Hong Kong authorities have barred a pro-democracy lawmaker from running in a local election for “implicitly” supporting Hong Kong’s independence from China, in what critics said was another instance of civil rights being eroded in the China-ruled city
The Chinese government has taken aim at the wedding industrial complex, calling for a “comprehensive reform” of the country’s increasingly expensive weddings.
Taiwan has been trying to advance onto the world stage for many years, however it has been experiencing resistance. One of my articles that I found talks about the movement of US naval ships through the Taiwan Strait. Apparently this is the third time this year that the United States have sent ships through the strait which increases tension with… Read more »
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) – On a tiny island off Brunei’s northern tip on the South China Sea, thousands of Chinese workers are building a refinery and petrochemical complex, along with a bridge connecting it to the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. When completed, the first phase of the $3.4 billion complex on Muara Besar island, run by China’s Hengyi Group,… Read more »
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s election organizers said on Monday they will investigate a complaint against about 30 former opposition party members for calling for a boycott of Sunday’s general election. The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved last year, part of a wide-ranging crackdown by Prime Minister Hun Sen who is looking to secure his grip… Read more »
SYDNEY/HONG KONG, June 8 (TRLPC) – Singapore is preparing to launching a collateralised loan obligation (CLO) consisting of dozens of project financings across Asia Pacific in a bid to boost institutional investment in Asian infrastructure. According to a banker familiar with the matter, several key project finance banks have transferred assets totalling slightly under US$500m into the pool to kick-start… Read more »
An ongoing trade war has seen both countries impose duties of billions of dollars on one another’s goods. Over the weekend, a temporary truce was agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 meeting in Argentina. But concerns linger over discrepancies in information coming from either side. The US and China paused hostilities after… Read more »
MANILA — One of the founding members of a Philippine lawyers’ group at the forefront of opposing President Rodrigo Duterte’s lethal war on drugs was gunned down on Tuesday, killed by three bullets as he was leaving his office for the night. The attorney, Benjamin Ramos, 56, was the 34th lawyer killed since Mr. Duterte became president two years ago…. Read more »
In the Philippines, there is a lethal war on drugs that has been enacted by their President, Rodrigo Duterte. Recently, a lawyer leading the charge against this lethal drug war was shot three times and killed while he was leaving work. This was the thirty-fourth lawyer that has been killed since Duterte has come to power and pursued this war…. Read more »
Indonesian crash investigators say Lion Air, the country’s biggest budget airline, should have grounded plane. The pilots of a Lion Air plane that crashed into the sea shortly after take-off struggled to fly the jet because some of the aircraft’s automated systems had not been working properly for days and the airline failed to ground the plane to repair the… Read more »