SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said today he would consider suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military pact if North Korea violates its airspace again, Yonhap news agency reported, citing his press secretary. Yoon made the comment after being briefed on countermeasures to North Korean drones that crossed into the South […]
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BEIJING: Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China’s raging Covid-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the government’s mouthpiece newspaper today rallied citizens for a “final victory” over the virus. China’s axing of its stringent anti-virus controls last month has unleashed Covid on a […]
BEIJING: China’s manufacturing activity contracted sharply in December for the third month in a row, according to official figures released on Saturday (Dec 31), despite Beijing’s loosening of COVID-19 restrictions at the beginning of the month. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) – a key gauge of manufacturing in the world’s […]
BEIJING: Chinese state-media said Covid testing requirements imposed by several places around the world in response to a surging wave of infections were “discriminatory”, in the clearest pushback yet against restrictions that are slowing down its re-opening. Having kept its borders all but shut for three years, imposing a strict […]
China will scrap quarantine for travellers from 8 January, officials said, marking the last major shift from the country’s zero-Covid policy. Travellers wait with their luggage at Beijing Capital International Airport, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China December 27, 2022. After three years of closed borders, […]
CEO Elon Musk’s preoccupation with Twitter after taking over the tech firm in late October and his sell-off of Tesla shares to fund his Twitter purchase has also contributed to the plunge in stock price SINGAPORE: Tesla’s shares are at their lowest level in years, with the company’s shares dropping […]
SINGAPORE : Chinese refining giant Sinopec Corp has appointed Zhong Fuliang, vice president of its trading arm Unipec, as the new managing director of the unit, according to a company representative. Zhong, 54, replaces Chen Gang, who is set to hand over the managing director’s position in January after reaching […]
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday (Dec 30) he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit early next year in what would be a public show of solidarity from Beijing as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine falters. But an official Chinese readout of a video […]
SEOUL : Samsung Electronics plans to increase chip production capacity at its largest semiconductor plant next year, despite forecasts of an economic slowdown, a South Korean newspaper reported late on Sunday. The move contrasts with the scaling back of investment by rival chipmakers amid falling demand and a glut of […]
BEIJING: Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday (Dec 26), with China’s two biggest cities moving closer to living with COVID-19, as millions have been infected with the virus across the country. After years of ruthless anti-coronavirus curbs, President Xi Jinping scrapped the country’s zero-COVID policy […]