MANILA — The Philippines expanded the area of a declared measles outbreak on Thursday from the highly populated capital to nearby regions, after a steady rise in infections and deaths attributed to the disease in recent weeks. The government’s Epidemiology Bureau raised the “red flag” after an increase in infections in the capital, Manila, as well as the northern and… Read more »
The world’s largest maker of industrial computers, Taiwan’s Advantech, plans to boost US production to combat the hit from the trade war. Executive director Chaney Ho told the BBC the firm would avoid tariffs – imposed on 40% of its goods – if it assembled more products in the US. The company is one of many rethinking their supply chains… Read more »
A UN trade official has warned a US plan to raise tariffs on Chinese goods next month would have “massive” implications for the global economy. The US plans to increase tariffs on Chinese goods if the two sides fail to make progress on a trade deal by 1 March. The comments followed a report by a UN trade agency on… Read more »
Top trade officials from the US and China are meeting in Washington as a deadline to strike a deal approaches. This is the second round of talks since Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Argentina last year and agreed to negotiate in the hope of defusing an escalating tariff war. There is widespread scepticism that the two sides… Read more »
China’s trade delegation says it made “important progress” in the latest round of talks with the US, China’s state media reports. At the end of a two-day meeting in Washington, no deal was reached but China pledged to buy more US soybeans. US President Donald Trump touted the promise as proof that the two sides were making progress. They are… Read more »
The head of South Korea’s top sports body has apologised for a litany of sexual assault cases between young athletes and their coaches and vowed to impose lifetime bans on offenders. The move comes after double-Olympic short-track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee, 21, accused her former coach last week of raping and sexually molesting her multiple times, prompting several other victims… Read more »
A senior American negotiator arrived in North Korea on Wednesday to sort out crucial details for a nuclear summit meeting in Vietnam between President Trump and the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, with only three weeks to go before the talks take place. Stephen Biegun, the Trump administration’s special representative for North Korea, arrived in Pyongyang, the North’s capital, around the… Read more »
Human rights groups called on Monday for a United Nations investigation into China’s mass detention of Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang, seeking to galvanize an international response to allegations of widespread abuses. The rights organizations, presenting the issue as a test of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s credibility, urged it to set up an international fact-finding mission… Read more »
The couples will file suits on February 14 in at least four cities, including Tokyo, claiming the government is violating their constitutional rights to equal treatment, said one of their lawyers, Yoshie Yokoyama. “The constitution gives you the right to pursue happiness and equality before the law,” Yokoyama said in a phone interview from Tokyo. “Not recognising same sex marriage… Read more »
The trade war between the United State and China rages on as both nations continue to add tariffs onto the other in hopes of negatively affecting their global economic outreach. While some believe that these tariffs are an effective method of bringing jobs back to the United States, a recent report stated that the United states would gain less than… Read more »