Military delegates leave the Great Hall of the People after a meeting ahead of National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s annual session of parliament, in Beijing, China, on Mar 4, 2019. BEIJING: China’s defence spending this year will rise 6.6 per cent from 2019, according to a report issued at the […]
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BEIJING: China refrained from setting a 2020 gross domestic product growth target and pledged to step up spending and financing to support its economy, according to Premier Li Keqiang’s work report released on Friday (May 22) at the start of the annual parliament meeting. Given “great uncertainty” caused by the […]
The former site of Bedok North Secondary School. SINGAPORE: The former Hong Kah Secondary School and Bedok North Secondary School sites are among “a number” of Ministry of Education (MOE) sites that will be used as temporary facilities to house migrant workers “who are well”, said the ministry on […]
KOLKATA/DHAKA: The most powerful cyclone to strike eastern India and Bangladesh in over a decade killed at least 84 people, officials said, as rescue teams scoured devastated coastal villages, hampered by torn down power lines and flooding over large tracts of land. Mass evacuations organised by authorities before Cyclone Amphan […]
WASHINGTON, DC: US doctors and others in the scientific community are calling for the release of data that convinced health regulators to authorise emergency use of Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19, so they can direct limited supplies on the right patients. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc Chief Executive […]
File photo of US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper (left), President Donald Trump (centre) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army General Mark Milley (right) at the White House on Oct 7, 2019. WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty, […]
US President Donald Trump has been locked in a bitter spat with Beijing, alleging it covered up the initial coronavirus outbreak in central China late last year. WASHINGTON, DC: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (May 20) again lashed out at China over the coronavirus pandemic, blaming Beijing for […]
The eastern Indian city of Kolkata has been devastated by a powerful cyclone. Cyclone Amphan made landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people as it lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain. Many of Kolkata’s 14 million people are without electricity and communications […]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday (May 21) accused China of employing border clashes with India to try to shift the status quo, and encouraged New Delhi to resist. Alice Wells, the top US diplomat for South Asia, drew parallels between the growing skirmishes in the Himalayas and Beijing’s years […]
Cyclone Amphan has made violent landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh, lashing communities along the coast with ferocious wind and rain. It uprooted trees and toppled dwellings in both countries, including in the Indian city of Kolkata in West Bengal. Nearly three million people were evacuated – most of them […]