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Yellow vests: France plans crackdown on unsanctioned protests

Yellow vests: France plans crackdown on unsanctioned protests

-- 2019-01-08 11:17:09

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced plans to punish people who hold unsanctioned protests after seven weeks of anti-government unrest. His government wants to draft new legislation t...

China arrests 18 at TCM firm after cancer case sparks outcry

China arrests 18 at TCM firm after cancer case sparks outcry

-- 2019-01-07 15:10:47

Chinese authorities have arrested the founder and more than a dozen others at a local traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) firm after the death of a young girl with cancer was linked to the company and...

Taliban militants kill 21 police officials in west Afghanistan

Taliban militants kill 21 police officials in west Afghanistan

-- 2019-01-07 14:50:02

Taliban insurgents have stormed security posts in west Afghanistan, killing 21 police and pro-government militia members, officials said on Monday, the latest in a surge of attacks that has cast doubt...

Army seizes power ‘to restore democracy’ in Gabon

Army seizes power ‘to restore democracy’ in Gabon

-- 2019-01-07 13:56:48

The military says it has seized power in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader's family has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the west African country say they launched a coup "to restore democracy"....

Asian shares ride relief rally, Sino-US trade a hurdle

Asian shares ride relief rally, Sino-US trade a hurdle

-- 2019-01-07 11:55:39

Asian shares sped ahead on Monday as a dovish turn by the Federal Reserve and startlingly strong US jobs data soothed some of the market’s worst fears about the global outlook. Chinese stocks f...

Magnitude 5.4 quake batters southern Philippines

Magnitude 5.4 quake batters southern Philippines

-- 2019-01-07 11:47:41

An earthquake of 5.4 magnitude rattled Zamboanga del Norte province in the southern Philippines on Monday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The institute said the quake, w...

Rights group urges Thailand not to deport Saudi woman

Rights group urges Thailand not to deport Saudi woman

-- 2019-01-07 11:24:57

A human rights group urged Thai authorities on Monday to halt plans to deport an 18-year-old Saudi woman who says she is fleeing abuse from her family and fears they will kill her if she is returned h...

Sudan security forces arrest Khartoum University lecturers

Sudan security forces arrest Khartoum University lecturers

-- 2019-01-07 11:10:05

Sudanese security authorities arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University on Sunday, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious chal...

Tour bus overturns in Bangkok, killing six

Tour bus overturns in Bangkok, killing six

-- 2019-01-06 13:48:13

Six people were killed and 54 others injured when a tour bus overturned on a slippery road on Thai capital Bangkok's northern outskirts in the wee hours of Sunday, police said. The six dead included...

UK cops arrest four during yellow vest pro-Brexit march in London

UK cops arrest four during yellow vest pro-Brexit march in London

-- 2019-01-06 13:32:18

Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, were arrested Saturday during a yellow vest pro-Brexit march in central London. Around 100 people in yellow vests marched through Westminster towards Trafal...

Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text

Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text

-- 2019-01-06 11:27:42

A new regulation in Saudi Arabia is set to stop Saudi women from not knowing about their own divorce. Starting from Sunday, courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their...

Third senior Pentagon official quits

Third senior Pentagon official quits

-- 2019-01-06 10:52:51

US Department of Defence chief of staff Kevin Sweeney has resigned, a month after the Defence Secretary James Mattis announced his departure. Rear Admiral Sweeney said in a statement that "the time i...

School bus falls into gorge in India, killing six

School bus falls into gorge in India, killing six

-- 2019-01-05 15:16:09

At least six people including five school children were killed and seven others injured Saturday after a bus carrying them skidded off a mountainous road and fell into gorge in northern Indian state o...

Five teen girls die in Polish escape room fire

Five teen girls die in Polish escape room fire

-- 2019-01-05 14:18:48

Five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out while they were playing an escape game in northern Poland. A 25-year-old man was seriously injured in the blaze which started at around 17:00 local...

Germany′s 2018 unemployment hits record low

Germany′s 2018 unemployment hits record low

-- 2019-01-05 13:53:28

German unemployment rate in 2018 has fallen to a record low and the number of jobless people in December 2018 fell more than expected, the Federal Employment Agency (BA) has reported. The number of u...

US jobs data boosts global stocks

US jobs data boosts global stocks

-- 2019-01-05 11:43:47

World stock markets rallied on Friday while bond yields rose after sharply declining earlier in the week ahead of the US and China trade talks and US employment data pointed to economic strength. Equ...

US stocks jump after jobs report

US stocks jump after jobs report

-- 2019-01-05 11:29:24

US stocks rebounded on Friday to close at its highest level in two weeks after a strong jobs report and assurances from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Powell said that the central bank would...

Taiwan calls for international support to defend democracy

Taiwan calls for international support to defend democracy

-- 2019-01-05 10:47:04

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s co...

Malaysia’s Nov exports rise to 1.6pc

Malaysia’s Nov exports rise to 1.6pc

-- 2019-01-04 15:58:40

Malaysia's exports grew only 1.6 per cent year-on-year to 84.79 billion ringgit (about 20.78 billion US dollars) in November last year, as electrical and electronics (E&E) shipment experienced its...

Southeast Asian stocks mixed; Philippines jumps

Southeast Asian stocks mixed; Philippines jumps

-- 2019-01-04 12:59:43

Risk appetite across Southeast Asia was mixed on Friday, while Philippine shares surged as the country's inflation cooled in December, but bargain-hunters snapped up cheapened Singaporean stocks. Sen...

Asian shares flat after Wall St sell-off

Asian shares flat after Wall St sell-off

-- 2019-01-04 12:03:01

Asian shares steadied on Friday following a technology-led sell-off on Wall Street, while the Japanese shares tumbled and Shanghai’s benchmark surged. The Nikkei 225 index started its first tra...

US-China trade talks to start Monday

US-China trade talks to start Monday

-- 2019-01-04 11:33:20

US and China will hold vice ministerial level trade talks in Beijing on Jan. 7-8, as the two sides look to end a dispute that is inflicting increasing pain on both economies and roiling global financi...

Vietnam earns $8.8b from seafood export in 2018

Vietnam earns $8.8b from seafood export in 2018

-- 2019-01-03 15:38:55

Vietnam earned over 8.8 billion US dollars from exporting seafood in the previous year, mainly prawns and catfish, posting a year-on-year increase of 6.3 per cent, according to government data. The V...

Protests paralyse India’s Kerala after women enter temple

Protests paralyse India’s Kerala after women enter temple

-- 2019-01-03 14:50:35

Conservative Hindu groups forced India’s southern state of Kerala to a standstill on Thursday as they protested against the state government for allowing two women to defy an ancient ban and ent...

UK crime agency arrests two over English Channel migrant crossings

UK crime agency arrests two over English Channel migrant crossings

-- 2019-01-03 12:57:26

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said it has made two arrests on suspicion of arranging illegal movement of migrants across the English Channel into Britain. A 33-year-old Iranian national...

Qatar GDP growth accelerates to 2.2 pc in Q3

Qatar GDP growth accelerates to 2.2 pc in Q3

-- 2019-01-03 12:54:38

Qatar’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth accelerated to an annual 2.2 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) of 2018 from a revised 1.7 per cent in the second quarter, a govt data showed. The Mi...

SE Asian stocks climb; Philippines jumps

SE Asian stocks climb; Philippines jumps

-- 2019-01-03 12:08:15

Most Southeast Asian shares climbed on Thursday, with Philippine markets leading gains ahead of the release of inflation figures, while Singaporean stocks bucked the trend to fall sharply. Philippine...

US, Colombia vow to reduce coca production

US, Colombia vow to reduce coca production

-- 2019-01-03 11:33:11

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is "deeply concerned" about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia. At a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duqu...

Asian shares mixed; Shanghai gains

Asian shares mixed; Shanghai gains

-- 2019-01-03 10:56:46

Asian share markets were mixed on Thursday after tumbling more than 1.0 per cent on the first trading day of 2019. Apple downgraded its sales projections, citing slowing Chinese growth, hitting tech...

China executes ‘Jack the Ripper’ for killing 11

China executes ‘Jack the Ripper’ for killing 11

-- 2019-01-03 10:38:51

A Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed. Gao Chengyong, dubbed ‘Jack the Ripper’ by Chinese media, followed his victims h...