KLANG (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A number of elected representatives in Selangor say they had been aware of the planned move by PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to form the Federal Government for quite some time. Selangor state assembly Speaker Ng Suee Lim said he had been hearing since last month that Datuk […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU) has banned crowd-pulling activities during the campaign trails in the upcoming simultaneous regional polls following concerns of heightened Covid-19 transmission in the country. The prohibition was arranged in the newly revised KPU Regulation No. 13/2020 on holding the regional elections during the […]
KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – Anwar Ibrahim has waited for decades to take power in Malaysia. If he finally achieves that goal, the 73-year-old opposition leader will need to figure out how to implement policies he’s long advocated in an increasingly fractious parliament. While Malaysia has always been beset by coalition politics, for six decades the […]
At 23, Mr Mock Yi Jun is among young Singaporeans that his generation calls “woke”. “Woke” means being acutely aware of social issues — and acting on such awareness. Where others merely worry about a pandemic-stricken economy, climate change and political upheaval, the “woke” prefer to walk as much as talk, to do what others […]
A group of foreign ministers from 30 small and medium countries, including Singapore, on Wednesday stressed the need for the international community to build on the momentum from the Covid-19 pandemic to speed up technological development and digitalisation. This will make countries better able to withstand future shocks, said the members of the Global Governance […]
FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s President and CEO Eric S. Rosengren speaks in New York, April 17, 2013. REUTERS/Keith Bedford/File Photo(Reuters) – The U.S. economy is far from maximum employment or 2% inflation, and interest rates will stay low for several years, Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Eric Rosengren said on Thursday. […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government launched scaled-back job support on Thursday for workers hit by the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, but warned not everyone could be helped during an economic meltdown that is threatening millions of jobs.Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Dame […]
OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s vow to double down on pandemic-related spending to keep the economic recovery under way in the face of a second wave of COVID-19 infections will support activity but raises questions over the burgeoning deficit, economists say.Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially tables the Throne Speech in the House of Commons as […]
Green Pulse Ep 32: Desmond Lee on balancing development and conservation in land-scarce Singapore 12:45 mins Synopsis: Green Pulse is an environmental podcast series by The Straits Times which analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change. Singapore aspires to be a City in Nature, with plans afoot to conserve its […]
As China faced rising international censure last year over its mass internment of Muslim minorities, officials asserted that the indoctrination camps in the western region of Xinjiang had shrunk as former camp inmates rejoined society as reformed citizens. Researchers at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on Thursday challenged those claims with an investigation that found […]