Standard Chartered Bank is currently “bearish” on the Taiwan dollar, given Taiwan’s trade-dependent economy remains challenged amid a weakened global trade outlook and a “ratcheting up” of U.S.-China …
Security Guards Stand Outside a Taiwan Federation Building in Beijing, China
Chinese security guards wearing protective face masks stand outside the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots headquarters in Beijing on Wednesday, June 6, 2020. A top Chinese general has warned …
Brunei starts easing restrictions
DESPITE no new cases of Covid-19 and no infections for about three weeks, Brunei Darussalam is observing precautionary measures as the virus is still considered a threat.
Do Azerbaijan and Israel possess the secrets of a long life?
Yet Israeli and Azerbaijani researchers are among those investigating the secrets behind longevity. High in the mountain forests of Eurasia’s Caucasus region and down in the leafy lowlands of …
An Evil Tragedy: Why the Iran-Iraq War Was So Terrible
The British and other Western powers received a League of Nations mandate after World War I to carve up the remains of the Ottoman Empire and virtually rewrite the map of the Middle East. The Ottomans …
Kim Yo-jong warns South Korea to tackle ‘evil’ propaganda balloons
North Korean leader’s sister says continued air drops by defectors could jeopardise peacekeeping agreement …
Pyongyang warns South Korea to stop defectors from scattering anti-North Korea leaflets
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, warned of the possible scrapping of the inter-Korean military agreement that promised to eliminate practical threats of war as a result of the …
South Korea seeks arrest warrant for Samsung heir in merger probe
The move spells fresh legal trouble for Lee, who already faces trial on a charge of bribery aimed at winning support to succeed ailing group patriarch Lee Kun-hee, and which involved former President …
Med school students in South Korea caught cheating on online exams during coronavirus pandemic
A university in South Korea is taking disciplinary action after nearly 100 students were caught cheating on tests that were being administered online due to COVID-19.
Thailand’s one million health volunteers hailed as coronavirus heroes
Nearly every day, 77-year-old Surin Makradee goes door-to-door in her village in Thailand, visiting every home to check people’s temperatures in a routine repeated in communities across the country …