COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand tomorrow, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said. Rajapaksa flew to Singapore on July 14, via the Maldives, following unprecedented unrest triggered […]
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SINGAPORE: Just a year ago, Loh Kean Yew was ranked 40th in the world. Eliminated in the group stages of the men’s singles at the Tokyo Olympics, his last tournament win was two years prior. By his own admission, Loh was an unknown entity. The Singaporean’s claim to fame was […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s foreign minister said today that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit as an excuse to prepare for an invasion of the self-ruled island. Joseph Wu told a press conference in Taipei that Taiwan, which is claimed by […]
SHANGHAI: Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing today, including the Chinese autonomous region’s two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters were growing in tropical Hainan and in Xinjiang in China’s west. Subvariants of the highly transmissible Omicron are challenging China’s strategy of swiftly blocking the […]
TOKYO : Japan’s Fast Retailing, the owner of global clothing chain Uniqlo, said on Thursday it would open its first discount brand GU store in the United States this autumn. The store will open in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City in what will be the brand’s debut outside […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s Covid-19 winter outbreak fuelled by the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4/5 may have peaked early, Health Minister Mark Butler said today, as hospitals reported a steady fall in admissions over the past week. Australia is battling one of its worst flare-ups of the coronavirus driven by the fast-moving new […]
SEOUL : US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her South Korean counterpart vowed today to support efforts to maintain a strong deterrence against North Korea and achieve its denuclearisation. A joint statement was issued after Pelosi met South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo in Seoul, during which […]
LONDON: Liz Truss, the frontrunner to become Britain’s next prime minister, today scrapped a plan to tailor public sector pay to different regions less than a day after announcing it, following a backlash from many within her own party. Truss had vowed to save billions of pounds a year by […]
SINGAPORE: Former US Masters champion Patrick Reed will headline events in Singapore and South Korea as part of the Asian Tour’s new relationship with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, it was announced today. The American will play at the International Series Singapore from August 11 at Tanah Merah Country Club and the […]
LONDON: Rishi Sunak yesterday promised to get tough on China if he becomes Britain’s next prime minister, calling the Asian superpower the “number one threat” to domestic and global security. The former finance minister’s pledge comes after his rival in the final two of the race to lead the ruling […]