LUCKNOW (REUTERS) – A man has been arrested in northern India after slashing his pregnant wife’s stomach with a sickle, leaving her critically ill and causing the death of their unborn baby boy, police and her relatives said. The woman was in intensive care in a hospital in the capital, New Delhi, said police in […]
FILE PHOTO: Richard Gnodde, International CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks during an event to launch the private finance agenda for the 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) at Guildhall in London, Britain, February 27, 2020. Tolga Akmen/Pool via REUTERS(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday its UK headquarters will remain open to staff who […]
SINGAPORE – No country has been spared from the impacts of Covid-19, and international cooperation is necessary to respond effectively to the pandemic and buttress global economic recovery, said Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday (Sept 22). “Singapore will work with G-20 members to implement the measures to help our economies […]
SEOUL – For the first time in nine years, housewife Yvonne Park will be relaxing over Chuseok, or Korean Thanksgiving Day, instead of toiling over the sink “washing a mountain of dishes the size of Mount Everest”. Washing dishes and preparing food is the responsibility of first daughters-in-law like her, when the extended family gathers […]
KABUL, Afghanistan — When a young Afghan police officer killed two American Marines in southern Afghanistan in 2011, he was acting out of his own outrage rather than taking orders from the Taliban, according to his family and closest friends. Still, the insurgents lobbied hard to secure the release of the former officer, Mohammad Dawood, […]
JAKARTA (XINHUA) – Floods and landslides have struck Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta and its surrounding areas, leaving two people dead, one missing and 20 others injured, officials said on Tuesday (Sept 22). A river overflowed its banks due to torrential rains since Monday, and submerged surrounding areas in the capital which has recently been under […]
FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at a terminal in the port of Hamburg, Germany November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian BimmerBERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Ifo institute on Tuesday said Europe’s largest economy would likely shrink by 5.2% this year, raising its previous estimate for a 6.7% drop, in the latest sign the damage caused by the COVID-19 […]
BEIJING – Self-confessed “travelholic” Minnie Liu is going on vacation, her first for the year, during the “Golden Week” holidays next month. The 28-year-old finance executive, who went on eight trips of varying durations last year, wanted to do better than that this year but her plans were scuppered by the Covid-19 pandemic. “Now that […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – State-backed vaccine maker China National Biotec Group (CNBG) is hopeful of two of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidates receiving conditional regulatory approval for general public use within the year, its vice-president said on Tuesday (Sept 22). China has inoculated hundreds of thousands of people under an emergency programme authorised in July for […]
BEIJING • A high-octane PR video for China’s air force has crash-landed on social media after users questioned why the world’s second-largest military power spliced clips from Hollywood blockbusters Transformers and The Rock into its own propaganda material. The video, with 4.72 million views on Weibo and crafted by the Propaganda and Culture Centre of […]