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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A policeman stands guard outside a warehouse where three women were crushed to death in a stampede while waiting to receive a cash donation in Colombo, Sri Lanka. COLOMBO: Three women were trampled to death during a stampede for a US$8 cash handout in Colombo on Thursday (May 21), […]
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 […]
SINGAPORE: Progress Singapore Party (PSP) secretary-general Tan Cheng Bock on Thursday (May 21) addressed recent reports of members who had resigned or were expelled, saying that their departures were “no big deal” to the one-year-old opposition party. There have been people with “big egos” who joined PSP out of self-interest, […]
Pedestrians walk under a television screen in Hong Kong showing a news broadcast of Chinese President Xi Jinping. WASHINGTON, DC: The United States on Thursday (May 21) urged China to respect Hong Kong’s autonomy, warning that its proposed national security law for the city would be “highly destabilising” and […]
ROME: Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus in March and April could be nearly 19,000 higher than the official figure of 32,000, the national social security agency said on Thursday (May 21). The Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS), the largest social security and welfare institute in Italy, said […]
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, […]
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 […]
An Italian woman has won a painting by Pablo Picasso, worth about €1m (£900,000; $1.1m), in a raffle after being given the ticket as a gift. The winning ticket was pulled out during a live draw at Christie’s auction house in Paris. The event, which was fundraising for Care charity, […]
Which sector of the economy do you think is being hardest hit by the coronavirus – construction, retail, transport or catering? Well, you are all wrong, and need to do some more homework. The answer is – education. Many people probably don’t even think of education as part of the […]