SEOUL, May 22 - South Korea's Interior Minister said his ministry would stop offering products from companies that \"make light\" of the country's democratic history, after a public outcry over a Starbucks Korea marketing campaign that evoked a brutal 1980 military crackdown on
Temperatures sizzled at 45.3 deg C in the capital New Delhi on the afternoon of May 21.
The structure drew comparisons from media and tourists to the fantastical creations of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.
Initial findings suggest the fire was caused by a short circuit on the rooftop.
Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was ordered to repay US$27 billion (S$34.5 billion) in damages.
KATHMANDU, May 22 - A British climber improved his own Everest record on Friday and notched his 20th ascent of the world’s highest mountain, hiking officials said.
He first climbed Everest in 2004 and has since repeated the feat every year.
Taiwan is waiting on an US$14 billion weapons deal that President Trump is keeping on hold.
The museum is open from 10am to 5pm and is closed on Tuesdays, except on national holidays.
The vote will run through May 27 and around 70,000 members are expected to be eligible to vote.
As the Philippines looks to boost tourism, authorities have increasingly promoted immersive cultural experiences centred on traditional arts and weaving.
Participants were given online counselling by a psychologist appearing on screen as an anime avatar.
A protracted blockade in the Hormuz Strait leaves the South-east Asia desperately short of fuel.
By the morning of May 21, the death toll from heavy rains stood at 16.
Takaichi has said Japan remains open to dialogue with China, but Beijing has not responded to her overtures.
While the group is expected to reach Damascus, it remains unclear when they might travel to Australia.
Goldman helped 1MDB sell US$6.5 billion of bonds and collected an estimated US$600 million in fees.
The summit bonanza comes after a late start to this climbing season due to earlier route obstructions.
There are concerns that supply of naphtha may become scarce due to the situation in the Middle East.
Experts say potholes were caused by heavy vehicle loads, poor utility excavation works, among other factors.
The World Bank expects fertiliser prices to rise in 2026, pushing affordability to its worst since 2022.
The two sides exchanged views on the Ukraine crisis, according to a ministry readout of the meeting.
BEIJING, May 22 - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told visiting Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Mihai Popsoi that Beijing \"cherishes\" ties with the Eastern European country and aims to deepen them, a statement on Friday said, despite differences over Russia's invasion of
It was the second time in recent decades that Reikado Hall, near Hiroshima, has burned down.
The next step would entail setting Manus up as a Chinese joint venture, ahead of a Hong Kong IPO.
Chinese online gamers and hobbyist artificial intelligence (AI) developers have been dealt a setback as Beijing banned the import of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090D V2, a graphics card specifically engineered for the Chinese market to comply with United States export rules, dealing
Back-to-back visits by US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin put a spotlight on Chinese power, but whether China will use it in the Ukraine and Iran wars remains to be seen, says war studies lecturer Samir Puri.
Indian carriers are facing a sharper squeeze than many global peers as fuel costs, airspace disruptions, currency weakness and limited hedging leave them with little room to absorb shocks, say analysts.
Bewildering policies and authoritarian tendencies by President Prabowo Subianto are steering Indonesia toward a mix of currency instability and political chaos, says Karishma Vaswani for Bloomberg Opinion.
The disgraced tycoon is serving a life sentence for embezzling from a major Vietnamese bank.
Melody candy went viral after the two countries’ right-wing leaders played up a portmanteau of their names, “Melodi”.
The Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a uniquely Hong Kong celebration rooted in Taoist tradition.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies Tell me lies Tell me, tell me lies Oh no-no, you can’t disguise – Fleetwood Mac Perfidy. There is no other word to describe the assassination of Iran’s leadership while negotiations were ongoing. It does not matter how evil they were, nor
TOKYO — Few market visuals are more striking than the South Korean won and the Kospi index suddenly tearing off in opposite directions. The won has slumped 4.5% this year, putting it among Asia’s weakest currencies. The Kospi, meanwhile, has exploded — up 85% since Jan. 1 and
Heavy US aircraft losses in the Middle East are raising fresh doubts about whether US airpower can withstand sustained attrition in a future Pacific war against China. This month, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report stating that the US has reportedly
WASHINGTON, May 21 - President Donald Trump vowed on Thursday that the United States will eventually recover Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium despite comments from Iran that it will not hand over the material.
China’s leader Xi Jinping made a publicity splash last week during the visit to Beijing of US President Donald Trump when he referred to a book titled The Thucydides Trap about the ancient Greek historian’s treatise on war. The book’s author, Harvard professor Graham Allison,
Several tourists suffered from smoke inhalation.
The energy crisis has been a wake-up call for Japan and spurred it into architecting a more resilient Indo-Pacific region.
Singapore could soon benefit from China’s expertise and dominance in this field as Chinese firms look abroad for future growth.
LONDON, May 21 - A Chinese-operated container ship was among the few to cross the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, data showed on Thursday, as uncertainty grows around reopening the critical waterway with talks over a deal between the U.S. and Iran deadlocked.
BUENOS AIRES, May 21 - U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Mast has warned U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio of “Chinese malign influence” in a bid for a major contract in Argentina, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
The trio allegedly made fraudulent declarations about AI servers in order to ship them to China.
Russia today wants to intensify its relationship with China and complains that China is not equally warm in return, treating Russia as a junior partner. Francois Godement observed acutely that Russia had “let out some public anxiety about China’s behavior. On May 16, RT, the
Far-right internet users posted photos of themselves holding Starbucks coffee or tumblers.
MANILA, May 21 - The Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday it would apprehend a top politician wanted by the International Criminal Court \"without delay\", a day after a court rejected his petition seeking to block his arrest.
Investigators concluded that conversations shared as proof of a relationship had been manipulated.
Residents of Phum Boeung village said they have been marking the occasion for generations.