Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their talks in Beijing, capital of China, July 2, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] HONG KONG – Chinese President Xi Jinping and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been awarded the title of “Man of the Year 2020” by Pakistan Observer based in […]
A woman cycles while her pet dog runs alongside her at a park in Singapore on Jan 15, 2021. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) KUALA LUMPUR / JAKARTA / DUBAI – Singaporeans should toss their yusheng raw fish dish into the air quietly in the traditional lohei celebration as they usher in the Year of the […]
Investigators inspect pieces of the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 retrieved from the Java Sea where the passenger jet crashed on Jan 9. (PHOTO / AFP) JAKARTA – Indonesia’s air accident investigator is probing whether a problem with the autothrottle system, that controls engine power automatically, contributed to the Sriwijaya Air crash on Jan 9 that […]
KUALA LUMPUR – The first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Digital Ministers' Meeting on Friday adopted the ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025 (ADM2025) to guide the group's digital cooperation from 2021 to 2025. In a joint declaration after the meeting, the ministers said the plan would prioritize ASEAN's recovery from COVID-19, connect businesses and facilitate […]
This Jan 8, 2021 shows Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a televised speech on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of 1978 revolt in Qom which ignited the Iranian Revolution. (PHOTO / AFP) DUBAI – The Twitter account of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday carried the image of a golfer […]
SYDNEY – Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for the right to use their content. Google's threat escalates a battle with publishers such as News Corp that is being […]
The ruling Mongolian People’s Party has nominated Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene as the next premier after Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his government resigned on Thursday, following protests against his government’s COVID-19 control measures erupted in the capital Ulaanbaatar. Oyun-Erdene received full support from members of the party who attended an online conference on Friday. PM Ukhnaa Khurelsukh proposed the resignation […]
People and security forces gather at the site of a deadly bomb attack in a market in Iraq, Jan 21, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) BAGHDAD / CAIRO / TEHRAN / VATICAN CITY – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least 32 people in Iraq’s first big […]
Reflections of people walking are seen on a building in Tokyo, Japan, on July 9, 2019. (KIYOSHI OTA / BLOOMBERG) TOKYO – Suicides increased in Japan during 2020 after a decade of declines, with the number of women committing suicide surging amid the emotional and financial stress caused by the coronavirus pandemic even as fewer […]
A Syrian woman, who was stranded following the closure of border due to the COVID-19 pandemic, waits with a child to cross into Iraqi Kurdistan from the Syrian side of the Semalka border crossing in northeastern Syria on July 29, 2020. (DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP) TEHRAN – Iran's UN envoy urged for "immediate" removal of […]
People and security forces gather at the site of a deadly bomb attack in a market in Iraq, Jan 21, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) BAGHDAD / CAIRO / TEHRAN / VATICAN CITY – Two men blew themselves up in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least 32 people in Iraq’s first big suicide bombing […]
This handout photo taken and released by the Indian Navy on November 18, 2020 shows an Indian army helicopter on the deck on an aircraft carrier during the second phase of the Malabar naval exercise in the Arabian sea. (INDIAN NAVY / AFP) NEW DELHI – India's defense ministry Thursday said a large-scale joint military […]
People wearing face masks walk through Chinatown in Bangkok on Jan 2, 2021, after the Thailand's capital imposed temporary lockdown measures aimed at curbing the rising coronavirus toll. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) ANKARA / DHAKA / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / KUALA LUMPUR / SEOUL / COLOMBO / DUBAI / MANILA / HANOI – Thailand approved AstraZeneca Plc’s […]
The National Transportation Safety Committee examine debris in Jakarta, on Jan 13, 2020. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) JAKARTA – Indonesian authorities said on Thursday the search for victims of a plane crash that killed all 62 people on board had been halted, but the hunt would continue for the Sriwijaya Air jet’s cockpit voice recorder […]
Thailand's Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit gestures as he talks to the media during a press conference at the party's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. (SAKCHAI LALIT / AP) BANGKOK – A banned Thai opposition politician, who is facing a criminal complaint of defaming the monarchy, defended on Thursday his criticism of the government's coronavirus […]
Japan's justice minister Katsuyuki Kawai speaks to journalists after submitting his resignation in Tokyo on Oct 31, 2019. (PHOTO / AFP) TOKYO – A Japanese court found on Thursday the lawmaker wife of a former justice minister guilty of vote-buying. Katsuyuki, under trial separately, has long had close ties to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who […]
In this Jan 5, 2017 file photo, workers stand on a stairway aboard an offshore oil platform in the Persian Gulf's Salman Oil Field, operated by the National Iranian Offshore Oil Co, near Lavan island, Iran. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) India is hoping US President Joe Biden’s administration will take a softer line against adversaries Iran […]
Mongolia's Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh (right) attends a conference on support measures for the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia, on March 27, 2020. (BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR / AFP) ULAN BATOR – Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh resigned on Thursday after outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient who had just delivered […]
This handout picture taken and released on Jan 19, 2021 by Indonesia's presidential palace shows Indonesian President Joko Widodo (second left) visiting Mamuju, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Jan 15. (HANDOUT / INDONESIA'S PRESIDENTIAL PALACE / AFP) JAKARTA – The death toll of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake which hit the Indonesian province […]
A picture taken on January 20, 2021 shows the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev (left), built in a suburb of the mostly Arab east Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp (right) behind Israel's controversial separation wall. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) RAMALLAH – A senior Palestinian official condemned on Wednesday an Israeli decision to construct […]
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shows up in the inauguration ceremony of the new Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora, in La Paz, on Nov 8, 2020. （PHOTO / AFP） TEHRAN – Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif welcomed on Tuesday night his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani's call for dialogue […]
A vial of the Covishield vaccine, developed by Oxford-Astrazeneca Plc and manufactured by Serum Institute of India Ltd, in a cool box at a vaccine center in the Bandra Kurla Complex hospital in Mumbai, India, Jan 16, 2021. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) TOKYO / KABUL / DHAKA / SEOUL / DUBAI / JAKARTA / JERUSALEM / […]
Farmers sit along a blocked highway as they continue to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on January 18, 2021. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP) A Supreme Court panel in India refused to issue orders on the government’s petition to stop a proposed rally by farmers […]
Thanathorn Juangroongruankit, former leader of the disbanded opposition Future Forward Party, stands next to an isolation chamber for COVID-19 coronavirus patients developed by engineers and being produced at his family’s factory in Bangkok on April 21, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) BANGKOK – Thailand’s government on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint of defaming the monarchy against […]
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on December 26, 2020, shows President Hassan Rouhani chairing the weekly coronavirus taskforce meeting in the capital Tehran. (IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP) DUBAI – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the incoming US administration on Wednesday to return to a 2015 nuclear agreement and lift sanctions on Tehran, while […]
London needs to have its own identity after the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, says Allen Simpson, managing director of London and Partners.
With a multimodal transport network, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor aims to provide a more cost-effective logistics choice for customers.
Antony Blinken said the incoming govt would look at ways to pressure the DPRK to come to the negotiating table over its nuclear weapons.
Iraq approved the use of Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines while Israel’s cabinet decided to extend its national lockdown for 10 days until Jan 31.
Chung Eui-yong, 74, will replace Kang Kyung-wha as foreign minister 5 months after his retirement as Moon Jae-in’s top foreign policy and security adviser.