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Is Taiwan ready for bilingual education? In light of the government’s new policy goal, many foreigners living in Taiwan have expressed concerns regarding the protection of their labour rights. The government aims to turn Taiwan into a bilingual nation over the next ten years by attracting foreign teachers from across the Asia Pacific region. |
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SINGAPORE (Channel News Asia/World News Day) — There are almost a million unskilled and semi-skilled foreign workers in Singapore, and those from Bangladesh form a large percentage of the group. They build our homes, clean our streets and take up essential roles in our plants and factories. |
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Thailand has built what’s being described as the biggest industrial-scale medical marijuana facility in Southeast Asia. The medical marijuana facility in Chiang Mai has 12,000 plants under cultivation. Thailand will soon allow all Thais to grow six cannabis plants “in their backyards like any other herb. |
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BANGKOK – A fascinating new documentary has revealed how Thailand’s Immigration Bureau arrested key players of a forgery gang. The supplied forged passports of the highest quality to foreign criminals. Forging a New Identity by Channel News Asia recounts the arrest in 2016 of Iranian, Hamid Reza Jafary. |
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Direct and personal meetings at dinner are becoming increasingly important in the digital age, says Latvian entrepreneur Janis Kulikovskis, whose goal is to develop trade relations between Western Europe, Asian countries, and Africa. “While more and more people are drowning deeper into the virtual.... |
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SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - Key oil freight rates from the Middle East to Asia rocketed as much as 28% on Friday in a global oil shipping market spooked by United States sanctions on units of Chinese giant COSCO for alleged involvement in ferrying crude out of Iran.
In what the State Department called “one of the largest sanctions actions the U. |
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Reports that American firms may not be allowed to supply China's Huawei hit chipmakers and tech firms last night in the United States and this morning in Asia. Chinese shares are near three week lows after data showed industrial firms; profits contracted last month by 2%, highlighting the impact trade wars are having. |
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U.S. feed crop exports to countries like Vietnam, Myanmar and the Philippines surged nearly 50% last year to a record 12.3 million tonnes. That helped to cushion the blow of a slump that wiped out nearly three-quarters of China sales of the same crops as Washington and Beijing exchanged tit-for-tat trade tariffs. |
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In This Edition Chromatography. - Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy: A Versatile Tool for Analysis of Gasoline and Jet Fuels - High-performance Columns and Bulk for your Chromatography - New Leak Detector Prevents Small Leaks from Causing Big Problems Mass Spectrometry & Spectroscopy. |
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Greetings! In today’s bulletin: Japan’s defence review places China as a top security threat; Hong Kong braces for more protests this weekend; Malaysian PM Mahathir says he will serve for three years; and more. Reading this on the web or know someone who might enjoy receiving Asian Insider?
JAPAN SINGLES OUT CHINA AS ITS TOP SECURITY THREAT. |
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MELAKA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A Malaysian non-governmental organisation (NGO) has questioned why recycled decorations from Singapore are being used to adorn Melaka's Little India in conjunction with the Deepavali festival next month. The Melaka Consumer and Environment Association said it.... |
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KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The deadline for Malaysia to decide on the RM4 billion (S$1.3 billion) Rapid Transit System (RTS) project to link Johor Baru and Singapore has been extended by one more month. It is learnt that the Malaysian government made the request for the extension during a recent meeting. |
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The downtown rally was one of a series of protests that have united activists denouncing Chinese...
The public "dialogue session" is the pro-Beijing government's first attempt to sit down...
Police clashed with thousands of protesters in the former British colony on July 28 as they sought to... |
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Conscious of China’s ambitions with its Belt and Road programme, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker inked their accord on coordinating major projects connecting Europe and Asia © AFP / JOHN THYS Brussels, Belgium, Sep 27 – The EU and Japan on Friday... |
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Over halfway into Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term, the train he promised to build across the southern island of Mindanao has yet to break ground. Duterte, the first Filipino president to hail from the nation’s south, touted the Mindanao Railway Project (MRP) as among his.... |
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It has been over two months since British Columbia (BC) utility firm FortisBC announced that it had secured Canada’s first term contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China. It is also Canada’s first to Asia. In normal times, a breakthrough deal of this magnitude heralding the start of a.... |
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There has been significant growth in cryptocurrency-related fundraising and merger and acquisition activity across Asia this year, showing the broader expansion and maturation of the digital-currency sector in the region. While most crypto deals took place in the Americas last year, 2019 has seen.... |
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Rushing to open new facilities to attract more passengers, Beijing and Shanghai, China’s two largest urban centers, are locked in an intense rivalry, aiming to become the pre-eminent aviation nodes serving Asia. An army of construction crews working flat-out at Shanghai’s Pudong International.... |
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(AGENPARL) – Quezon City (Philippines), sab 28 settembre 2019 Video by KIM Quilinguing, UP Media and Public Relations Office. The Fighting Maroons snatched a razor-thin victory, 72-71, from the Green Archers, who had led for almost 39 minutes of the 40-minute regulation time on September 25, 2019 at the Mall of Asia Arena. |
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SINGAPORE, Sept 27, 2019 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Energy Solutions and NEC Asia Pacific jointly revealed today that NEC provided its 400kW, 400kWh GSS end-to-end Grid Storage Solution and AEROS proprietary energy storage controls software as part of SP Group's innovative hybrid system which recently.... |
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MANILA, Philippines The Gilas Pilipinas women's squad remained in Division A after routing India, 92-78, in the classification stage of the FIBA Women's Asia Cup held in India on Friday. After going winless in their three group stage matches, the Filipina cagers were able to score a victory and avoid relegation. |
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The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia as a counter to China’s ambitious “Belt and Road” strategy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker inked the accord to coordinate infrastructure, transport and digital projects. |
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The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed a pilot competition to crown a women's club champion. The AFC says a four-team event with the champions of Australia, China, Japan and South Korea will be played from Nov 26-30. The Asian soccer body says the tournament is "a vital step forward in women's club football throughout the continent. |
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The European Union and Japan signed an infrastructure deal on Friday to co-ordinate transport, energy and digital projects linking Europe and Asia, seeking an alternative to Chinese largesse that has raised suspicion in Brussels and Tokyo. The accord, signed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and.... |
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The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia, as a counter to China's ambitious "Belt and Road" strategy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker inked the accord to coordinate infrastructure, transport and digital projects connecting Europe and Asia. |
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