More than 900,000 people voted for Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu’s recall while only 25,000 who voted against. A high-profile mayor from Taiwan’s main opposition party lost an acrimonious recall vote on Saturday, auguring new problems for the party that is already reeling from losing January elections on the back of strong anti-China sentiment. The Kuomintang […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Another potentially large coronavirus aid bill will move through the U.S. Senate in late July, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans predicted on Tuesday. Without providing details of a bill still being crafted, McConnell said “basic protections” provided by federal unemployment insurance should be included but indicated they would not […]
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s Copan Group, one of the main manufacturers of swabs globally, has been approached by suitors and would be willing to accept any new investor prepared to support its expansion into new products or markets, its CEO and chairman said on Tuesday. Earlier this year, the family-owned company had to step up […]
SINGAPORE – Following investigations on its fund-raising activities, Crisis Centre (Singapore) president Dennis Lee Wen Da has been prohibited from conducting any fund-raising appeals, while the welfare organisation itself has also been restricted in this aspect. The centre had been suspended from conducting all fund-raising appeals since Aug 15 last year as investigations into its fund-raising activities found “serious concerns […]
KARACHI (AFP) – Regulators have barred Pakistan International Airlines from the European Union for six months after the state-run carrier grounded nearly a third of its pilots for holding fake or dubious licences, company official said on Tuesday (June 30). The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) told PIA “it is still not sure” if […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Tokyo on Tuesday (June 30) said it will move away from numerical targets to contain Covid-19 and rely more on the advice of a committee of experts, to try to control the novel coronavirus and avoid another economic slowdown. The metropolis, with a population of 14 million, has sought to keep new […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain and the European Union remain far apart in negotiations on a new trading relationship and analysts at many banks say the risk of a no-trade-deal Brexit at the end of the year is firmly back on the table. Talks are being held this week in Brussels but Britain’s refusal to extend […]
NEW DELHI/HONG KONG (REUTERS) – An Indian ban on dozens of Chinese apps following a border clash between the two nations has possibly derailed a US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) India expansion plan of China’s ByteDance, while also sparking an uproar from users of its popular TikTok video app. TikTok was removed from Google and Apple […]
Gas leak at pharmaceutical plant in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, where similar accident last month killed 12. At least two workers have been killed and four others sickened by gas that leaked from a pharmaceutical plant in an Indian industrial city where another fatal gas leak occurred last month. “The fire brigade immediately reached […]
JAKARTA – Before the pandemic, Mr Sulang used to dish up as many as 200 plates of nasi goreng for as much as 40,000 rupiah ($3.95) a pop on a good night. Now, even as the Covid-19 lockdown unwinds, he thinks twice about setting up his food cart at his regular spot – the once […]