PUTRAJAYA: Tourism Malaysia announced on Thursday (Nov 9) that it has sealed a year-long partnership with Barcelona footballer Luis Suarez. This follows a contract signed between Tourism Malaysia and Mediapro, the Asian representative for the top-rated footballer. A statement released by Tourism … Read more here:: News Asia
SYDNEY: A koala has been found dead in Australia with both its ears cut off, the latest in a spate of animal mutilations that police on Friday (Nov 10) called “troublesome and disgusting”. An emergency services worker stumbled across the grisly find on a road at Warrnambool, some 225 kilometres …
Multi-use venues and past experiences are just some of the ways PyeongChang 2018 hopes to build on its potential legacy. Read more here:: News Asia
A strategic framework for a free and open Indo Pacific involving the US, Australia, Japan and India has been around for a while, says Yale-NUS College’s Rohan Murkajee. Read more here:: News Asia
President Donald Trump is likely to wield his “America First” doctrine when he address CEOs ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum at the Vietnamese resort of Danang. Read more here:: News Asia
GENEVA: A UN rights watchdog urged Australia on Thursday (Nov 9) to stop sending refugees to offshore detention centres, expressing serious concern about conditions and abuses at the facilities. The UN Human Rights Committee also called on Australia to “take all measures necessary” to protect the … Read more here:: …
Asia-Pacific ministers struggled Thursday to agree on a joint statement on free trade, a rare tussle over a normally routine document that highlights how Donald Trump’s protectionist “America First” stance is knotting up global trade relations. Read more here:: News Asia
At the Mong Kok stadium, a small segment of the crowd numbering several hundred, waved banners and banged on drums, before jeering China’s national anthem before the match kicked off. Read more here:: News Asia
When Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni returned to his home region to throw an Independence Day party last month, the uniformed security outnumbered the small crowd of bored spectators. Museveni slowly drove past the crowd, a mix of schoolchildren and farmers, in a top-of-the-range pick-up truck … Read more here:: News …
Chinese actress Zhao Wei and her husband Huang Youlong have been fined and barred from China’s securities markets for five years for using “false information to mislead the market”, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on Wednesday (Nov 8). Zhao’s company, Longwei Culture … Read more here:: News Asia