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[ad_1] BEIJING: China will invest more in coal to boost its economy over the next five years, according to a government plan released on Friday (March 5) that only modestly raised renewable ambitions. Environmentalists hoped that China’s five-year national development plan, unveiled at its annual parliamentary session, would provide a …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The launch of an air transport bubble with Hong Kong can be launched “when conditions are right,” Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Friday (March 5). The long-awaited air travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore was originally scheduled to begin on November 22 last year, but …

[ad_1] WELLINGTON (AFP) – Tsunami sirens sounded in coastal communities across the South Pacific on Friday (March 5), when a group of powerful earthquakes triggered warnings for tens of thousands of residents to rush to higher ground. Tsunami warnings were issued in countries as distant as Peru and Australia, after …

[ad_1] YANGON: Hundreds of mourners gathered in Myanmar on Thursday (March 4) for the funeral of a 19-year-old protester shot to death at a demonstration against the military government. Angel, also known as Kyal Sin, was shot in the head and killed in the city of Mandalay on Wednesday while …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: While Singapore must do everything possible to address climate change, the country is ultimately dependent on a collective global effort to address the problem, Chief Minister Teo Chee Hean said on Thursday (March 4). Singapore contributes about 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, said Teo, who is …

[ad_1] NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Las Vegas Sands, founded by the late casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, will sell its Las Vegas properties for $ 6.25 billion (S $ 8.33 billion), emerging from the US gambling hot spot. After three decades to focus on Asia, home to Singapore. and the largest …

[ad_1] Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted that he is “concerned” about Manchester United’s goal drought. Misfiring United left another blank, their third straight goalless draw and now it’s been nearly five hours without a goal after a lousy draw at Selhurst Park. It leaves United 14 points behind leaders Manchester …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden pointed to a “growing rivalry with China” as a key challenge facing the United States, and his top diplomat described the Asian country as “the greatest geopolitical test” of this century. The administration put its thinking into a 24-page document outlining Biden’s national security policies …

[ad_1] BANGKOK: Since arriving in Thailand a few years ago, Myanmar migrant worker Own Mar Shwe had been sending money home every month for her family to buy food and medicine. That stopped abruptly last month. Commercial Commercial Like millions of Myanmar migrants working abroad and sending their income home …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Two unrelated community cases were among 23 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore on Wednesday (March 3). The remaining 21 cases were imported infections and were placed on admission notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. No new cases were reported in the dormitories …