TOKYO - Japan's premier Shinzo Abe headed to New York Thursday for talks with Donald Trump, the first leader to meet with the president-elect whose campaign pledges provoked anxiety over US foreign policy. The brash billionaire is set to receive...
HONG KONG/KUALA LUMPUR - Foreign banks in Malaysia on Thursday were trying to work out how to comply with the central bank's clamp-down on offshore ringgit trading, a move the broader market views as a form of capital controls. Form...
SEOUL - South Korea's parliament on Thursday approved a bill to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate a corruption scandal engulfing President Park Geun-hye, sharply raising political pressure on her to step down. The motion proposed by the main opposition...
"All I can do is pray as his mom and I came out here hoping that he can manage his condition well and get a good score he wants," she said. The November event, which includes mathematics, sciences and languages...
TOKYO - With a lucrative high-speed rail project on the line, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday made a strong sales pitch for his country's shinkansen bullet train technology at a meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak. The pitch...
Thais across the world are being invited to sing the Royal Anthem in honour of HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej next Tuesday. Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha will lead government officials in making a pledge to follow in His Majesty's footsteps...
China's online platform helps track down 260 missing kids More than 90 per cent of the missing children whose details were shared on an innovative web platform over the past six months have been located, the Ministry of Public Security...
Chinese websites have again blocked searches for "Fatty Kim the Third", as many Chinese mockingly call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with China's foreign ministry saying it did not approve of ridiculing foreign leaders. Chinese internet users began reporting...
KUMAMOTO - Selfies taken by an 88-year-old Japanese photographer have caused a buzz online, paving a way for her to give talk shows and exhibitions across Japan, reported Japanese daily The Mainichi. Ms Kimiko Nishimoto, a professional cyclist-turned-amateur photographer, only...
GENEVA - A pear-shaped pink diamond sold for 18.127 million Swiss francs (S$25.7 million) on Tuesday to an Asian collector bidding by telephone at an auction marked by "healthy prices", Christie's said. The top lot at its semi-annual Geneva sale,...
