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Fed governor says Trump has no authority to fire her
AFP, Published on 26/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook rejected US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented bid to oust her on Tuesday, saying he had no legal authority for such an intervention against a member of the independent US central bank.
Fashion brand set to launch Phuket estate
Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 09/04/2025
» Etro, the Italian luxury fashion house, is set to launch its first branded residence in Thailand, which is its second development model of this type worldwide.
China set to reclaim third of global emerging-market stock gauge
Published on 06/01/2023
» China’s equities are poised to claim back a one-third weighting in a benchmark emerging-markets index, following a sharp outperformance sparked by an easing of strict Covid curbs and a pivot to pro-growth policies.
Stocks, pound up as Sunak poised to become new British PM
AFP, Published on 24/10/2022
» LONDON - Global stocks and the pound climbed on Monday as markets reacted to the news that former finance minister Rishi Sunak was to become Britain's new prime minister.
Year of Turbulence
Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021
» Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.
G7 leaders at UK summit target plan for 1bn jabs
AFP, Published on 11/06/2021
» FALMOUTH: G7 leaders on Friday open a three-day summit aimed at helping to end the Covid-19 pandemic and forge a climate-centric economic recovery, after pledging to donate one billion vaccine doses for the world's poorest countries.
Cruise Ships Still Have Their Fans, Even After Coronavirus
Business, Published on 13/07/2020
» Landlubbers who wrote this industry off for dead just don't get it.
On guard against terror
Asia focus, Published on 03/02/2020
» When President Donald Trump ordered American troops to withdraw last October from northeastern Syria, critics said the decision would play into the hands of terrorists, with ramifications beyond the Middle East.
Under Donald Trump, Fed faces politicisation
AFP, Published on 07/04/2019
» WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve has regularly faced criticism from Donald Trump, but in recent days the president took matters into his own hands -- raising concerns that the Fed is being politicised.
'Democracy' at odds with people's concerns in Sri Lanka
Asia focus, Published on 12/11/2018
» After Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced the shock decision on Oct 26 to appoint his longtime political foe Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister, Western diplomats and the international media expressed outrage at what they perceived as "lack of respect for democratic institutions".