A man eats a take-out meal in a chair placed outside a restaurant in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Sham Shui Po district in the early morning of July 29, 2020, as new social distancing measures come into effect that They include restaurants that are only allowed to serve takeaways, to combat …
Read More »Najib Razak, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, found guilty in 1MDB trial
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (C) is escorted by police to a court in Kuala Lumpur on October 25, 2018. Mohd Rasfan | AFP | fake pictures Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been convicted of all seven charges in a case involving the multi-million dollar financial scandal …
Read More »Pompeo’s speech will have the ‘opposite effect’ in China, says former US diplomat
The speech by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticizing China was an “angry regret” and an “extended ideological speech” that would do little to change Beijing’s behavior, said a former US diplomat in Asia. Specifically, Pompeo’s apparent attempt to unite the Chinese people against the Communist Party of …
Read More »Coronavirus sends Australia to its biggest budget deficit in decades
Australia announced Thursday that its budget deficit is expected to widen significantly as it fights a coronavirus outbreak that ended the economy’s nearly three-decade streak of growth, one of the longest in any country in the world. The country’s budget deficit is forecast to widen significantly to A $ 85.8 …
Read More »Governor warns that Tokyo needs to beat coronavirus to keep the Olympics on track
As the one-year countdown begins for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, athletes are not the only participants preparing for the biggest battle of their career. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike agrees to do everything possible to keep the games alive. Tokyo 2020 “can become a symbol of how the world …
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