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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is far from ordinary, and late-night television humorists are pushing boundaries in order to keep up. The most memorable Trump-inspired comedy of the past few months has
Denmark’s TV2 broadcaster says it has opened an office in Damascus, claiming to be the only western media to do so. Mikkel Hertz, news director of the channel based in Odense,
A Chinese company said yesterday it will resume construction of a USD1.5 billion port city project in Sri Lanka, about a year after it was suspended because of questions about its
China’s state news agency has had to issue a correction after it referred to President Xi Jinping as “China’s last leader”, an apparent copyediting error, BBC reported yesterday. Xinhua later amended
Polls suggest that if Spain were to hold new elections no party would obtain a majority and negotiations for a coalition government would continue as now except anti-austerity Podemos party
Swiss authorities have arrested 15 people sought by neighboring Italy as suspected members of the ‘ndrangheta organized crime syndicate. The Federal Office of Justice said the Italian citizens were arrested yesterday
An Associated Press investigation has found that an American company that bills itself as a pioneer in identifying emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola
The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power
Amazon.com is introducing two devices designed to amplify the role its voice-controlled assistant Alexa plays in people’s homes and lives. The products unveiled yesterday are echoes of Amazon’s Echo, a cylinder-shaped
Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to sell SABMiller’s stake in China’s Snow Breweries for USD1.6 billion to ease regulatory concerns about the merger of the world’s two biggest beermakers. AB InBev says
A Tiger Airways jet made an emergency landing in the Australian city of Melbourne after an odor was detected and crew members were reported ill, the government said. The Airbus A320
Investor Warren Buffett says he can’t predict how having interest rates negative for a prolonged period will affect the economy because it has never happened before. The billionaire from Omaha said
Local writer Pierre Wong attended the 2016 Taipei International Book Exhibition, saying during his lecture that Macau could produce influential literature. During his lecture, titled “Supporting Role and Being at the
Australia’s prime minister says his country will bolster its naval strength with more submarines and warships as part of a long-term military buildup needed to maintain peace in the Asia-Pacific
Smartphone ride-hailing service Uber is placing a bet on motorcycles in the Thai capital, adding motorbike rides to its arsenal of on- demand services. Uber announced yesterday the launching of its
An attorney for a French woman who sued the University of Oklahoma over a painting that the Nazis stole from her family says a settlement has been reached and that
A Syrian opposition activist group says heavy fighting has cut off the government’s only supply route to the northeastern city of Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says clashes
The 23-year-old Haryanto will become the first Indonesian to compete in F1 and joins Germany’s Pascal Wehrlein in an all-rookie lineup for the season that begins March 20 in Melbourne,
A Brazilian governor has fired his official human rights secretary because the man expressed a belief in curing homosexuality. Ezequiel Teixeira told the O Globo newspaper that he believed in a
Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose in December to a record high despite cutbacks by China and Japan. Foreign ownership of Treasury securities increased 0.7 percent in December to a
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