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SEA Games : Wushu delivers Malaysia’s first gold
MANILA: Loh Choon How from the wushu squad delivered Malaysia’s first gold medal in the 2019 Philippine SEA Games. In this 30th edition of the SEA Games which officially opened yesterday, Choon How clinched the medal in the men’s taijiquan
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China dangles carrot ahead of Taiwan election, but many are sceptical
China is stepping up efforts to be nice to Taiwan ahead of key elections on Jan 11, offering better treatment to Taiwanese in China and urging the democratic island to “come home”, but many there only see Beijing wielding a
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Jokowi: I’m getting AI to replace top civil servants
JAKARTA: The Indonesian government is planning to redesign bureaucracy next year by removing two ranks of public servants and replacing them with artificial intelligence (AI), Xinhua news agency reported, quoting President Joko Widodo as saying yesterday. The current four echelon
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North Korea test-fires missiles to pressure US
Breaking a month-long lull in missile tests, North Korea fired two short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast yesterday in what appeared to be the latest try out of its new multiple rocket launchers, South Korea’s military said.
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Hong Kong gears up for weekend protests after rare lull in violence
Hong Kong braces for a fresh round of protests over the weekend as police said they would withdraw from a university today that has been the site of some of the worst clashes between protesters and security forces in nearly
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Talk to me: Counsellors help child workers win justice in India
JAIPUR: When counsellor Arti Sharma met a 10-year-old boy, whose father sold him for 500 Indian rupees (US$7) to work in a bangle factory, she expected tears – not a stony silence. It took her more than a week to
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Asian shares waver as Hong Kong tensions spoil the festive mood
Asian share markets wobbled today as concerns that tensions over Hong Kong may stymie a US-China trade deal cast a pall over Thanksgiving cheer from positive US economic data. US President Donald Trump yesterday signed into law legislation backing pro-democracy
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Hong Kong university siege winds down as hunt for protesters comes up empty
As the final searches for any pro-democracy protesters still hiding in Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University came up empty today, academic authorities prepared for the clean up following a near two-week siege of the campus by riot police. Police still guarded
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Oil slips as US stocks rise, but hopes for US-China trade deal stem losses
Oil eased today following an industry report showing a surprise build in US crude stockpiles, but hopes surrounding the signing of the first phase of a US-China trade deal prevented a bigger drop in prices. Brent crude futures LCOc1 dropped
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Asian shares climb on Trump trade deal comments
Asian shares rose today as upbeat signals from Sino-US trade talks fanned hopes of an easing of tariff hostilities, while expectations the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates low supported sentiment. The positive mood pushed Wall Street indexes to fresh
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