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S Korea's export volume growth rises

S Korea's export volume growth rises

-- 2018-02-26 20:43:11

The export volume growth of South Korea hits four months high in January on the strong demand for semiconductors, central bank data showed Monday. According to the Bank of Korea (BOK), the East As...

S'pore manufacturing output up 17.9pc in Jan

S'pore manufacturing output up 17.9pc in Jan

-- 2018-02-26 20:24:48

The manufacturing output of Singapore grew 17.9 per cent year on year in January, compared to a 3.9 percent decline last December, the Economic Development Board said on Monday. The output grew 21....

Global stocks notch further gains

Global stocks notch further gains

-- 2018-02-26 18:36:39

Global stocks markets notched further gains on Monday, while the dollar stayed on the back foot, as investors bet the new head of the US Federal Reserve. MSCI’s index of world stocks was up...

European shares rise ahead of Italy polls

European shares rise ahead of Italy polls

-- 2018-02-26 18:26:02

European shares traded higher at the opening session on Monday as focus gradually shifts from the earnings season to monetary policy and politics with Italy’s election on Sunday. At 0945 GMT, t...

Turkey requests Kurd leader’s deportation from Czech Republic

Turkey requests Kurd leader’s deportation from Czech Republic

-- 2018-02-26 15:21:47

Turkey has officially requested the extradition of former Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Saleh Muslim from the Czech Republic, Ankara’s government spokesman said on Monday....

Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ set for November release

Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ set for November release

-- 2018-02-26 14:10:07

Michelle Obama's forthcoming memoir, ‘Becoming,’ is set for worldwide release on November 13, at which time the former first lady will embark on a global tour to promote the book. Publish...

Four die as explosion wrecks UK shop, home

Four die as explosion wrecks UK shop, home

-- 2018-02-26 13:34:29

A blast destroyed a convenience store and a home in the central English city of Leicester on Sunday, killing at least four people and leaving four more wounded, British police said. “There are...

Labour puts May under pressure over customs union

Labour puts May under pressure over customs union

-- 2018-02-26 12:38:09

Britain's main opposition Labour party is poised for a significant policy change that could increase pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to deliver a ‘soft’ Brexit that maintains some f...

Nigeria speeds up search for 110 abducted schoolgirls

Nigeria speeds up search for 110 abducted schoolgirls

-- 2018-02-26 11:21:59

Nigeria has deployed extra troops and planes to search for 110 schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram militants last week. The girls went missing after jihadists stormed their schoo...

Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death for IS ties

Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death for IS ties

-- 2018-02-26 10:51:00

An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have...

China sees home prices rise in January

China sees home prices rise in January

-- 2018-02-26 10:38:03

China’s new home prices grew in January although major cities saw early signs of softening, as the government continued its efforts to rein in speculative demand to fend off bubble risk. The ac...

Strong quake rattles Papua New Guinea

Strong quake rattles Papua New Guinea

-- 2018-02-26 10:08:23

A strong earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale shook Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands province early on Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The powerful quake prompted oi...

Asian shares turn cautious

Asian shares turn cautious

-- 2018-02-26 09:57:09

Asian share markets were in a cautious mood on Monday as investors braced for an event-packed week headlined by US inflation data and the first House testimony by the new head of the Federal Reserve....

North Korea denounces latest US sanctions

North Korea denounces latest US sanctions

Reuters 2018-02-25 15:32:11

North Korea has strongly denounced the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States, saying a blockade would be considered as an act of war. State media on Sunday said in a statement that t...

China to scrap limit of presidential term

China to scrap limit of presidential term

-- 2018-02-25 15:04:31

China’s Central Committee proposed on Sunday to remove a limit of two consecutive terms for the president and vice president, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The committee proposed re...

Mexico’s president calls off US visit after heated Trump call

Mexico’s president calls off US visit after heated Trump call

-- 2018-02-25 14:22:34

US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto postponed plans for the Mexican leader’s first visit to the White House, after a testy phone call involving Trump’s push...

Stocks of Facebook rally as week ends

Stocks of Facebook rally as week ends

-- 2018-02-25 13:48:54

Social media giant Facebook (FB) and the rest of the Nasdaq Composite rallied heartily on Friday, as the index was carried just below its record high set last month. It was a strong end to a week th...

Cambodia senate polls: PM’s party eyes easy win

Cambodia senate polls: PM’s party eyes easy win

-- 2018-02-25 13:34:25

Voting got under way in Cambodia on Sunday in a Senate election that the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen was expected to sweep following a crackdown on opposition. The vote, to elect 58 member...

Tears can be helpful in diagnosing Parkinson's disease

Tears can be helpful in diagnosing Parkinson's disease

-- 2018-02-25 12:44:47

American scientists found that tears may hold clues to whether someone has Parkinson's disease, according to a preliminary study that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 70th Annu...

Italy polls: Police, rival protesters clash in campaign rallies

Italy polls: Police, rival protesters clash in campaign rallies

-- 2018-02-25 12:14:27

Rival demonstrations by far-right and anti-fascist groups a week before Italy's general election have led to scuffles with police. Police in Milan used batons as left-wing demonstrators tried to brea...

Mexico arrests four cops over missing Italian men

Mexico arrests four cops over missing Italian men

-- 2018-02-25 11:42:47

Mexican authorities have arrested four police officers on suspicion of abducting three missing Italian men for a local criminal gang. State prosecutors confirmed the news on Saturday. A Reuters repo...

Colombia deports top drug ‘smuggler’ to US

Colombia deports top drug ‘smuggler’ to US

-- 2018-02-25 11:23:00

A man accused of smuggling more than 250 tonnes of cocaine over the past decade has been extradited to the US from Colombia. Prosecutors say Washington Prado Álava, an Ecuadorean national, was...

Yemen counter-terrorism base attack kills 14

Yemen counter-terrorism base attack kills 14

-- 2018-02-25 10:38:09

At least 14 people were killed and 40 others injured as Islamist car suicide bombers and gunmen tried to storm the headquarters of a counter-terrorism unit in the southern port city of Aden on Saturda...

Switzerland city centre shooting leaves two dead

Switzerland city centre shooting leaves two dead

-- 2018-02-24 14:56:44

Two people died in a shooting in Zurich's city centre on Friday that police said did not appear to have any link to terrorism. Police responding to reports of shots fired near the Swiss financial cap...

US all set to open Jerusalem embassy in May

US all set to open Jerusalem embassy in May

-- 2018-02-24 14:38:45

The United States has said it will open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May, a move from Tel Aviv that reverses decades of US policy and is bound to trouble US allies who have already objected....

Sam Rockwell to voice Jolie's 'One and Only Ivan'

Sam Rockwell to voice Jolie's 'One and Only Ivan'

-- 2018-02-24 14:08:26

Actor Sam Rockwell has signed on to voice a silverback gorilla, Ivan, in Disney's drama 'The One and Only Ivan'. Thea Sharrock is directing the live-action/CG hybrid project from a script by Mike Whi...

Suicide car bombings kill five in southern Afghanistan

Suicide car bombings kill five in southern Afghanistan

-- 2018-02-24 13:24:44

Two separate suicide car bombings in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, have killed at least five people including two assailants on Saturday morning, said provincial officials. A police off...

France finds stolen painting after eight years

France finds stolen painting after eight years

-- 2018-02-24 13:17:23

French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus, more than eight years after it was reportedly stolen. The French Culture Ministry said Friday that customs...

Talks on Julian Assange’s release fail

Talks on Julian Assange’s release fail

-- 2018-02-24 12:17:02

Ecuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy have failed. Foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said the UK was...

Japan approves fast flu virus killing drug

Japan approves fast flu virus killing drug

-- 2018-02-24 11:46:47

The Japanese Ministry of Health approved a new drug on Friday that allegedly kills the flu virus in just 24 hours, which would be a major breakthrough in combating influenza. The tablet, which is cal...