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Nearly 10 per cent of 1,396 items surveyed had immediate price adjustments.
Marriage registration slots for May 20 are fully booked in several major cities in China.
Beijing has avoided engaging Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which it sees as promoting independence, maintaining ties instead with the more China-friendly Kuomintang.
Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable economic growth rate of around 5% lies a structural anomaly carrying significant systemic risks. The accumulation of central government debt, now edging
The Vatican is one of only 12 countries to maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taipei.
The first US presidential visit to China in almost 10 years will test a fragile tariff truce.
The riot started after host Perspira Jayapura lost 1-0 to guest PS Adhyaksa Banten.
South Korea's standing forces have shrunk by 20 per cent in the past six years to 450,000.
TAIPEI, May 11 - Taiwan's coast guard said on Monday that it had disrupted \"illegal\" operations by a Chinese research ship in waters close to the island and driven it away, part of what Taipei sees a provocative pattern of China's stepped up maritime activities.
WELLINGTON, May 11 - New Zealand state-owned farming enterprise Pamu says it plans to convert 600 hectares (1,483 acres) of farmland into native forest to generate high-quality nature credits, following a government move on Monday to support a voluntary nature credits market.
There is a familiar parlor game underway in Washington and Tel Aviv, played with renewed enthusiasm now that Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have once again merged their parties under the banner Beyachad, and the polls are showing — as they have for months — that Benjamin
Prime Minister Modi’s party expands reach, leaving India’s fractured opposition struggling.
A Dutch expedition cruise ship, the MV Hondius, docked in Tenerife on Sunday after weeks adrift with three deaths and eight hantavirus cases on board. The strain involved is the Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to transmit between humans. The World Health Organization has
KATHMANDU, May 11 - A minor fire broke out on a tyre of a Turkish Airlines plane after it landed on Monday in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, authorities said, forcing the closure of the airport for an hour.
A conviction in the Senate would ban her from politics for life and remove her from office.
Pakistan’s new Fatah-3 missile may signal the emergence of Islamabad as China’s frontline broker for conventionally armed counterforce warfare from Kashmir to the Persian Gulf. This month, multiple defense outlets reported that Pakistan publicly unveiled the Fatah-3 supersonic
Thailand is facing its most severe and difficult-to-predict climate variability in several years.
When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the choreography will almost certainly be familiar: firm handshakes, oversized rhetoric, carefully calibrated symbolism and declarations about “historic” economic
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, May 11 - The Australian government said on Monday it would repatriate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus, with the passengers to be quarantined after they arrive in the country.
It is not known if any of those being brought to Australia have fallen ill.
The idea appeared in an online comic nearly a decade ago.
A QR code tracking system allows buyers to trace each fruit orchard within seconds.
The issue of democratically governed Taiwan is certain to come up during the Trump-Xi summit.
TAIPEI, May 11 - Taiwan is \"confident\" in the stable development of its ties with the U.S. and Washington has repeatedly said its policy towards the island will not change, Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Monday of U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming China trip.
They are set for high-stakes talks on Iran, trade, Taiwan and AI tensions.
Debris believed to be from the objects’ engines has been recovered and will undergo further analysis.
The Americans were convicted on drug charges after what their families say were “blind mule” scams.
Thaksin seems incapable of taking a back seat. This time, it really could be different.
He walked out of prison at 8.40am Singapore time and was surrounded by family members and supporters.
BANGKOK, May 11 - Thailand's influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released from prison on Monday, after about eight months behind bars following a court ruling that deemed he had wrongfully stayed in hospital to avoid jail time.
This genre of videos usually shows human-like objects engaging in extramarital affairs.
Though Vijay campaigned only briefly, his fan club-turned-digital “warriors” amplified him online tirelessly.
The 76-year-old is being paroled after serving eight months in prison for corruption.
Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's early release from prison raises the prospect of a return to the spotlight for the political heavyweight.
The war in the Middle East has hit Southeast Asia’s energy, fertiliser and food supply simultaneously, prompting new regional solutions - but turning them into action could prove difficult, say observers.
Govt scheme supporting lower-income has lost most of its operators amid rising costs .
Taiwan's Parliament approved extra defence spending of US$25 billion (S$32 billion) on May 8.
May 10 - A rare earths deal between the United States and China is still in effect and an extension will be announced at the appropriate time, a senior U.S. official told reporters on Sunday.
May 10 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged a spate of measures including fuel conservation, work-from-home practices and limits on travel and imports, as a surge in global energy prices puts pressure on the country's foreign exchange reserves.
The US treasury secretary also said he would have talks with the Japanese prime minister and her finance minister before heading to Beijing.
Mr Timothy Heng put others before himself, and his family has found comfort in knowing that he spent his last moments trying to help someone else, his step-sister told CNA.
The tourists were in a minibus that had left Mount Bromo, local media reported.
MOSCOW, May 10 - Russia accused Armenia on Sunday of providing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with \"a platform for anti-Russian remarks\", in a further sign of a chill in relations between traditional allies Moscow and Yerevan.
A week ago, Seoul reported a blast and fire aboard the same vessel in the strait.