BEIJING, July 10 - Localities across northern China are bracing for heavy rains, shutting parks and lowering water levels in reservoirs, as the powerful Typhoon Bavi continued to send moisture northward.
ANKARA, July 10 - Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that Turkey hopes to achieve a result on lifting U.S. sanctions and its desire to purchase F-35 fighter jets soon, adding there should be no defence industry restrictions between allies.
BEIJING, July 10 - China on Friday said it would step up cooperation with Namibia in the Southern African state's energy, farming, infrastructure, and minerals sectors during talks in Beijing between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.
See how the powerful storm is expected to move across east Asia on Saturday.
The Thai-flagged Mayuree Naree was hit on Mar 11 while travelling through the Gulf waterway early in the US-Israeli war with Iran, leaving three Thai crewmen dead and requiring 20 others to be rescued.
LONDON, July 10 - Countries should reject efforts by Iran to impose sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran's \"unilateral decision\" to create a body to control traffic through the waterway, the U.N. shipping agency's governing council agreed on Friday.
Protesters had blocked roads and torched vehicles since the girl's body was found on July 5.
With backlash against the artificial intelligence industry growing throughout the US, one government watchdog has created a database to help keep tabs on the people it describes as the biggest “AI villains.” The Revolving Door Project on Thursday launched a webpage that tracks
Shein’s last private fundraising round in May 2023 valued it at US$66 billion.
For over three decades, the standard playbook for taming inflation has remained virtually unchanged. Faced with surging prices, central banks invariably resort to hiking interest rates. The ripple effects are swift: demand cools, consumption slows and inflationary pressures
Three lions drowned and more than 100 animals went missing after floods hit the city.
BEIJING, July 10 - China announced on Friday a temporary export ban on helium, effective immediately, as resumption of military conflict in the Middle East threatens to trigger new shortages of the gas critical for chip manufacturing.
Authorities in India’s tech capital Bengaluru are banning the use of drinking water for non-essential activities including washing vehicles, watering gardens and construction work.
Heading for Taiwan and south-eastern China, the 1,000 km-wide Bavi is forecast to be one of the strongest storms in decades.
BEIJING/SEOUL, July 10 - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged China and North Korea to maintain \"strategic resolve\" amid a turbulent global environment and speed up implementation of agreements he reached with Kim Jong Un last month, Chinese state media reported.
South Korea's Ministry of Justice said 743 people obtained the visa after its pilot launch in January 2024.
From modern hanboks to Jeju's legendary sea women, discover how South Korea's oldest traditions are finding new life.
The treaty Australia and Fiji signed in Suva on July 6 is no ordinary defense pact. The Ocean of Peace Alliance, also known as the Veitacini Treaty, is explicit: An armed attack on either party in the Pacific is treated as a threat to shared security, and both governments have
BANGKOK, July 10 - Thailand's Labour Court on Friday accepted a petition from three Thai sailors seeking damages after a deadly attack on their cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz in March, during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, their lawyer said.
Candidates are also urging professionals based in S'pore and elsewhere to come back and work in Johor.
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. European carmakers have too much capacityDiego Faßnacht reports that Volkswagen’s retrenchment reflects a broader structural crisis in Europe’s auto industry, where
It does not address the possibility of a woman emperor, an idea that has wide public support.
TOKYO — The collapse of the US-Iran ceasefire is hitting Asia hard. Again. The region never really left the woods. It had been bracing for second-round shocks — surging food prices chief among them — so the calm around the Strait of Hormuz felt less like a resolution than a
The cryptocurrency exchange's co-CEO Richard Teng believes blockchain will be the future of financial services, but says wider adoption will depend on greater regulatory clarity and increased institutional participation.
COLOMBO, July 10 - Sri Lanka's efforts to reduce prison overcrowding by reopening a colonial jail and recruiting more staff after a deadly riot left 28 people dead need to be underpinned by a commitment to international best practice, human rights advocates said on Friday.
Sri Lanka’s prisons hold nearly 400 per cent over capacity.
By choosing German-Norwegian submarines over South Korean units, Canada did not just buy submarines—it chose the alliance architecture that will shape its place between the Atlantic and Pacific security orders. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Canada selected
GENEVA, July 10 - At least one million women and girls have lost access to life-saving support within the last year due to global donor aid cuts, a new United Nations report on Friday found.
Iran’s move on Hormuz is ultimately a short-term maneuver. And if it doesn’t get its act together soon, the whole region could turn against it. The new wave of US attacks against Iran has an undefined time frame, but at least a clear, limited objective – to reopen the Strait of
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) president Abdul Hadi Awang have all been campaigning for their respective coalitions in a final push for votes.
The former prime minister plans to voluntarily surrender despite facing a death sentence.
NEW DELHI, July 10 - Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in India around December and surrender.
The Jatiwaringin landfill in the Tangerang district west of Jakarta caught fire on June 30.
Both allegedly tried to carry cannabis flowers out of Thailand without completing necessary procedures.
The term “Blue continent” is used by Pacific Islands to describe a joint home and shared stewardship of the ocean.
The plant is estimated to be able to provide electricity for 100,000 households when operational.
LONDON, July 10 - UNESCO has urged governments and international lenders to expand debt-for-education swaps to help tackle a worsening education financing crisis, warning that 113 countries now spend more on servicing debt than on educating their populations.
DUBAI, July 10, - Preliminary investigations into the cell behind Tuesday's bombings in Damascus, near a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, indicate it was affiliated with Islamic State, a senior Syrian security official said.
The storms can disrupt transport, strain water and energy systems, and damage ecosystems.
It follows similar landings of reusable rockets by US-owned companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Chinese forces have used water cannons and cut anchor lines to drive Filipino fishermen away.
The test marks China’s first successful retrieval of an orbital-class rocket.
The South Korean chip giant's debut would be the largest US listing by a foreign firm.
The meeting will tackle Myanmar's civil war and its engagement with ASEAN after five years in the cold.