IKEA says founder Ingvar Kamprad has died at 91

Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who turned a small- scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said yesterday.

Brazil overtakes the US, becomes main supplier of soy to China

Brazil overtook the United States in 2017 to become the main soybean supplier to China, with 50.9 million tons, a figure that is a 33.3 percent increase

1,500 evacuated while WW2 bomb defused

Around 1,500 people were evacuated from Hong Kong’s Wan Chai area over the weekend, while bomb disposal officers spent 12 hours neutralizing an unexploded World War Two bomb

Hong Kong | Young pro-democracy hopeful banned from election

The Hong Kong government barred a young pro-democracy activist on Saturday from an upcoming election over her party’s political platform that it said violates electoral laws, in

It’s ‘complicated:’ Beijing’s N. Korea envoy on lack of visit

China’s chief envoy for North Korean affairs said Friday the reasons he hasn’t visited Pyongyang are “complicated” but that China remains committed to finding a diplomatic solution

Offbeat | Finns to lobby EU for abolition of daylight saving time

Finland says it will lobby for the abolition of daylight saving time within the European Union after more than 70,000 Finns signed a petition last year. Anne

Japan foreign minister hopes for improved ties with China

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono expressed hopes for improved relations with China during talks yesterday in Beijing that also touched on joint efforts to counter North Korea’s

India | ASEAN leaders watch national day parade

Ten Southeast Asian leaders watched a parade and stunt performances as India celebrated Friday’s anniversary of its national constitution taking effect. Marching bands, floats, military hardware, camels and

Cambodia | Foreigners charged after pornographic dance arrests

Cambodian prosecutors charged 10 foreigners yesterday with producing pornographic pictures after they were arrested at a party in Siem Reap town, near the country’s famed Angkor Wat

Grim reminders of a war in Vietnam, a generation later

It’s been over for 40-plus years, the war that Americans simply call Vietnam but the Vietnamese refer to as their Resistance War Against America. Yet

Kiribati – New Zealand | Seven rescued from life raft in Pacific Ocean after ferry sank

Six adults and an unconscious baby were rescued yesterday from a life raft in the Pacific Ocean after drifting for four days in the blazing sun without

UK ‘old boys’ club rocked by sexual misconduct accusations

Britain’s financial “old boys” club was rocked by its own sexual harassment scandal last week after a Financial Times investigation found that female hostesses were groped

Holocaust remembered as warning amid far-right resurgence

Holocaust survivors wearing striped scarves that recalled their uniforms as prisoners of Nazi Germany placed candles on the train tracks carried people to their deaths at Auschwitz

This Day in History | 1996 – France halts nuclear testing

The French President, Jacques Chirac, has said France will no longer test nuclear weapons. The announcement comes a day after France exploded its sixth and biggest

Tennis | Federer beats Cilic; wins 20th major title

Roger Federer has won his 20th Grand Slam singles title yesterday with a 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Marin Cilic in the Australian

Venezuela | Former pitcher dies amid lack of medication

A former Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins pitcher died in his native Venezuela of pneumonia that baseball colleagues say was made worse by medicine shortages in the

World briefs

BANGLADESH Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is in Bangladesh on a visit to sprawling refugee camps for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar.

The Buzz | French towns swim in floodwaters that are rising in Paris

Floodwaters have transformed the streets of scenic French towns into murky canals, swallowed up picturesque parks and drained the demand for riverboat cruises through Paris. And the waters

US calls for release of missing Chinese bookseller

President Donald Trump’s administration has joined European governments in urging China to release a Swedish citizen who sold gossipy books about Chinese leaders. A U.S. State Department

Rear Window | What about Scott Chiang?

It looks like the Sulu Sou “affair” has come to a standstill! The Court of First Instance adjourned the trial (aggravated disobedience Sulu Sou/Scott Chiang) sine die pending a

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