Bangladesh’s economy faces a perfect storm with double-digit inflation pinching wallets, foreign exchange reserves dwindling and economic growth fading away. To weather the crisis, the government is desperately seeking foreign loans. Enter China into the eye of the tempest. With a timely US$5...
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Monday officially began the selection of new senators, a process that has become part of an ongoing war between progressive forces hoping for democratic political reforms and conservatives seeking to keep the status quo. Hopeful candidates headed to district offices across...
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Dene-Hern Chen and Amber Wang May 20, 2024 May 20, 2024 Updated 5 mins ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email The inauguration ceremony will take place Monday morning at the Japanese colonial-era Presidential Office Building in Taipei Yasuyoshi CHIBA Lai Ching-te has toned down his rhetoric and...
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For the Kremlin, it was all meant to be so different. The war in Ukraine initially envisioned by Vladimir Putin was to be completed in weeks, if not days. But you do not retain power in Russia for more than 20 years without learning how to adapt to changing circumstances, and the last two years have...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Friday, South Korea’s military said, a day after South Korea and the U.S. flew powerful fighter jets in a joint drill that the North views as a major security threat. South Korea's Joint Chiefs...
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Authorities in New Caledonia have described the situation in the French Pacific territory as “calmer” after Paris declared a state of emergency in response to violence that erupted on Monday night over plans to change provincial voting rules. The officer of the high commissioner of New Caledonia,...
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Taipei, Taiwan – Even as Taiwan prepares for the inauguration of its eighth president next week, it continues to struggle over the legacy of the island’s first president, Chiang Kai-shek. To some, Chiang was the “generalissimo” who liberated the Taiwanese from the Japanese colonisers. To many...
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Indonesian authorities seeded clouds on Wednesday, trying to prevent further rain and flash floods after deluges that hit the country's Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 58 people dead and another 35 missing. Monsoon rains triggered a landslide of mud and cold lava from...
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