Farm ministry starts accepting applications for older rice from small buyers
The agriculture ministry on Friday started accepting applications from smaller retailers and rice shops to purchase older batches of the...
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Student jailed for more than 25 weeks for attacking 5 on Hong Kong campus
A student has been sentenced to more than 25 weeks in prison after admitting to attacking a woman who asked...
NATO faces make-or-break decision on a post-US future
NATO is facing a pivotal moment in its history.Ahead of its June 24-25 summit in The Hague, NATO is weighing...
US Investment Firm to Beat Path for 2026 IPO of Uzbek State Assets – The Diplomat
If second marriages are the triumph of hope over experience, what about one’s 16th, or 17th, or 18th, attempt at...
PH, Japan strengthen partnership amid regional security concerns
MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya underscored the strong ties between the...
Chagos Islands: Why has U.K. handed it over to Mauritius after 50 years?
Story so far: Mauritius won a strategic victory on May 22, 2025, when the United Kingdom (U.K.) officially handed over...
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un leads meeting on strengthening military, inspects artillery drill
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a party meeting on strengthening the military on May 28 and...
Trump’s tariff tally: $34 billion and counting, global companies say
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK/BENGALURU – U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war has cost companies more than $34 billion in lost sales...
‘Trickle’ of global inflows to Chinese stocks could become a ‘flood’: Cambridge Associates
Global investors are reassessing their US-heavy portfolios and looking at undervalued equities in Hong Kong and mainland China to “provide...
A 16th-century Chinese writer’s take on workplace burnout
We are in the middle of a global workplace burnout epidemic. Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han has aptly coined the term...
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