Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday called for term limits and mental competency tests in Congress, arguing that ‘we need people at the top of their game’ after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest episode of freezing up in ...
CHINESE nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have accessed military bases and sensitive sites in the US as many as 100 times in recent years, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday, citing US officials who described the incidents as ...
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday he had decided to replace his defense minister, setting the stage for the biggest shake-up of Ukraine’s defense establishment since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. In his nightly ...
JAPANESE women are missing out on around ¥111 trillion ($761 billion) in pay for a range of household tasks they do for free, an amount that’s roughly equivalent to a fifth of the country’s economy. While men also engage in ...
HANOI — The United States expects to elevate its diplomatic relations with former foe Vietnam to the top level as President Joseph R. Biden travels to Hanoi in a week, in a move that may irk China and with unclear ...
New Zealand‘s SkyCity Entertainment on Monday said the country’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has applied to temporarily suspend the license of its SkyCity Casino Management (SCML) unit, sending the casino operator’s shares down 18.5%. The application was made to the country’s gambling commission to suspend the unit’s casino operator’s license for a “range of 10 ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020. The 60-point agenda was meant to fix an obsolete growth model ...
SYDNEY – More than half of Australians would reject the inclusion of an Indigenous advisory panel in the constitution, a newspaper poll showed on Monday, as the government struggles to lift support for the landmark proposal ahead of a vote in about six weeks. The latest news poll conducted for The Australian newspaper showed support ...
TAIPEI – Taiwan worked to restore power to more than 30,000 households after Typhoon Haikui barreled into the east and south of the island, as cities and counties in the affected areas closed schools and businesses and domestic airlines cancelled flights. Haikui made landfall in the mountainous and sparsely populated ...
The dog days of August are mercifully over. And as Wall Street gets back to work, new trends are emerging which could influence what the stock market does for the rest of the year. Here are the macro crosscurrents to ...