Last Updated:March 28, 2025, 13:48 IST Asian stocks slid on Friday with heavy selling in South Korea and Japan while safehaven gold was perched at a record high as the latest tariff salvo from U.S. President Donald Trump stoked investor worries of an allout trade war. Gold prices hit record highs amid worries over full-blown
F.B.I. agents stationed overseas had sex with prostitutes in Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand, even as some bureau employees attended training meant to combat human trafficking, a practice that often exploits vulnerable women, according to an investigation by the Justice Department’s watchdog. The document, made public on Thursday in response to a lawsuit by The
Last Updated:March 25, 2025, 11:14 IST A senior official from a major US ally in the Indo-Pacific, speaking anonymously to CNN-News18, mentioned the rise of radical Islamic organisations, such as Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), which was banned in 2009 but recently held a march in Dhaka Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Md Yunus, who has strong ties with the
Last Updated:March 23, 2025, 15:53 IST Clutch plays from Arvind Krishnan and Pranav Prince on both ends of the floor enabled India to eke out the all-important win against Bahrain in the FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers. Indian basketball team in action (X) India displayed poise in the endgame to survive the hard-fighting Bahrain 81-77 in
South Korean and U.S. Navy vessels steam in formation during a joint naval exercise in international waters off South Korea’s southern island of Jeju at an undisclosed location on April 4, 2023. Handout by South Korean Defense Ministry/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Handout by South Korean Defense Ministry/Getty Images As he did with NATO
President Trump’s late-night decree Friday led to orders gutting the Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international broadcasters. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Journalists showed up at the Voice of America today to broadcast their programs only to be told they had been locked out: Federal officials had embarked on indefinite mass
Last Updated:March 13, 2025, 20:43 IST UN health experts said Romania had the most measles infections, at more than 30,000, followed by Kazakhstan, which reported 28,147 people with measles Measles is among the world’s most infectious diseases and is spread by an airborne virus. (AP file photo) There were 1,27,350 measles cases reported in Europe
President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Michael George DeSombre to serve as the next U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific. Trump made the announcement on Tuesday, posting on Truth Social that DeSombre served during the president’s first term as the ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand. DeSombre is a
Last Updated:March 03, 2025, 07:21 IST MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was flat, though Japan’s Nikkei rose 1.1%, helped by a softer yen. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures were both up 0.1%, having staged a late rally on Friday after a week of heavy losses. Market fears were fanned on Sunday
There are usually no international flights out of the airport in Mae Sot, a town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. But in recent days, hundreds of people here boarded direct flights back home to China. They had been rescued from Myanmar, where they were ensnared in a 21st-century scourge — online scam mills that have