It’s been a mournful start to 2019 for two of Asia’s richest families. Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who began as a coconut and palm-oil trader at age
Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, in his first interview since his arrest in November, blamed fellow executives opposed to forging closer ties with the automaker’s French
DEC. 1: Canada arrests Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company’s founder, at America’s request on a stopover at Vancouver airport. The U.S. is reported
U.S. and Chinese negotiators start two days of high-level talks today aimed at settling a six-month trade war that has weakened both sides, shaken financial
A Chicago newspaper reported that a lengthy federal court affidavit says the FBI secretly recorded Illinois’ powerful House speaker in 2014 discussing a hotel development project and the
China has banned the wife of a Taiwanese human rights activist jailed in China from visiting him for three months due to alleged improper behavior, a
A South Korean woman who was forced as a girl into a brothel and sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War II was mourned yesterday by hundreds
Thai officials shut hundreds of schools in Bangkok yesterday as some of the world’s most toxic air hung over the city. The metropolis of about 10
Chinese President Xi Jinping already had plenty of reasons to rethink his grand plan to build railways, ports and other infrastructure across the globe. Malaysia has given
British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday won a few weeks to salvage a Brexit deal but headed toward a clash with the European Union by promising
The clouds darkened over Europe’s slowing economy as the German government slashed its growth forecast and said concerns about a chaotic Brexit and trade tensions were
Directly contradicting President Donald Trump, U.S. intelligence agencies told Congress yesterday that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, that the Islamic State group
Drivers and front seat passengers must wear seatbelts under a new law which came into force at midnight. The Department of Transport says 30,000 people
Christina Aguilera is joining the growing number of musicians launching residencies in Las Vegas. The singer announced this week that “Christina Aguilera: The Xperience” will open at Zappos
NEWCASTLE 2, MAN CITY 1 Rafa Benitez never won the Premier League in his six years with Liverpool but he has done his old team a
Rugby’s world governing body says “positive and productive” meetings have taken place between officials from the sport’s top nations regarding the introduction of a new global competition.
The Trump administration is calling on China to immediately release a jailed human rights lawyer who was convicted of subverting state power. The State Department says in
Kate del Castillo said she’s relieved she wasn’t called to testify in the New York trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. But
For many people, especially ladies, every weekend is shoe shopping time. But in the last week of the lunar year, there are even more reasons
PHILIPPINES A grenade was thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines where Muslim teachers were sleeping early yesterday morning, killing two of them and injuring four, authorities
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