KUALA LUMPUR – DAP has accused interim prime minister Mahathir Mohamad of refusing to commit to delivering promises made by their Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, leading to his resignation as premier on Monday. DAP secretary general Lim Guan Eng said in a statement issued Thursday (Feb 27) that this was expressed by Tun Mahathir at […]
SINGAPORE – The authorities will not hesitate to take strong action against those who break the rules meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus here, said Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam on Thursday (Feb 27). His comments come a day after it was announced that action had been taken against three Chinese nationals […]
The religious violence which has roiled Delhi since the weekend is the deadliest in decades. What began as small clashes between supporters and opponents of a controversial citizenship law quickly escalated into full-blown religious riots between Hindus and Muslims, in congested working class neighbourhoods on the fringes of the sprawling capital. Armed Hindu mobs rioted […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – A woman working as a tour-bus guide in Japan tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time, Osaka’s prefectural government said on Wednesday, the first person in the country to do so amid growing concerns about the spread of the infection. The second positive test comes as the number of confirmed […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Concerns about how the Indonesian government is handling the coronavirus outbreak have grown as none of the 132 Indonesian lab tests for the virus have come back positive as of Wednesday (Feb 26). This week, a hospital in Semarang, Central Java, and another in Batam, Riau Islands, each […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – A woman working as a tour bus guide in Japan tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time, Osaka’s prefectural government said on Wednesday (Feb 26), the first person in the country to be reinfected amid growing concerns about the spread of the infection. The second positive test comes as the […]
Long-time alternating foes and allies Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim, dominant figures in Malaysian politics, staked separate claims to helm the country yesterday, with neither appearing to have sufficient support to clinch his case. In his first public comments since the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government collapsed on Monday, interim Prime Minister Mahathir said he was […]
BOSTON (Reuters) – Utility operator NiSource Inc on Wednesday agreed to sell its Massachusetts operations to Eversource Energy for $1.1 billion after striking a deal with prosecutors to resolve a probe into catastrophic gas explosions there in 2018. News of the sale came after federal prosecutors in Boston said Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, the NiSource […]
JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar on Wednesday (Feb 26) personally met with most of the 56 assemblymen in the Malaysian southern state to find out which side had the majority to form the next state government following days of political turmoil. It is learnt that the assemblymen from […]
The US-China trade dispute has given Vietnam growth opportunities but it still has to overcome key challenges. Hanoi, Vietnam – With a few taps of their smartphone screens, hungry officials gathered in Hanoi for a summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea this week can send delivery drivers racing through honking motorbike traffic. A bowl of hot […]