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NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street ended the week with new records after Fed chairman Jerome Powell signalled the central
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WELLINGTON • New Zealand recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 yesterday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warning that the number
SHANGHAI • The authorities in Shanghai have quarantined hundreds of people in an attempt to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak
HANOI • Vietnam’s plan to prohibit residents of Ho Chi Minh City from leaving their homes starting tomorrow has triggered
BENGALURU • India’s drug regulator has granted emergency use approval for Zydus Cadila’s vaccine, the world’s first DNA shot against
ATHENS • Ms April DeMuth and her partner, Mr Warren Watson, had just finished what they described as the perfect
Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong has re-emerged in public a week after his release on parole, only to attend a trial
SEOUL • Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong walked out of prison visibly thinner and with more white hair. He had reportedly
WASHINGTON • US President Joe Biden has nominated Mr Nicholas Burns, a veteran foreign service officer and a former envoy
TAIPEI • Taiwan’s foreign minister accused China yesterday of wanting to “emulate” the Taleban, saying the island that Beijing claims
MELBOURNE • Australian police arrested yesterday hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney, with seven officers hospitalised as a
The race to succeed outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is intensifying, with a flurry of brokering and manoeuvring in
TOKYO • United States President Donald Trump has paid his “highest respect” to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned
Activist lawyer Arnon Nampa sang a medley of folk songs at a Bangkok police station on Friday. Holding a cordless
LONDONDERRY (New Hampshire) • Fresh from accepting the Republican nomination, US President Donald Trump had harsh words for anti-racism protesters
KENOSHA (Wisconsin) • Days after a Kenosha police officer shot Mr Jacob Blake, a black man, outside an apartment building,
NEW YORK • The National Basketball Association announced a plan to convert some of its arenas into polling places for
Kremlin critic’s condition improves BERLIN • The Berlin hospital treating leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said there was some
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to enable the federal government to cancel state and university deals with foreign governments
Malaysia’s largest ruling party Umno scored a thumping victory with 85 per cent of the votes in yesterday’s by-election in
KUALA LUMPUR • Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin called off last night’s highly anticipated launch of his Perikatan Nasional (PN) in
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Manufacturing activity in the United States contracted less than expected in March, but disruptions caused by the
SINGAPORE – SPH Reit (real estate investment trust) will be extending its relief scheme for tenants affected by the Covid-19
SINGAPORE – British technology giant Dyson has appointed a new chief executive officer, it announced on Wednesday (April 1). Mr