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Hong Kong developer to launch research to tackle chronic housing shortage

Hong Kong developer to launch research to tackle chronic housing shortage

-- 2021-09-30 14:46:47

Hong Kong property developer New World Development said on Thursday it would launch a research project to tackle a chronic housing shortage and sky-high home prices in one of the world's most exp...

China's Belt and Road plans losing momentum as opposition, debt mount: US AidData study

China's Belt and Road plans losing momentum as opposition, debt mount: US AidData study

-- 2021-09-29 19:07:21

China's vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount, paving the way for rival schemes to squeeze Beijing out, a new st...

Hospitalisations during Tokyo 2020 Games higher than initially reported

Hospitalisations during Tokyo 2020 Games higher than initially reported

-- 2021-09-29 13:55:23

A total of 25 people were hospitalised due to Covid-19 during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, instead of the initially reported five, organisers said on Tuesday evening. "The initial five we reported w...

Kishida wins party vote, set to become Japan’s next prime minister

Kishida wins party vote, set to become Japan’s next prime minister

-- 2021-09-29 13:31:57

Former foreign minister Fumio Kishida won a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership race on Wednesday, a victory that virtually ensures he will succeed Yoshihide Suga as prime minister within...

N Korea tests new hypersonic missile

N Korea tests new hypersonic missile

-- 2021-09-29 11:31:18

The projectile North Korea fired off its east coast on Tuesday was a newly developed hypersonic missile, state news media KCNA reported on Wednesday, the latest in a series of new weapons tested by th...

India allows Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial on minors

India allows Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial on minors

-- 2021-09-28 16:54:03

India's drug regulator on Tuesday allowed vaccine maker Serum Institute to enrol kids aged 7-11 years for its trial of US drugmaker Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine, as the country prepares to protect child...

Pleas for more coal in China as energy crunch triggers alarm

Pleas for more coal in China as energy crunch triggers alarm

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-28 15:12:14

As a severe power crunch roils China's northeastern industrial heartland, senior officials face mounting pressure from alarmed citizens to ramp up coal imports thick and fast in order to keep lights o...

Indian farmers plan nationwide protests against reforms Monday

Indian farmers plan nationwide protests against reforms Monday

-- 2021-09-27 11:07:28

Indian farmers opposed to reforms they say threaten their livelihoods aim to renew their push against the changes with nationwide protests on Monday, a year after laws on the liberalisation of the sec...

IAEA says Iran fails to fully honour agreement on monitoring equipment

IAEA says Iran fails to fully honour agreement on monitoring equipment

-- 2021-09-27 10:25:43

The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, before the beginning of a board of governors meeting, in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021 -- Reuters The U...

Taliban urges airlines to resume international flights to Afghanistan

Taliban urges airlines to resume international flights to Afghanistan

-- 2021-09-26 17:36:52

The Taliban government in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved....

Israeli forces kill four Palestinian militants in West Bank

Israeli forces kill four Palestinian militants in West Bank

-- 2021-09-26 15:13:59

Israeli forces killed at least four Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, Reuters reports. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in a...

North Korea willing to consider another summit with South

North Korea willing to consider another summit with South

-- 2021-09-26 14:11:20

North Korea is willing to consider another summit with South Korea if mutual respect between the neighbours can be assured, state news agency KCNA said on Saturday, citing Kim Yo Jong, the sister of t...

China welcomes Huawei executive home, Trudeau hugs Canadians released by Beijing

China welcomes Huawei executive home, Trudeau hugs Canadians released by Beijing

-- 2021-09-26 10:52:42

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrived in China on Saturday, ending her near three-year US extradition fight, the same day two Canadians detained by Beijing for more than 1,000 days retur...

India's Odisha, Andhra Pradesh brace for cyclonic storm

India's Odisha, Andhra Pradesh brace for cyclonic storm

-- 2021-09-25 22:50:11

A deep depression over India's Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm that is expected to make landfall on Sunday, the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Satur...

Taliban hang up bodies of alleged kidnappers in Afghan city

Taliban hang up bodies of alleged kidnappers in Afghan city

-- 2021-09-25 21:21:46

Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official said on Saturday. Sher Ahmad Amm...

Japan's princess to give up one-off payment in controversial marriage

Japan's princess to give up one-off payment in controversial marriage

-- 2021-09-25 19:44:28

Japan's Princess Mako is set to forego a one-off million-dollar payment for giving up her royal status to wed a college classmate, media said on Saturday, clearing the way for a marriage delayed for y...

Quad nations to focus on clean-energy supply chain, says Australia PM

Quad nations to focus on clean-energy supply chain, says Australia PM

-- 2021-09-25 19:35:01

The United States, Japan, India and Australia will work to improve the security of supply chains for critical technologies such as clean energy and to ease a global semiconductor shortage, said Austra...

Chinese police take away HNA chairman, CEO on suspicion of crimes

Chinese police take away HNA chairman, CEO on suspicion of crimes

-- 2021-09-25 18:33:58

China's HNA Group, once one of the country's most acquisitive conglomerates, said on Friday that its chairman and its chief executive had been taken away by police due to suspected criminal offences....

Myanmar will not address UN General Assembly

Myanmar will not address UN General Assembly

-- 2021-09-25 17:23:21

No representative from Myanmar is scheduled to address the annual high-level UN General Assembly, a UN spokesman said on Friday, amid rival claims for the country's UN seat in New York after a militar...

Noted feminist activist Kamla Bhasin passes away

Noted feminist activist Kamla Bhasin passes away

-- 2021-09-25 16:47:01

Kamla Bhasin, a leading feminist activist of South Asia, died in the early hours of Saturday after battling cancer at the age of 75. News of her demise was shared on Twitter by activist Kavita Srivas...

China urges cartoon producers to create 'healthy' content

China urges cartoon producers to create 'healthy' content

-- 2021-09-25 11:14:06

China's broadcasting regulator said it will encourage online producers to create "healthy" cartoons and clamp down violent, vulgar or pornographic content, as Beijing steps up efforts to bring its thr...

China releases Canadians after Huawei CFO resolves US charges

China releases Canadians after Huawei CFO resolves US charges

-- 2021-09-25 11:04:16

Two Canadians detained in China on spying charges were released from prison and flown out of the country on Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, just after a top executive of Chinese communicat...

Quad leaders present united front, sharing concerns about China

Quad leaders present united front, sharing concerns about China

-- 2021-09-25 10:08:06

Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia vowed on Friday to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region "undaunted by coercion" at their first in-person summit, which presented a united...

Nepal resumes on-arrival visa service for vaccinated tourists

Nepal resumes on-arrival visa service for vaccinated tourists

-- 2021-09-24 21:31:10

Nepal on Thursday announced to resume on-arrival visa service for foreign tourists, who have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, with an aim of reviving its tourism sector. In a travel advisory t...

Singapore tightens COVID-19 curbs after seeing record infections

Singapore tightens COVID-19 curbs after seeing record infections

-- 2021-09-24 20:01:13

Singapore said on Friday it will tighten COVID-19 curbs to limit social gatherings to two people and make working from home a default, in a bid to contain a spike in infections and reduce pressure on...

‘China has no right to speak about Taiwan's bid to join Pacific trade pact’

‘China has no right to speak about Taiwan's bid to join Pacific trade pact’

-- 2021-09-24 18:07:56

China is an ‘arch-criminal’ intent on bullying Taiwan and has no right to oppose or comment on its bid to join a pan-Pacific trade pact, Taiwan's government said in an escalating war of wo...

Three gangsters killed inside court in India

Three gangsters killed inside court in India

-- 2021-09-24 17:45:56

Three gangsters were killed in a shootout inside a courtroom at Rohini city in North West Delhi that also left several people injured on Friday. The shootout in the Indian capital raised serious ques...

Saudis enjoy Red Sea cruises

Saudis enjoy Red Sea cruises

-- 2021-09-24 09:30:57

Majed Sait and his wife are spending their honeymoon on a cruise in the turquoise waters off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, a voyage that is still a novelty in the conservative kingdom which only recen...

'Death sentence': Low-lying nations urge faster action on climate

'Death sentence': Low-lying nations urge faster action on climate

-- 2021-09-24 08:34:55

Faced with what they see as an existential threat, leaders from low-lying and island nations implored rich countries at the United Nations General Assembly this week to act more forcefully against a w...

China opposes Taiwan region joining official agreement or organisation

China opposes Taiwan region joining official agreement or organisation

-- 2021-09-23 22:11:28

China firmly opposes official interactions between any country and the Taiwan region, and firmly rejects Taiwan's accession to any agreement or organisation of official nature, a foreign ministry spok...