Australia begins wide-ranging enquiry into deadly bushfires
[caption id="attachment_1667" align="alignnone" width="749"] FILE PHOTO: The remains of cars that were burnt during the bushfire season, are piled up in the community of Wytaliba,...
Rich, but household debt is growing: A time bomb for South Korea?
South Korean households are piling up debt for various reasons, from overspending on credit cards to unemployment to gambling losses. The programme Undercover Asia looks...
COVID-19: France has lowest daily rise in new cases and deaths since lockdown
FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a closed bar during the lockdown imposed to slow down the spread of the coronavirus in Cambrai, France. ...
US steps up threats to strip Hong Kong’s trading privileges over China security law
[caption id="attachment_1611" align="alignnone" width="793"] Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers holding up placards are blocked by security as they protest China's planned national security legislation during a...
UK plans cut in Huawei’s 5G network involvement: Report
[caption id="attachment_1617" align="alignnone" width="683"] Britain's PM Johnson opens Hidden Harms Summit from London [/caption] LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to reduce Chinese telecoms...
Dozens of Chinese companies added to US blacklist in latest Beijing rebuke
[caption id="attachment_1614" align="alignnone" width="774"] FILE PHOTO: Flags of U.S. and China are placed for a meeting between Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and China's Minister...
South America ‘a new epicentre’ of COVID-19: WHO
[caption id="attachment_1632" align="alignnone" width="825"] A delivery man rides his bike past graffiti depicting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in downtown Rio de Janeiro in March 2020...
US grants tentative approval for 15 airlines to suspend service to 75 airports
[caption id="attachment_1626" align="alignnone" width="692"] FILE PHOTO: A United Airlines passenger jet takes off with New York City as a backdrop, at Newark Liberty International Airport,...
Thailand delays data law by a year as COVID-19 stalls preparations
[caption id="attachment_1620" align="alignnone" width="783"] Staff wearing protective face masks pass their time as they prepare to reopen their shop in a shopping centre during the...
Business groups push Trump to keep skilled-worker visas amid pandemic
[caption id="attachment_1623" align="alignnone" width="827"] FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump pauses in front of a diagram while touring the Ford Rawsonville Components Plant, which is...