New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (left) and his Depute Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni attend their first press conference at Parliament in Wellington on Jan 22, 2023. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Monday that his government would be "making haste" on reprioritizing and looking […]
New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins speaks at his first press conference at Parliament in Wellington on Jan 22, 2023. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Monday that his government would be "making haste" on reprioritizing and looking at whether current policies need to be […]
Commuters walk in the Central Business District at lunch time in Sydney June 28, 2013. (DANIEL MUNOZ / REUTERS) SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia's population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to drive growth, though a speedy recovery in migration […]
Commuters walk in the Central Business District at lunch time in Sydney June 28, 2013. (DANIEL MUNOZ / REUTERS) SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia's population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to drive growth, though a speedy recovery in migration […]
This handout photograph taken on Nov 14, 2022 and released by New South Wales State Emergency Service shows officials efforting in rescue work in the flooded towns around the overflowing Wyangala Dam near Cowra. (HANDOUT / NSW STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP) CANBERRA – The premier of the Australian state of South Australia (SA) has […]
A view of Indonesia's Parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov 23, 2017. (BEAWIHARTA / REUTERS) JAKARTA – Indonesia's parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that will penalize sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, officials have confirmed. The legislative overhaul will also ban insulting […]
A woman prays after offering a bouquet of flowers at the memorial area set up for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shown in pictures, at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on July 14, 2022. (HIRO KOMAE / AP PHOTO) TOKYO – Japan will spend about 1.65 billion yen ($12 million) on […]
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leaves after meeting with leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and collation partners of the newly formed government during his visit in Karachi on April 13, 2022. (ASIF HASSAN / AFP) ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif traveled to Qatar on Tuesday in the hope of generating trade and […]
In this file photo taken in Nov 1, 2021, Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa presents his national statement as part of the World Leaders' Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. (ANDY BUCHANAN / POOL / AFP) COLOMBO – Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to the […]
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 8, 2022. (RODRIGO PEYES MARIN / POOL / AFP) TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit Southeast Asia and possibly countries in Europe during the upcoming Golden Week string of national holidays starting in late April, sources […]
Toyota City, Japan, Jan 18, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – At Toyota, we have made repeated adjustments to our production plans due to a parts shortage resulting from the spread of COVID-19, causing various inconveniences to our customers and all parties concerned. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved for […]
Police officers walk past the Sydney Opera House in Sydney on Oct 10, 2021, a day before the expected easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Australia's largest city. (STEVEN SAPHORE / AFP) Australia’s economy posted a smaller-than-forecast contraction, a result that’s likely to reinforce views the Reserve Bank will taper or potentially even scrap its bond […]
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during his news conference at his office in Tokyo on Sept 9, 2021. (KIM KYUNG-HOON / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to call an extraordinary Diet session on Oct 4 to determine a new prime minister, ahead of a general election possibly to be […]
TOKYO, Aug 3, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) announces that it revises its forecast of consolidated business results for the first half of the year ending on December 31, 2021 and that for the full year ending on December 31, 2021, both of which were announced on July 8, […]
Iranian national flags flutter in the capital Tehran on May 9, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) DUBAI – Candidates began signing up on Tuesday for Iran's June 18 presidential polls, with the clerical establishment hoping for a high turnout in a vote seen as a referendum on the handling of the Islamic Republic’s political and […]
A man walks on the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo on Tuesday as Olympic rings are seen in the background. (KOJI SASAHARA / AP) Japan stepped up its vaccination and restriction efforts on Monday to blunt a fourth wave of the contagion as it grapples with more infectious variants and a slow rollout of vaccines just […]
With COVID-19 vaccination programs rolling out in different countries, the global economic and business environment is expected to start improving in the second half of this year. But China has already shown a more apparent growth momentum and is set to lead the economic recovery of Asia and even the world. In all this, the […]
Residents wade through a flooded street in Dili on April 9, 2021, after torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja killed more than 200 people across East Timor and neighboring eastern Indonesia. (PHOTO / AFP) MELBOURNE – Authorities in Western Australia were urging residents of its Mid West coast to find safe shelter or leave on […]
LONDON, Jan 26, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report expects the UK’s ad market to grow by 15.2% this year, an upgrade of 0.8 percentage points from the last forecast in October 2020. The preliminary estimate for growth in 2020 now stands at -7.9% with adspend of GBP 23.17bn – […]