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Fragile unity pushes Myanmar junta to the brink
Reuters, Published on 18/04/2024
» MYAWADDY - Myawaddy, a critical trading post in Myanmar that rebel forces seized from the ruling junta last week, offers a glimpse of dynamics playing out across the Southeast Asian country as its vaunted military reels from battlefield losses.
Singapore, Malaysia weigh passport-free travel
Reuters, Published on 11/01/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia and Singapore agreed to jointly develop a special economic zone and explore a range of measures including passport-free travel to boost trade between the neighbours that each count the other as the No. 2 trading partner.
Thailand still bullish on Chinese investments
Reuters, Published on 17/10/2023
» Chinese investment in Thailand has picked up pace this year despite an economic slowdown in the Asian giant, a welcome boost for Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin who flew into Beijing this week to bolster ties with its largest trading partner.
AstraZeneca US trial data a confidence booster
Reuters, Published on 22/03/2021
» LONDON/TAIPEI: AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine performed better than expected in a major late-stage trial potentially paving the way for its emergency authorisation in the United States and bolstering confidence in the shot after numerous setbacks in Europe.
450-year-old Oxford pub succumbs to Covid
Reuters, Published on 25/01/2021
» OXFORD, England: A historic pub in the centre of Oxford that has served students, scholars and literary greats for over 450 years is to shut down, a cultural casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic.
China culls more pigs as authorities race to trace source
Reuters, Published on 24/08/2018
» BEIJING: China is culling over 1,300 pigs as authorities rush to control a fourth outbreak of African swine fever and try to trace the origins of the virus that first struck the world's largest hog herd three weeks ago.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
China urges US to 'pull back from brink'
Reuters, Published on 23/03/2018
» BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China urged the US on Friday to "pull back from the brink" as President Donald Trump's plans for tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese goods brought the world's two largest economies closer to a trade war.
Trump isolated on climate issue as G20 begins
Reuters, Published on 07/07/2017
» HAMBURG - US President Donald Trump arrived for a G20 summit in Hamburg on Thursday risking isolation on climate policy and the wrath of anti-capitalist protesters threatening to disrupt the meeting of the world's leading economic powers.
Germany opposes unilateral tariffs on imports
Reuters, Published on 06/02/2017
» BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was opposed to unilateral steps to impose tariffs on imports, adding that should the new US administration back such protectionist measures Germany would have to decide how to respond.