A military-backed party has taken the lead in Thailand’s first election since a 2014 coup, preliminary results showed, suggesting junta leader and prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha could stay in power, helped by an electoral system tilted in the military’s favour. With 93 percent of votes counted late Sunday, the Palang Pracharat party was first with […]
Thailand’s first general election since a military coup five years ago was thrown into disarray on Monday as two opposition parties alleged cheating and the election commission said it could be weeks until the make-up of parliament becomes clear. Confusion over the outcome of Sunday’s election raised the specter of a protracted struggle to form […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron were to hold talks in Paris on Monday with the host leader seeking to forge a united European front in the face of Beijing’s inroads on the continent. Xi’s visit marks 55 years since French leader Charles de Gaulle established diplomatic relations with Beijing. A […]
Former officials from China and the United States jousted on Sunday over China’s role on the world stage and how it should get there. Veteran Chinese diplomat Fu Ying said Washington should not dictate what part China played and that the US should accept Beijing taking a more prominent role. But Fu, a former deputy […]
President Donald Trump is sending US Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to Beijing, China, on Thursday to continue US trade talks with China, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday. On February 22 Chinese President Xi Jinping had delivered an optimistic message to Trump, calling on the US and […]
The president’s comments about sanctions relief reveal the chasm between Trump and his own national security adviser. North Korea is telling its people to prepare for the worst as it becomes clear that that its negotiations with the Trump administration are going nowhere. In a blog post published Sunday, former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong-ho […]
North Korea abruptly withdrew its staff from a liaison office with South Korea on Friday, a development that is likely to put a damper on ties between the countries and further complicate global diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear programme. The North Korean action came a week after its vice foreign minister threatened to pull out […]
The United States sent a guided-missile destroyer and a coastguard vessel through the Taiwan Strait at the weekend, the US Seventh Fleet said. It was the first such voyage involving a coastguard ship. “USS Curtis Wilbur and the coastguard cutter USCGC Bertholf conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit [on] March 24-25 in accordance with international […]
Residents in the Hong Kong Island neighbourhood of Quarry Bay on Sunday formed a concern group to counter a reported government study to build subsidised housing on a two-hectare site at scenic Mount Parker. The group collected about 350 signatures in one week through an online petition to Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and […]
OVER 10 MONTHS, she was caned, barred from using the toilet, forced to eat her own vomit and warned that her relatives could be killed if she complained. It was a life Moe Moe Than, 32, a domestic worker from Myanmar, never imagined when she arrived in Singapore in 2012. Last week, her Singaporean employers, […]
Hong Kong could face a second wave of measles infections, a top disease expert warned on Monday, as health authorities stepped up vaccinations of workers at the city’s airport. The Centre for Health Protection has recorded 20 measles infections so far this year against 15 in all of 2018 five of them involving airport and […]
A gas explosion in a secretive enclave run by the ethnic Wa in Myanmar’s eastern borderlands has killed 16 people and injured dozens, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) said Sunday. Emergency workers could be seen trawling through debris at the explosion site in Mongmaw town in a video posted on Facebook by UWSA spokesman […]
Vietnam police busted a massive meth ring in a HCM City mansion allegedly run by a Chinese national who used a textile company as a cover for the operation, police and state media reported Thursday. Police on Wednesday stormed the luxury property in Vietnam’s largest city, guarded with private security and outfitted with cameras during […]
An elephant has been found dead with its tusks and tail sliced off in a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia, where wild elephant numbers have dwindled to just a few hundred due to poaching and deforestation. The Southeast Asian nation has emerged in recent years as a key transit hub for the multi billion dollar illicit […]
African swine fever is spreading in Vietnam hitting two more provinces, after it was first detected in three separate farms in two other provinces earlier this month. The new farms hit by the highly contagious disease are in Hai Phong and Thanh Hoa provinces, 100 km to the east and 160 km to the south […]
African swine fever has been detected on three farms in Vietnam, authorities said on Tuesday, the first confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease in the Southeast Asia country. All pigs on the farms located in Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces, southeast of the capital Hanoi, were culled, the Animal Health Department said in […]
Representatives from 13 countries across Asia and the Pacific gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, from 29 to 31 October to develop road maps to implement and expand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV self-testing in the region. In discussions on building capacity for the rollout of PrEP and HIV testing innovations in Asia and the Pacific, policy-makers, […]
The health ministry said today it will focus on eliminating mother-to-child transmission of Hepatitis B, after Malaysia became the first country in the Western Pacific to eradicate such transmissions in HIV and syphilis. Health minister Dzulkefly Ahmad said a few states will begin pilot programmes of targeted screening for Hepatitis B among pregnant mothers, after […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 25, 2019 – (ACN Newswire) – In celebration of International Women’s Day recently, Morgan Philips Group paid homage to five inspiring female entrepreneurs within the online arena and named Sharala Axryd, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS) as one of the five women who have […]
Launched on Monday, April 1 at Select Tokyo Stores TOKYO, Mar 25, 2019 – (JCN Newswire) – On Monday, April 1, Mitsubishi Corporation and Lawson Co., Ltd. will launch “SMARI”, a return service of rental products or online purchases utilizing Lawson ‘s existing (reverse) logistics network at select (approximately 100) Lawson stores in Tokyo. The […]
Vancouver, BC, Mar 25, 2019 – (ACN Newswire) – TransCanna Holdings Inc. (CSE:TCAN, XETR: TH8) (“TransCanna” or “the Company”) recently signed definitive documents to purchase for US$15 million a 196,000 sq ft vertically integrated facility in northern California as announced on March 20, 2018. Included in the purchase is a total of 5.567 acres of […]
A gas explosion in a secretive enclave run by the ethnic Wa in Myanmar’s eastern borderlands has killed 16 people and injured dozens, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) said Sunday. Emergency workers could be seen trawling through debris at the explosion site in Mongmaw town in a video posted on Facebook by UWSA spokesman […]
Vietnam has lodged an official protest with China following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat which was being chased by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel in the disputed South China Sea, Vietnam said late on Thursday. Vietnam and China have for years long been embroiled in a dispute over the potentially energy-rich stretch of […]
Cambodia broke ground Friday on a $2 billion Chinese-funded expresswaythe country’s firstas strongman premier Hun Sen denied his country was in danger of becoming a colony of Beijing. Once complete in 2023 the expressway will connect the capital Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, a southern resort and seaport that has become a honeypot for Chinese gamblers […]
The head of one Chinese private equity firm is bullish on China’s technology. “China has the best digital infrastructure, as a sizable economy,” John Zhao, CEO of Hony Capital, said at the China Development Forum in Beijing. “When I talk about the digital infrastructure, it’s not just about how many people are internet-users, or will […]
Not ‘typical foreigners’, says Raffles chair as Singapore hospital operator bets big on China market Patience is key to international companies cracking China’s health care market, the world’s second-largest, Dr Loo Choon Yong, chair of Singapore-based Raffles Medical Group, said on Saturday. Singapore’s largest private medical services operator, Raffles is betting on mainland China to […]
The wife of the former Chinese head of Interpol, who has had no news of him for nearly six months since his arrest in China, has asked French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the matter with counterpart Xi Jinping during an official visit to France. In a letter to the Elysee Palace dated March 21, […]
Malaysians will not accept PKR MP Nurul Izzah Anwar’s warnings of a crisis in Pakatan Harapan (PH) if it does not come from the “theatrics minister”, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today. In remarks appeared aimed at minister in the prime minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mujahid Yusof Rawa, Najib pointedly asked if […]
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs deputy minister Chong Chieng Jen today asked beer drinkers to help fill up the national coffers by going for only genuine products. He said for every litre of beer they consume they pay certain percentage of tax to the government. “Let us enjoy our beer, and at the same time, […]
The Universiti Malaya (UM) students, who were assaulted by supporters of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, told their attackers today that they fear nobody and will not be cowed by physical or political threats. Wong Yan Ke, who was among those manhandled at a protest that took place near UM yesterday, said students must be firm […]
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Moluccas Islands on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck in the sea, 147 km (92 miles) northwest of the city of Ternate and at a depth of 76.5 km. There were no immediate tsunami warnings and no immediate reports of damage. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/earthquake-6-3-magnitude-strikes-off-moluccas-islands-052749777.html
Indonesia’s capital inaugurated its first mass rapid transit system on Sunday, a $1.1 billion project seen as crucial to tackling some of the world’s worst traffic congestion. President Joko Widodo and other officials joined a ceremony in Jakarta to give a green light for the 16-kilometre (10 mile) line, almost six years after construction began […]
Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes — and opposition from menacing gangsters. There’s no quiet rule at this open-air reading park wedged between two lanes of traffic just outside Indonesia’s capital, a city of some 30 […]
SGX-Mainboard listed China Hongxing Sports Limited (“China Hongxing”) has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement (the “S&P Agreement”) with Mining and Mineral Industries Holding Pte. Ltd. (the “Vendor”), to acquire (the “Proposed Transaction”) the issued and paid-up share capital in MMJV Pte. Ltd. (the “Target Company”) – a Singapore registered company that holds two […]
Two Singaporean men were allegedly involved in the illegal dumping of toxic waste into Sungai Kim Kim an incident that has afflicted thousands of victims in the industrial town of Pasir Gudang in the neighbouring Malaysian state of Johor. One was charged yesterday, while the other remains on the run. The Star reported that 34-year-old […]
When you are older and suddenly face the inability to make mental decisions for yourself, the last thing you would want is to be taken care of in a way that you do not like or want. Four young Singapore undergraduates are trying to turn this around with a new social campaign to get older […]
Prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha arrived at the government House on Monday, the day after the general election, later than usual. He usually arrives for work around 8.30am but on Monday his vehicle was seen entering the government House at 9.37am. Palang Pracharat party, which nominated Prayut as its sole prime ministerial candidate, is currently neck […]
Thailand’s ruling junta took an unexpected lead in the country’s first election since a 2014 coup with more than 90 percent of ballots counted, election authorities said late Sunday, putting it on course to return to power at the expense of the kingdom’s pro-democracy camp. The election, which saw an insipid 64 percent turnout, was […]
As digital landscapes shift between the new and the old, blockchain and cryptocurrencies have quietly risen in popularity, particularly as countries experiment with emerging technologies. With power increasingly framed by Asia’s soft ambitions as the region embarks on more persuasive methods of influence, the continent’s blockchain market is projected to grow by an estimated 87 […]
Authorities seized almost 300 kilograms of shabu shipment at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) on Friday (March 22). Personnel from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) discovered the contraband inside a 40-foot container. The illegal drugs totalling 276 kilograms were concealed inside Chinese tea bags packed in one-kilogram […]
More than 10,000 motorcycle riders staged a motorcade on Sunday (March 24) on the main highways of the Philippine capital Manila to protest against new regulations forcing them to display bigger licence plates, saying the measure would not solve the problem. Cases of murders, robberies and other crimes perpetrated by people on motorbikes have been […]
The Philippine government should lodge complaints in all available platforms against China to focus international attention on its incursions in contested waters, a political risk analyst said Sunday. Filipino fishermen and former officials last week filed a complaint before the International Criminal Court, accusing Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity in connection with […]
A record 2,731,093 foreigners were registered living in Japan at the end of 2018, up 6.6 percent from a year earlier, bolstered by a rising number of students and technical trainees, the Justice Ministry says. The government is expecting a further rise in foreign residents under a new visa system to be implemented next month […]
The options for Japan’s next era name, which will be unveiled on April 1, are believed to include terms adapted from Japanese classics despite past era names typically being drawn from Chinese classics, according to government sources. A Japanese era name is used for the length of an emperor’s reign, appearing in calendars and official […]
From bento boxes to individually wrapped bananas, plastic reigns supreme in Japan. But amid global concern about single-use waste, new legislation could help end the country’s love affair with plastic. The push comes ahead of the G20 summit, which Japan will host in Osaka in June. prime minister Shinzo Abe’s government wants to use the […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday suggested that President Trump’s reversal of Treasury Department sanctions against North Korea that had not yet been made public could stoke international uncertainty over future punitive measures. “Something happened between the time it was announced and the time that the president put out that statement,” Rubio said on NBC’s […]
North Korea abruptly withdrew its staff from a liaison office with South Korea on Friday, a development that is likely to put a damper on ties between the countries and further complicate global diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear programme. The North Korean action came a week after its vice foreign minister threatened to pull out […]
The president’s comments about sanctions relief reveal the chasm between Trump and his own national security adviser. North Korea is telling its people to prepare for the worst as it becomes clear that that its negotiations with the Trump administration are going nowhere. In a blog post published Sunday, former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong-ho […]
OVER 10 MONTHS, she was caned, barred from using the toilet, forced to eat her own vomit and warned that her relatives could be killed if she complained. It was a life Moe Moe Than, 32, a domestic worker from Myanmar, never imagined when she arrived in Singapore in 2012. Last week, her Singaporean employers, […]
A delivery man in the passenger seat of a truck was killed on Sunday morning after he was thrown from the vehicle, which had rammed into a stationary car in the middle of a road in Tai Po. Police said the car was not moving on Tolo Highway because it had run into a kerb […]
Hong Kong could face a second wave of measles infections, a top disease expert warned on Monday, as health authorities stepped up vaccinations of workers at the city’s airport. The Centre for Health Protection has recorded 20 measles infections so far this year against 15 in all of 2018 five of them involving airport and […]
Soon after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen admitted to filing an official procurement plan for 66 F-16V to the US, President Trump reportedly provided a “tacit approval” to the matter, even though a formal proposal from Department of Defense and Department of State is needed for Congress to make further decisions. Before the process of the […]
The United States sent a guided-missile destroyer and a coastguard vessel through the Taiwan Strait at the weekend, the US Seventh Fleet said. It was the first such voyage involving a coastguard ship. “USS Curtis Wilbur and the coastguard cutter USCGC Bertholf conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit [on] March 24-25 in accordance with international […]
The United States sent Navy and Coast Guard ships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the US military said, as part of an increase in the frequency of movement through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China. The voyage risks raising tensions with China further but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a […]
* Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (CTG) will auction more than 15.1 million shares in Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade (Saigonbank) in the second quarter of this year. With the reserve price of VND20,100 per share, CTG expects to fetch nearly VND304 billion from the sale. The 15.1 million shares are equal to […]
Vietnam is advised to address key emerging factors in order to pursue its development path. Digitalisation has brought numerous changes in Vietnam since the first Internet connection in 1997, enabling the country to obtain a series of socio-economic achievements, mostly the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Nothing else but connection in all parts of the country […]
Among the Asean member economies, the smallest government bond markets were those of Vietnam and the Philippines, with each of their local currency government bonds outstanding still below the $100 billion mark, according to the Asian Development Bank’s latest issue of the quarterly Asia Bond Monitor. The publication reviews recent developments in emerging East Asian […]
