the foreign secretary, Teodoro Locsin, said in another Twitter post […]
TOKYO – Japan is on the brink of a fourth Covid-19 wave with the country grappling with mounting cases involving mutant strains of the coronavirus and general indifference. This comes less than two weeks after the lifting of a state of emergency that was limited in scope. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday (April 1) used […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – A swim while on holiday at a Western Australia beach has resulted in a painful octopus “whipping” – and a video of the encounter has gone viral. Geologist and author Lance Karlson was about to take a dip near the resort he and his family were staying at in Geographe Bay, on […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone monthly factory activity growth galloped at its fastest pace in the near 24-year history of a leading business survey last month, but supply chain disruptions and renewed lockdowns in the region may rein it in soon.FILE PHOTO: A woman works at MTA factory in Codogno, one year after the small […]
YANGON (BLOOMBERG) – Myanmar’s parliament, ousted by the military Feb 1, plans to set up a national unity government in the first week of April, according to a statement by a parallel administration of key allies of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The new government will be a coalition of all democratic forces […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia will begin receiving 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in June under a direct procurement exercise, said the coordinating minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, Mr Khairy Jamaluddin. “Subsequent deliveries will come every month,” he said at a press conference after launching the Corporate Collaboration for […]
FILE PHOTO: European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane speaks during a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, U.S., September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Gary HeFRANKFURT (Reuters) – The surge in euro zone inflation is driven by a slew of transient factors and underlying trends remain weak so the European Central Bank must maintain its ultra-easy policy, […]