KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia will continue to be on the global investors’ radar due to its solid economic position and its importance in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), said IQI Global chief economist Shan Saeed.
There have been lots of financial fragilities in Europe and many advanced economies in recent times, he said.
MANILA, Nov 12 (NNN-PNA) – Philippines is on its way to become the world’s biggest importer of rice this year following the government’s decision to allow the unimpeded importation of the staple as a way to bring down prices, international data showed.
A report by the United States’ Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Services (USDA-FAS) projected the country’s rice imports to reach a record three million metric tons (MT) by year-end—the highest in the world and the highest for the country.
BEIJING, November 12. /TASS/: The eastern route of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline is a strategic project for cooperation between China and Russia in the field of energy, official representative of the Foreign Ministry of China Geng Shuang said on Tuesday, commenting on the announcement that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will take part in the opening ceremony.
NUR-SULTAN, November 12. /TASS/: Persons involved in corruption schemes during the Vostochny spaceport construction in the Russian Far East have been removed from the project, Head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday.
The Roscosmos chief thus responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s harsh criticism of the Vostochny spaceport’s construction. The Russian leader said at a government meeting on Monday that criminal cases and jailings had failed to stem theft at the Vostochny spaceport’s construction site.
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday as investors awaited cues on trade talks between China and the U.S.
The next hints on progress in the negotiations between Beijing and Washington could come later in the day, when Trump is scheduled to give a speech on trade and economic policy at the Economic Club of New York.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.1% to 23,362.24, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.1% to 26,947.66. South Korea’s Kospi edged 0.2% higher to 2,127.35.
HONG KONG (AP) — Police fired tear gas at protesters who littered streets with bricks and disrupted morning trains Tuesday for the second day in a row as Hong Kong’s five months of anti-government demonstrations turned increasingly violent.
Protesters and police faced off in and around several university campuses as classes were cancelled. Subways were partially shut down, and passengers on one commuter train disembarked short of the station and were escorted along the tracks in video shown on Hong Kong television.
SAMARKAND /Uzbekistan/, November 11. /TASS/: The threat of radical Islam, which is soaring due to the situation in Afghanistan, may bring about a certain rapprochement in relations among Central Asian countries, but it will not result in the emergence of a coalition, the research director of the discussion club Valdai, Fyodor Lukyanov, told TASS on the sidelines of the club’s 10th Asian conference.
SAMARKAND /Uzbekistan/, November 11. /TASS/: A new security system of global nature will be created in Asia as the region becomes stronger, German-Russian Forum Research Director Alexander Rahr said on the sidelines of the Tenth Asian Conference hosted by the Valdai International Discussion Club in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand.
11 November 2019; AFP: Cambodian dog meat traders drown, strangle and stab thousands of canines a day in a shadowy but sprawling business that traumatises workers and exposes them to deadly health risks like rabies.
Khieu Chan bursts into tears when describing a job that haunts him as he goes to sleep: he kills up to six dogs a day, slicing their throats.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam said on Monday the violence that is roiling the former British colony has exceeded protesters’ demands for democracy and demonstrators are now the people’s enemy.
Lam was speaking hours after police shot a protester, a man was set alight and volleys of tear gas were fired at lunch time in the heart of the financial centre in some of the most dramatic scenes to grip the city during months of unrest.
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