Vice-premier urges more US investment in talks with Goldman Sachs president
Published: 11:00am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 11:10am, 5 Dec 2024 Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng has been urging more investment from the United States to promote...
How a brazen US$1.1 billion nickel scam allegedly ensnared some of Singapore’s brightest
Published: 10:57am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 11:02am, 5 Dec 2024 When Ng Yu Zhi strode into Singapore’s elite circles, he was seen as a financial...
Trump’s Ukraine challenge will be bringing Putin to negotiating table: experts
A former senior diplomat in US president-elect Donald Trump’s first administration has called for increased pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to come to...
Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in 2 months
Cash-strapped Cuba on Wednesday was struggling to revive its power grid, after fixing a failure at the country’s largest power plant, which had caused...
Japan shows off new laser C-UAS vehicle
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) has unveiled a prototype laser-based mobile counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of...
Heir to billions but now a monk, Ananda Krishnan’s son returns to Malaysia for last goodbye
The son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who renounced his immense inheritance to pursue an ascetic life as a Buddhist monk in a monastery...
Hong Kong’s John Lee sacks tourism and transport ministers in unexpected move
Published: 10:26am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 12:43pm, 5 Dec 2024 Hong Kong’s leader has fired his tourism and transport ministers, Kevin Yeung Yun-hung and Lam...
TikTok Shop triples US sales on Black Friday despite looming ban
TikTok tripled its US shopping sales to more than US$100 million on Black Friday, a sign of the app’s growing popularity despite a looming...
China and Japan face ‘crisis’ in ties as they fail to adapt to ‘new reality’: ex-PM Fukuda
Published: 10:00am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 11:14am, 5 Dec 2024 Former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda has warned of a “crisis of dialogue, comprehensive understanding,...