By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China is ripping off America in trade and should be slapped with a fat import tax. U.S. military allies Japan and South Korea are freeloading and need to pull their weight. The pan-Pacific trade pact negotiated by the Obama administration is a “total disaster.” With characteristic brashness, […]
MUMBAI: Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow headquartered cyber security major has put Maxim Mitrokhin as the Asia Pacific head, the company said on Thursday. This comes at a time when the Kaspersky is pushing hard to increase its footprint in the cyber security segment and seeing huge growth in countries like Singapore, Malaysia and India. In […]
His story has been heard by millions since the 2014 launch of investigative podcast, “Serial,” turning listeners into armchair detectives. Adnan Syed was convicted in the 1999 murder of his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was found strangled in a Baltimore park. At age 17, Syed was arrested and later sentenced to life […]
Monkeys threw a wrench into Asian markets in the Lunar New Year’s first week of trading, with sharp sell-offs in Japan, Singapore, and Down Under on Wednesday. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 56.37 points, or 1.17 percent, to close at 4,775.70, extending Tuesday’s 2.88 percent drop. The market was weighed by the energy, materials […]
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen began her semiannual congressional testimony in the U.S. overnight, where she addressed mounting whispers about whether the Fed could implement negative interest rates as a way to boost economic activity. She said the central bank has not completely researched whether that would be legal. Asked if she foresaw the Fed […]
Over the past six years, I’ve been away almost more than I’ve been home. Chasing the World Cup and my Olympic dream often necessitated living out of a duffel bag. Yet despite my extensive travel schedule I had never been to Asia. This year I decided it was time for that to change. When you think of Asia […]
Amid a global market rout, investors in Asia appear to have stronger nerves than their counterparts around the world, with indications they’re adding to their emerging markets holdings. The Institute of International Finance (IIF) said Asia-based investors were actually net buyers of emerging market (EM) securities funds, investing about $3.85 billion since the start of […]
“We are quite excited about helping … perhaps mining companies in Australia look for capital in Asia – acting like a bridge to Asia.”: MillionaireAsia founder Brian Yim (right). Photo: MIllionaireAsia.com Brian Yim is hoping to use print media to create an investment bridge between Australia and other Asian countries. Mr Yim, the founder of MillionaireAsia […]
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman from Pakistan’s Punjab region, was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by hanging in 2010. On Wednesday, Pakistan’s highest court in Lahore stayed the execution and admitted a full hearing of the 50-year-old prisoner’s appeal, which her
husband had helped her launch. Bibi allegedly insulted the Prophet […]
BANGKOK— Pirates continue to hijack a coastal tanker on the average of once every two weeks to steal their cargo of fuel, according to data released Wednesday by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Center.
A total of 134 incidents of piracy and armed robbery globally were reported to the center from […]