Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a female journalist and activist from her house in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said on Tuesday. The incident occurred late on Monday night when masked armed men broke into the house of the journalist Afrah Shawqi in Saidiya district in southern Baghdad and abducted her, the source […]
The high court of Hanoi on Tuesday sentenced 18 former officials of the state-owned Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) to four to 30 years in prison due to abuse of power. After over 10 days’ appellate trial, the high court maintained the sentence of 22-year imprisonment for Pham Thanh Tan, former Agribank […]
Former Bangkok governor Bhichit Rattakul was on Tuesday sentenced by the Appeals Court to five years in prison on bribe-taking charges. The Appeals Court found Bhichit guilty of conspiring with two former officials of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to take an estimated 1 million U.S. dollars in kickback money in 1997’s land purchasing deal. Apart […]
A political clock is rapidly changing in South Korea on the first division in almost three decades of the conservative bloc and the scheduled return of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is seen as one of powerful presidential contenders. The change was triggered by the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, who is waiting for […]
In an interview released Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama said he could have won the November presidential election if it was he who faced Donald Trump. “I am confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American People to rally behind it,” Obama said. […]
At least 15 passengers were injured during evacuation after a passenger plane with more than 150 people on board skidded off the runaway during take-off at the international airport in the western Indian state of Goa Tuesday. The incident took place at around 5 a.m. local time (2330 GMT Monday) when a Mumbai-bound flight of […]
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has retrieved over 90 percent of fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in South Korea, leading the company to consider software upgrades to further limit the battery-charging capability. Over 850,000 Note 7 devices have been retrieved among about 950,000 phones sold here, raising the recovery rate to 90 […]
Brazil’s federal government registered in November a primary deficit of 38.3 billion reals (11.7 billion U.S. dollars), the highest registered in the month of November in 20 years, the country’s Treasury Secretariat said on Monday. It was also a significant change from October, when the federal government registered a primary surplus of 40.8 billion reals […]
Indian police has arrested four men on charges of gang-raping a U.S. tourist in New Delhi in March this year. “On Monday, we arrested the four suspects — a tour guide, a driver, a tourist bus helper and a hotel employee — in connection with the incident after the American woman flew down to the […]
China has resumed imports of Japanese koi, removing a ban imposed amid viral disease outbreaks at Japanese fishing farms in 2003, authorities in Shanghai said Tuesday. The first shipment of 20 Japanese koi arrived in Shanghai Friday and is undergoing quarantine inspection at the airport, the Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said in a […]
China is considering a flexible loan policy for car purchases to encourage automobile consumption, a major driving force for economic growth. The loan-to-value ratio of automobile purchases will be flexible and set according to macroeconomic and automobile industrial conditions, according to a draft decision released by the central bank and the top banking regulator on […]
Supply-side structural reform has been a catchphrase in China this year, and is set to remain a central theme of the nation’s economic work in 2017 as it is expected to inject vitality into the world’s second largest economy. The reform has witnessed steady progress since China’s policymakers proposed it at the end of 2015 […]
Profits of China’s major industrial firms increased 14.5 percent year on year in November, up from 9.8 percent registered in October, official data showed Tuesday. Profits of industrial companies with annual revenues of more than 20 million yuan (about 2.87 million U.S. dollars) totaled 774.57 billion yuan last month, the National Bureau of Statistics said. […]
Car maker Dongfeng-Nissan’s sales have risen in 2016, the company said Monday. The company’s auto sales this year stood at 1.1 million, up 13 percent year on year, the second year that auto sales have topped one million, according to Zhou Xianpeng, deputy general manager of Dongfeng-Nissan. “The auto industry has entered a ‘smart period’, […]
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