TOKYO: Japan Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday last week’s trilateral meeting with his US and South Korean counterparts likely laid the groundwork for Tokyo to take appropriate action in the foreign exchange market. “I voiced strong concern on how a weak yen pushes up import costs. Our view…
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SINGAPORE — Wearing his wife’s black dress to avoid being identified, a man held a kitchen knife near a 74-year-old cashier’s face in an attempt to rob a convenience store. Mahmoud Abdeltawwab Riad Abdelhak, 39, was sentenced on Tuesday (April 23) to two years and six months’ jail and six strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to one charge of attempted robbery and one charge of theft in dwelling. While he was on station…
In 2023, CAAS took enforcement actions against 309 cases of unlawful unmanned aircraft operations. Eight…
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by dozens of aftershocks late on…
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Mr Ong said that he reached out to the manufacturer Fanco Fan Marketing on April 1 and it sent a technician “with the intention of installing new fan blades for (the family)”. However, upon inspecting the fan, company personnel informed Mr Ong that the fan was “off-centre and too close to…
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LONDON: British TV news presenter Huw Edwards, who has been off air since last year after allegations that he paid a young person thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos, has resigned following medical advice, the broadcaster said on Monday (Apr 22). Edwards, 62, was the BBC’s highest-paid news presenter and…
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TOKYO : A key measure of Japan’s trend inflation slowed to 1.3 per cent in March, marking the smallest year-on-year increase in 11 months, data showed on Tuesday.The rise in the weighted median inflation rate, which is closely watched as an indicator of whether price rises are broadening, followed a…
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DO LIKE THE KIDS DO Jill Dreves, the founder of Wild Bear Nature Center in Nederland, Colorado, has a simple recipe for getting dirty: Make a mud pie. She suggested throwing something similar to a sip and paint event: Ask everyone to bring an old cake pan and get creative…
