TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan’s newly-appointed defence minister said on Wednesday (March 17) it has strengthened deployments in the disputed South China Sea and that the United States has approved the export of sensitive technology to equip Taiwan’s new submarine fleet. China, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province to be reunified, has increased its military […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The rapid development of information technology has brought big changes in almost all aspects, including the monetary sector. The monetary authorities have to adopt the development of digital technology, transforming from conventional patterns into strategies based on digital technology. In line with the above developments, Bank Indonesia (BI) […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The rapid development of information technology has brought big changes in almost all aspects, including the monetary sector. The monetary authorities have to adopt the development of digital technology, transforming from conventional patterns into strategies based on digital technology. In line with the above developments, Bank Indonesia (BI) […]
SINGAPORE – A smaller proportion of workers was retrenched last year amid the economic upheavals caused by the pandemic compared with previous recessionary years. However, the total number of workers who lost their jobs surpassed figures not seen since the dot.com bust in 2001 and the Asian financial crisis in 1998, when more workers were […]
SINGAPORE – Dr Yong Nen Khiong, a cardiothoracic and general surgeon who wrote a weekly wine column for The Business Times for 30 years, died at home on Monday (March 15). He was 93. Better known as NK Yong, he was found to have an aorta aneurysm two years ago, but did not have it […]
MANILA – China is easing border restrictions to allow travellers from the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere outside South-east Asia in again – provided they have taken Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccines. “This has nothing to do with recognition of Chinese vaccines,” Mr Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters on Tuesday (March 16). […]
BEIJING – Every year, questions thrown up at the foreign minister’s annual news conference on the sidelines of China’s parliamentary meetings almost always, predictably, centre on the country’s foreign policy and relations with other nations, blocs and regions. But this year, the last question posed was not the typical diplomacy query. Please subscribe or log […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Six pedigree cats valued at thousands of dollars were confiscated in a Thai drug network raid on suspicion they were being used to launder money, police said on Tuesday (March 16), as animal rights activists protested against a plan to auction them off. The cats, comprising five of the scottish fold breed […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Suppliers of Fast Retailing Co, known for the Uniqlo brand of casual clothing stores, were the target of an arson attack in Myanmar, the Kyodo News agency said on Tuesday (March 16). The factories of two suppliers in the country, now riven by protests against a military coup and a violent government […]
SINGAPORE – More thundery showers are expected in the second half of this month, the weatherman said on Tuesday (March 16). For the rest of March, moderate to heavy thundery showers are expected over parts of the island in the afternoon on most days, particularly in the later part of the month. There could be […]