Category: World

SINGAPORE: Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has been placed on home detention, local media reported Friday, four months after receiving a 12-month prison sentence. Iswaran,

PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was fitted with an electronic tag on Friday after being convicted of corruption, prosecutors said — a first for

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to

WASHINGTON: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters was closed on Monday, with employees instructed to work remotely, United Press International (UPI) reported.

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of US government websites, including USAID’s, were offline on Monday, an AFP review found.  The outage affected over 350 federal sites from a

BEIJING: China has eased some travel restrictions on Uyghurs but still imposes “severe controls” on those seeking to go abroad or visit family in Xinjiang,

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has completed the restoration of a more than 1,000-year-old brick temple on the north side of Phnom Krom Temple in the UNESCO-listed

SEOUL: A travel agency has opened bookings for a tour to North Korea’s Rason to mark the late leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday, offering foreign

BEIJING: The US has long accused China of enabling the fentanyl trade, which officials say is now the leading cause of death among Americans aged