TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Tokyo broke a record for the number of days of severe heat in a year by the mid-point of summer, underscoring the extreme weather that’s put the Japanese capital’s power grid under strain. Temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius for the 14th time this year in Tokyo, breaking previous annual records of 13 […]
BANGKOK – Tourist arrivals in Thailand have been promising – with 3.12 million international travellers turning up in the first seven months of the year. The authorities and industry players are optimistic but the nation, which before the Covid-19 pandemic relied heavily on tourism, is not out of the woods just yet. “Honestly, I don’t […]
PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Asean ministers will push to ramp up pressure on Myanmar’s junta at a regional meeting on Wednesday (Aug 3) in Cambodia as the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan threatens to overshadow proceedings with tensions between Washington and Beijing soaring. The 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) – […]
KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – Malaysia’s annual population growth rate is expected to slow to 0.2 per cent in 2022 due to a decline in non-citizens entering the country during the pandemic. The number of foreigners, which accounts for 7.4 per cent of the total populace, is estimated to drop to 2.4 million this year from […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s competition watchdog urged the federal government on Monday (Aug 1) to consider curbing gas exports, warning its east coast could face a major shortfall next year which would pose a substantial risk to the country’s energy security. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters are expected to withdraw more gas from the domestic […]
BEIJING – Mr Chang Jinbao has been looking for a job for more than a year. The 23-year-old, who graduated in June last year with a specialist degree in construction, said he has been rejected by half a dozen firms.
KUALA LUMPUR – Come Monday, all bets are off again on what happens next in Malaysian politics. The confidence-and-supply agreement (CSA) on not dissolving Parliament, signed last year between the Ismail Sabri Yaakob administration and the main opposition alliance Pakatan Harapan (PH), expires tomorrow, leaving the government back on precarious ground and Malaysians with a […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan, Jul 29, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mazda Motor Corporation’s production and sales results for June 2022 and for January through June 2022 are summarized below. I. Production 1. Domestic Production(1) June 2022Mazda’s domestic production volume in June 2022 increased 1.3% year on year due to increased production of passenger vehicles. […]
BEIJING, July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via SEAPRWire.com) — Uxin Limited (“Uxin” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: UXIN), a leading nationwide online used car dealer in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. Dear Shareholders, On behalf of Uxin Limited, I would like to express […]
HONG KONG, July 26, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – The aging of the population is accelerating, pharmaceutical technology is constantly updating, and the development of the global pharmaceutical industry continues to accelerate. The pharmaceutical market is expected to maintain a growing trend. According to Frost & Sullivan, the global pharmaceutical market is expected to reach $1,711.4 […]
Migrants line up as they wait to be processed by US Border Patrol after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona in the early morning of July 11, 2022. Every year, tens of thousands of migrants fleeing violence or poverty in Central and South America attempt to cross the border into the United States. […]
KARACHI (NYTIMES) – Year after year in Kausar Niazi Colony, a slum in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan, Murtaza Hussain and his neighbours watched as monsoon rains flooded into their homes, damaging furniture, televisions and other precious valuables. So when particularly heavy monsoon rains began drenching Karachi earlier this month, Hussain braced for more […]
BEIJING, July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via SEAPRWire.com) — Uxin Limited (“Uxin” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: UXIN), a leading e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars in China, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 ended March 31, 2022 before the open of […]
KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – Malaysia is stable and is not at risk of going bankrupt like Sri Lanka, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said, citing the International Monetary Fund’s prediction for the economy to expand 5.75 per cent this year as reason for confidence. “The IMF has never said that Malaysia is facing economic troubles […]
KATHMANDU (THE KATHMANDU POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It’s been 13 years since Home-a documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer famous for his Earth from Above footage-debuted in 2009. The documentary aimed to highlight how humanity was threatening the ecological balance on earth and show where our planet was headed in 10 years due to […]
MIRPUR KHAS, PAKISTAN (AFP) – Mango farmers in Pakistan say production of the prized fruit has fallen by up to 40 per cent in some areas because of high temperatures and water shortages in a country identified as one of the most vulnerable to climate change. The arrival of mango season in Pakistan is eagerly […]
NEW DELHI – During his visit to India last month, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan highlighted the digital economy as an area where ties could grow between the two countries. That ambition will gain traction with the proposed linkage this year between Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) real-time payment systems, which will […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – Chinese regional officials need to prepare for potential disasters and ensure relief in a timely manner as the flood season reaches a critical period, a government official warned on Friday (July 8) after months of torrential rains nationwide. China routinely faces heavy flooding during its summer, but record-breaking rain in some regions […]
In this file photo taken on June 30, 2022 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures ahead of a meeting of The North Atlantic Council during the NATO summit at the Ifema congress center in Madrid. (GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by […]
HANOI (REUTERS) – Vietnam’s national assembly approved on Wednesday (July 6) a plan to cut environment tax on fuel by half for the second time in three months as soaring energy prices put pressure on inflation, state television reported. The extended cut, which will apply from July 11 to the end of the year, aims […]