WASHINGTON : U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet for the second time with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Feb. 27-28 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
“My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting...
RIO DE JANEIRO : Fourteen people died in a shooting in a Rio slum on Friday, local authorities said.
The shooting occurred in the Fallet-Fogueteiro slum, located in the Santa Teresa neighborhood, which is close to Rio’s historical center and has some tourist spots, in Rio’s downtown...
TAIPEI : The ratio of the working-age population to the entire population in Taiwan fell from 74.22 percent in 2012 to 72.62 percent at the end of 2018, indicating a growing burden on the island’s workforce, according to its interior affairs authority.
Taiwan had a registered population of...
WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not expect to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline in trade war negotiations between the two economic superpowers. “Not yet,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if a meeting had...
BANGKOK : A Thai princess will run for prime minister in March elections, in an unprecedented entry by a royal into frontline politics which pits her against the chief of the ruling junta, throwing into disarray his bid to stay in power. Princess Ubolratana, 67, the older sister of Thai King...
TAIPEI : A pilot strike has forced Taiwan-based China Airlines to cancel 22 flights departing from the island on Friday and Saturday, affecting about 4,000 passengers, the airline said. The canceled flights include those for destinations such as Beijing, Shanghai, Wuxi, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong...
CÚCUTA, Colombia : Trucks carrying desperately-needed humanitarian aid for crisis-wracked Venezuela arrived at its border with Colombia on Thursday as ministers from more than a dozen European and Latin American countries called on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to hold “free”...
MANILA : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) agreed on Friday to increase their co-financing commitment from 3 billion U.S. dollars in the past three years to 5 billion dollars in the next three years, allowing them to scale up their joint development...
PARIS : Suicides have fallen globally by more than a third since 1990, according to a far-reaching analysis released Thursday that highlighted profound differences in the number of men and women taking their own lives. The World Health Organization lists suicide as a critical public health issue...
WASHINGTON : In his two years serving in the US Treasury, David Malpass has repeatedly lambasted the big development lenders as wasteful and ineffective, and called for reforms. Now he is poised to take over the helm of the World Bank, where he can put his own stamp on its policies —...
