Oxfam rejects Singapore defense of low taxes Jack Kim 2 MIN READ SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oxfam on Wednesday rejected Singapore’s defense of its low taxes after the NGO ranked the wealthy city state among the 10 worst-offending countries in fuelling inequality with its low-tax regime. FILE PHOTO: A view of the central business district in Singapore May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar… Read more »
Quake kills three people in Indonesia’s Java, rattles Bali 2 MIN READ NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – A magnitude 6 earthquake struck off the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, killing three people in Java and damaging some buildings while causing panic among residents. SPONSORED Patients sit at an open area after… Read more »
South Korea’s foreign minister said that Seoul is considering lifting some of its unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang to create more momentum for diplomacy aimed at improving relations and defusing the nuclear crisis. Kang Kyung-wha on Wednesday told lawmakers that the government is reviewing whether to lift sanctions South Korea imposed on the North in 2010 after a deadly attack on… Read more »
China’s far-western Xinjiang region has revised its legislation to allow local governments to “educate and transform” people influenced by extremism at “vocational training centres” – a term used by the government to describe a network of internment facilities known as “re-education camps”. The change to the law, which took effect on Tuesday, comes amid an international outcry about the secretive… Read more »
How do you measure the value and success of the economy? Traditionally, by reporting on gross domestic product – the amount an economy produces of goods like cars and services like tourism. But, since the financial crisis that measure has been questioned. It can go up – showing growth – while at the same time people’s actual incomes are going… Read more »
One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. These disturbing images are the work of children at a primary school in Can Tho province, a region of Vietnam that is regularly swamped. They live… Read more »
Myanmar’s neighbours in Southeast Asia have urged the country to hold those responsible for the Rohingya crisis “accountable”, Singapore said Tuesday, in a rare call for justice from within the region. Around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state have fled across the border to Bangladesh since August last year following a military campaign that allegedly involved murder, rape,… Read more »
In recent Cambodian news, Prime Minister Hun Sen has insinuated that his son, Hun Manet, may succeed him in the coming future. The issue with this is that in the eye of the international community, Hun Sen’s rise to power is seen as undemocratic. Hun Sen is also still under fire for not reinstating the Cambodian National Rescue Party after… Read more »
Hong Kong has refused to renew a work visa for the Asia news editor of the Financial Times, sparking concerns from the UK government. Victor Mallet is also vice-president of the city’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC), which upset local and Chinese authorities by hosting a separatist speaker in August. Hong Kong did not explain its visa decision. China is highly… Read more »
India has deported seven Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, despite last-minute appeals that doing so put them at risk. The men had been detained since 2012 for immigration violations. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court refused to step in to stop their deportation. At least 700,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar in the past… Read more »