KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysian police said they will take action not just on gambling syndicates, but also on property owners who rent out their premises for illegal purposes, in response to claims of illegal gambling resurfacing in business premises in Selangor. “Prior to this, our focus was on the syndicates but now […]
SINGAPORE – Electric-car sharing service, BlueSG, announced on Monday (Aug 10) that it has reached its one millionth rental since launching its car-sharing programme in 2017. Introduced as part of the Land Transport Authority’s pilot programme on a national-level electric vehicle car sharing initiative, BlueSG now has more than 80,000 subscribers who pay from $8 […]
Health secretary Alex Azar pledges US support for island democracy as China condemns visit and threatens retaliation. US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the most senior official to visit Taiwan in 40 years, met the island’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday, praising her government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and offering US President Donald Trump’s […]
Health secretary Alex Azar pledges US support for island democracy as China condemns visit and threatens retaliation. US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the most senior official to visit Taiwan in 40 years, met the island’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday, praising her government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and offering US President Donald Trump’s […]
BEIJING (XINHUA) – Chinese paleontologists have found new evidence of how ancient humans domesticated wild plants, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The discovery was made at the Yahuai Cave site, in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where plant remains dating back 30,000 years have been examined by researchers from the Institute […]
SEOUL (AFP) – Landslides and flooding triggered by days of heavy rain in South Korea have left at least 30 people dead and 12 missing, officials said on Sunday (Aug 9), warning of more downpours. Torrential rain has wreaked havoc across the country since the beginning of the month, but nearly half of the deaths […]
Philippine officials yesterday disputed data that showed the country had the most Covid-19 cases in East Asia, insisting that previous “hot spot” Indonesia was just not testing enough people, a claim Jakarta contested. “Because we test more, it is not true that we have more cases than Indonesia. The Indonesians just don’t know just exactly […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hong Kong reported 72 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (Aug 9), of which 63 were locally transmitted, as authorities continued efforts to contain a resurgence of infections in the global financial hub over the past month. More than 4,000 people have been infected in Hong Kong since January, 51 of whom […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – India will stop importing more than 100 items used by its armed forces in a bid to boost local manufacturing. The ban will be implemented gradually, starting with products such as sniper rifles and light-combat helicopters in December this year and long-range land-attack cruise missiles in December 2025, the Ministry of […]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina will start talks with the International Monetary Fund in the coming weeks aimed at clinching a new program to replace a defunct $57 billion standby lending deal from two years ago, a top IMF official told Reuters on Saturday. In 2018, Argentina received the biggest lending package in IMF history […]