PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Another week, another North Korean weapons test.
North Korea’s relentless, carefully calibrated barrage of firepower — Tuesday’s test was its eighth since late July — has managed to normalize a martial display of defiance that not too long ago raised fears of war in one of the most dangerous corners of the world.
Beijing, Sep 10 (AP) Jack Ma, who founded Alibaba Group, the world's biggest e-commerce company, is stepping down as chairman at a time when the rapidly changing industry faces uncertainty amid a US-Chinese trade war.
Ma stepped down Tuesday as part of a succession announced a year earlier. He will stay on as a member of the Alibaba Partnership, a group of 36 people with the right to nominate a majority of the company's board of directors.
Ma, 55, founded Alibaba in 1999 to connect Chinese exporters to American retailers.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Sept 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Uzbekistan plans to bring the volume of textile exports to two billion U.S. dollars this year, a Uzbek official said.
“Uzbekistan has turned from an exporter of raw materials into a real supplier of high value-added textile products,” Ilhom Haydarov, chairman of Uzbek Textile Industry Association, told reporters.
The industry is now completely focused on export, he said, adding that, last year Uzbekistan exported textile products worth 1.6 billion U.S. dollars.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Hundreds of schools were closed in Malaysia’s Sarawak state, after air quality dropped, due to the ongoing haze, the state Education Department said today (Tuesday).
The closures include 347 primary and 62 secondary schools in nine districts, which serve over 150,000 students, the department said, in a statement.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its dealings with Washington may end without new U.S. proposals.
The North’s projectile launches and demand for new proposals were apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when the North Korea-U.S. talks restart.
9 September 2019; AFP: The CEO of crisis-hit Japanese automaker Nissan plans to resign, reports said Monday, as the firm's board meets to discuss an audit launched after former chief Carlos Ghosn's arrest over financial misconduct.
Hiroto Saikawa's reported decision to step down comes days after he admitted receiving overpayments, and is the latest blow to the firm after Ghosn's arrest and ouster.
HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of students formed human chains outside schools across Hong Kong on Monday to show solidarity to push for democratic reforms after violent weekend clashes in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
The silent protest comes as the Hong Kong government condemned the “illegal behavior of radical protesters” and warned the U.S. to stay out of its affairs.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today said the government is committed to rehabilitating the country and liberating it from corruption and abuse of power.
He said this was being done by strengthening the country’s administration based on the Rule of Law principle and separation of powers as enshrined in the Federal Constitution.
“I hope the country will be fully liberated from all forms of corruption so that a New Malaysia can be further developed, more than ever before.”
HONG KONG, Sept 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Hong Kong’s government on Monday warned foreign governments not to interfere in the city’s “internal affairs,” following weekend protests that called for US support in the three-month-old crisis.
In a statement, the government also condemned “the illegal behaviour of the radical protesters” after violent clashes overnight between some protesters and police.
TALUSTUSAN, Philippines (AP) — The American priest’s voice echoed over the phone line, his sharp Midwestern accent softened over the decades by a gentle Filipino lilt. On the other end, recording the call, was a young man battered by shame but anxious to get the priest to describe exactly what had happened in this little island village.
“I should have known better than trying to just have a life,” the priest said in the November 2018 call. “Happy days are gone. It’s all over.”
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