World
Indonesia's resumption of palm oil exports will not blunt Malaysia's competitiveness in exporting the edible oil, the Malaysian commodities minister said on Sunday (May 22), pointing to the rival's loss of sales in India.Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin urged "all Malaysian oil palm grow...
US President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea’s Mr Kim Jong Un."Hello... period," he told reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea on Sunday (May 22). Mr Biden said he was ...
Britain's opposition Labour Party has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to explain why he met a senior civil servant to discuss publication of her final report into parties held at Mr Johnson's Downing Street office during Covid-19 lockdowns."Boris Johnson must urgently explain why...
Long lines of trucks trying to unload palm fruit formed outside Indonesian processing mills this week, illustrating the growing cost of a palm oil export ban by the world's biggest producer.The trucks were stuck for days as storage space for palm oil neared capacity and, with local crop prices s...
National,Front Page
Sri Lanka's prime minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to boost productivity.A decision in April last year by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ban all chem...
Canada's public health agency on Thursday (May 19) confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox virus infections in the country after authorities in Quebec province said they were investigating 17 suspected cases.Several countries including Portugal and Spain have reported cases of monkeypox in re...
Japan plans to double its daily number of foreigners entering the country up to 20,000 from next month, the top government spokesman said on Friday (May 20).Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a regular news conference that travellers from most countries, about 80 per cent of the total for...
Entertainment & Glomour
Tom Cruise was the star of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday as he not just made a grand entry with fighter jets zooming over the venue but also won a long-standing ovation from the audience at the screening of his film, Top Gun: Maverick. Tom was moved to tears as he saw the response for his ac...
Republican candidates endorsed by Mr Donald Trump won their party's nominations for governor in Pennsylvania and for the US Senate in North Carolina on Tuesday (May 17), underscoring the former president's clout in his party ahead of November's midterm elections.But Mr Madison Cawthorn, ...
Sri Lanka was set to form a new Cabinet on Monday (May 16) as bitter political rivals make common cause to tackle a worsening economic crisis after last week's deadly violence, party leaders said.Protesters remained camped outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence demanding that he re...
Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a Covid-19 outbreak that - in the presumed absence of vaccines - the country is using antibiotics and home remedies to treat.The isolated state is one of only two countries yet to...
Business & Commerce
Afghanistan faces a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis ($501 million) this financial year, the country's Taliban authorities said on Saturday without clarifying how the gap between expected revenues and planned spending will be met.Announcing the first annual national budget since the Taliban...
Sports,Cricket
Former Australia all-rounder and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds has died following a car accident in Queensland, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Sunday.Symonds was aged 46. He had played 238 matches, including 26 tests, for Australia between 1998-2009.Police said the accident occurred in He...
Malaysia Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah met his counterpart from Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG), a shadow administration outlawed by the ruling military junta, in the group's first open engagement with a Southeast Asian country.The meeting, disclosed by Datuk Seri Saifuddin i...
Ireland's foreign minister Simon Coveney urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday (May 15) not to introduce new post-Brexit trade laws in the coming days that he said could undermine the peace process in Northern Ireland.Top officials from Johnson's government have warned they mi...
Sports,Football
Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo expressed confidence that incoming manager Erik ten Hag will be a good fit at Old Trafford but warned that the Dutchman must be afforded time if United are to return to winning ways.Speculation has been rife about Ronaldo's future at United following a...
Sri Lanka lifted a nationwide curfew for 12 hours on Saturday (May 14), further easing tight curbs as new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sought to form a government after clashes with anti-government groups killed nine people.More than a month of predominantly peaceful protests against th...
Borussia Dortmund top striker Erling Haaland is close to sealing a transfer deal with Manchester City and a move to the lucrative Premier League, several German media reported on Monday.Haaland is among the hottest transfer prospects this summer with the Norwegian 21-year-old having scored 61 goals ...
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp told his side to stop behaving as if they had attended a funeral after a 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday dealt a serious blow to their title challenge and handed the advantage to Manchester City.Luis Diaz rescued a point for Liverpool as they went top o...
Japan will take time to phase out Russian oil imports after agreeing on a ban with other Group of Seven (G7) nations to counter Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday (May 9).The G-7 nations committed to the move "in a timely and orderly fashion" at a...
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