LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the US president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord. Having helped broker the 1998 deal, the United States remains an influential voice […]
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan will likely modify or end its bond yield control policy due to increasing side-effects such as the hit to financial institutions’ profits, former deputy governor Hiroshi Nakaso told a newspaper interview published on Sunday (Apr 9). The massive stimulus deployed by Haruhiko Kuroda, whose term […]
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday called on China to show restraint as Beijing launched military drills around Taiwan, stressing that Washington was ready to meet its security commitments in Asia. “Our channels of communication with the PRC remain open and we have consistently urged restraint and no change to the […]
PHNOM PENH: Vietnam will try its best to defend both men’s and women’s football championship titles at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32) in Cambodia, said General Secretary of the Vietnam Football Federation Duong Nghiep Khoi. In response to the press on the results of draws for Vietnam […]
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Poland would help form a coalition of Western powers to supply warplanes to Kyiv, as his fighters continued to defend their eastern bastion of Bakhmut in the face of relentless Russian assaults. During a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday (Apr 5), Zelenskyy said Poland […]
TOKYO: Atsushi Ikeda loves his car so much that he founded a club for Tesla owners, but his embrace of an electric vehicle makes him something of an outlier in Japan. As markets from China to the United States race to put more EVs on their roads, the pedal is […]
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE : Morgan Stanley said on Thursday it looks forward to setting up a futures company in China after the country’s securities regulator accepted its application. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) accepted Morgan Stanley’s application to open up a futures business in the world’s second-largest economy on Monday, according to […]
China says a meeting between US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will further damage Sino-US relations. BEIJING: China warned US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday (Apr 4) not to “repeat disastrous past mistakes” and meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, saying it would not help regional […]
SYDNEY: Australia on Tuesday (Apr 4) announced a ban on TikTok from all federal government-owned devices over security concerns, becoming the latest US-allied country to take action against the Chinese-owned video app. The ban underscores growing worries that China’s government could use the Beijing-based company, owned by ByteDance to harvest […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong today “firmly rejected” findings in a new US government report that said US interests had been threatened and that Beijing continued to “undermine” the rule of law and freedoms in the territory under a national security crackdown. The US’ 2023 Hong Kong Policy Act Report, published […]