HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is still China’s wealthiest, most capitalist city. Its vistas of skyscraper and sea framed by dragon-backed emerald peaks are as stunning as ever. But a year after Beijing imposed a harsh national security law on the former British colony, the civil liberties that raised hopes for more democracy among many of its 7 million people are fading.
BEIJING (AP) — Growth in China’s manufacturing activity softened in June as export demand weakened and producers struggled with supply bottlenecks, a survey showed Wednesday.
The monthly purchasing managers’ index issued by the national statistics agency and an industry group declined to 50.9 from May’s 51.0 on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50 show activity increasing.
Measures of new export orders, production and factory gate prices declined.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis,” using strong language that raised the specter of a mass outbreak in a country that would be scarcely able to handle it.
The state media report Wednesday did not specify what “crucial” lapse had prompted Kim to call the Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, but experts said the North could be wrestling with a significant setback in its pandemic fight.
29 June 2021; MEMO: A Malaysian organisation calling itself DragonForce has said that it hacked into the database of an Israeli recruitment company, giving access to the details of hundreds of thousands of university students, local media outlets have reported.
BANGKOK, June 29 (Reuters) - Thailand lost 550,000 tourism jobs in the second quarter, a private industry group said on Tuesday, as the tourism-reliant economy struggles with a third wave of coronavirus infections,
Thailand's most severe outbreak so far started in April and has badly hit domestic spending and travel in the absence of foreign visitors.
TOKYO, June 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son Peter told a Tokyo court on Tuesday that they regretted helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan, where he faced trial for alleged financial crimes.
Flanked by guards, the two men, who were brought into court handcuffed, bowed deeply to the three judges who will decide their sentence, and asked to be allowed to return to the United States to see family.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he may consider running for vice president next year when his term ends “if there is a space for me,” although opponents have described such a prospect as “a joke of the worst kind.”
Duterte’s televised remarks Monday night were the strongest sign that he is considering calls by ruling PDP-Laban party allies for him to run for the vice president post to continue his government programs.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia needs to urgently increase medical care, testing and vaccinations as the number of new infections in the country has rapidly increased and left it “on the edge of a COVID-19 catastrophe,” the Red Cross said Tuesday.
The group said its coronavirus hospital in Bogor, outside of Jakarta, was “overflowing” and emergency tents had been set up to be able to house more patients. It was a similar scene at other hospitals near the capital, including in at the Bekasi city hospital that had 90% of its beds filled.
BEIJING, June 28 (APP): The Matiari-Lahore transmission line project is another example of how China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has contributed to improvement of people’s livelihood and economic development in Pakistan.
“The project will offer local people access to stable and high quality electricity and it’s of great significance to breaking bottleneck of South-North power transmission in Pakistan,” Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during his regular briefing held here on Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 (NNN-Bernama) — The government is ready to consider allowing companies to resume full operations if all the workers have been fully vaccinated, said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
He said the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is coordinating the Public-Private Partnership COVID-19 Industry Immunisation Programme (PIKAS) as an incentive to companies and industries to use their premises as Vaccination Centres (PPVs) and conduct immunisation programmes for employees.
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