A new theatre opens up in the United States with a new Congress sworn in after a comedy of hit and miss performance for selecting the speaker of the House of Representatives. But what will it mean to China and the rest of Asia? Not much, but it will give President Joe Biden a hard […]
Photo taken on Aug 16, 2022 shows the White House in Washington, DC, the United States. (PHOTO / XINHUA) SEOUL – The White House on Tuesday nominated a special envoy for human rights in the Democratic Prople's Republic of Korea, moving to fill a post that has been empty since 2017. President Joe Biden nominated […]
The House speaker election saga is another reminder of the broken US politics The prolonged battle earlier this month for leadership of the United States House of Representatives turned the outflow of frustration with the US political system from a trickle to a torrent. Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, was eventually elected speaker of the House […]
The US Capitol building is seen in Washington, DC, the United States, Nov 4, 2022. (LIU JIE / XINHUA) Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives early on Saturday, after making extensive concessions to right-wing hardliners in his party. McCarthy's victory in the 15th ballot ended the deepest […]
Nepal's newly-elected Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (right) is sworn-in by the President Bidya Devi Bhandari (left) as outgoing prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba (second right) watches at the President's House in Kathmandu on Dec 26, 2022. (PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) KATHMANDU – Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal won a vote of confidence comfortably in […]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, sitting in a room of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Jan 21, 2022, talks in a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden, shown in the monitor. (CABINET SECRETARIAT / KYODO NEWS VIA AP) US President Joe Biden will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida […]
The Joe Biden administration of the United States has launched its new "China House", or the Office of China Coordination, at the State Department, to replace the previous China Desk, which no doubt indicates the significance the present US administration attaches to its China policy. Compared to the China Desk, which was part of the […]
Republicans secured a narrow majority in the House of Representatives on Nov 16 though the final results of the 2022 midterm elections are still to be announced. It was not the expected red wave for the Republicans, but enough to reorder the balance of power in Congress and frustrate President Joe Biden's agenda. In the […]
KUCHING, MALAYSIA, Oct 4, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Civil engineering specialist Sarawak Consolidated Industries Berhad’s (SCIB), wholly-owned subsidiary, SCIB Industrialised Building System Sdn Bhd (SIBS), today unveiled a sample house built using a 3D printing system from COBOD International A/S, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based 3D construction specialist. Group Managing Director and Chief Executive […]
Japanese Hiroyuki Hosoda is applauded after being elected as new speaker of the lower house during a plenary session at the parliament in Tokyo on Nov 10, 2021. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) TOKYO – The chief of Japan's lower house of parliament came under fire Thursday for admitting he had links to the controversial Unification […]
US House speaker’s Taiwan visit brings huge humiliation for Washington Now that the dust is settling down on the great US drama, it can be seen that House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on Aug 2 was not just unwise, reckless and extremely damaging to prospects to defuse Sino-US tensions over the […]
Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party, reacts after placing a red paper rose on an LDP candidate's name, to indicate a victory in the upper house election, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan on July 10, 2022. (TORU HANAI, POOL PHOTO VIA AP) TOKYO – Japan's ruling bloc […]
A voter casts a ballot in the upper house elections as representatives of a local election administration commission observe at a polling station, July 10, 2022, in Tokyo. (EUGENE HOSHIKO / AP) TOKYO – Japanese voters went to the polls on Sunday for an upper house election in which the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) […]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (center) gestures as he attends an election campaign stop by Liberal Democratic Party member Keiichiro Asao (not pictured) at Yokohama station in Yokohama on June 24, 2022. (Philip FONG / AFP) TOKYO – (This July 6 story corrects the year of establishment of DPFP to 2020 from 2000) Japan holds […]
President-elect Ferdinand 'Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (4th from left) poses beside (from left) Senator Imee Marcos, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, Imelda Marcos, House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, Irene Marcos, Maria Louise Marcos and House Majority leader Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, during his proclamation ceremony at the House of Representatives, Quezon City, Philippines on May 25, 2022. […]
Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Nov 1, 2021. (RODRIGO REYES MARIN / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) TOKYO – Japan concluded its 150-day regular parliamentary session Wednesday, with the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida deciding amid political […]
US President Joe Biden (left), with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second left), meets virtually with members of the "Quad" alliance of Australia, India, Japan and the US, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2021. On screens are then Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Indian Prime […]
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The Republic of Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol shows a bird's eye view of his planned relocation of the presidential office during a press conference at his transition team office in Seoul on March 20, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE / POOL / AFP) SEOUL – The Republic of Korea's cabinet approved nearly $30 million on Wednesday to […]
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his policy speech during the opening of the lower house of the parliament session in Tokyo on Jan 17, 2022. (PHILIP FONG / AFP) TOKYO – Japan's parliament on Tuesday enacted a record 107.60 trillion yen ($900 billion) budget for fiscal 2022 to cater to ballooning social security and […]
This picture taken on May 2, 2021 shows smoke filling the sky as Sydney is enveloped in a thick bank of hazardous bushfire smoke forcing authorities in Australia's largest city to scale back controlled forest burning nearby. (SAEED KHAN / AFP) SYDNEY – A fire at a boarding house in Australia's Sydney has killed three […]
Australian federal police forensic team members (left) examine the site after the entrance of Australia's Old Parliament House caught fire during an Aboriginal rights protest in Canberra on Dec 30, 2021. (GARY RAMAGE / AFP) CANBERRA – The front entrance of the Old Parliament House in Australia's capital Canberra was damaged on Thursday after the […]
This Oct 16, 2020 photo shows a general view of Istanbul's Golden Horn showing the Unkapani Bridge (right), Halic Metro Bridge (second right) and Suleymaniye Mosque (left top). (OZAN KOSE / AFP) ISTANBUL – Turkish house sales to foreigners jumped nearly 50 percent to a record level in November, data showed on Tuesday, bringing in […]
Editor's Note: Since the launch of the housing reform in the mid-1990s, the ratio of house ownership in China has increased drastically; in fact, it is higher than in many developed countries. But it will take a lot more efforts to solve the urban housing problem, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily in the second […]
Officials of the election administration committee open ballot boxes to count the votes for Japan's general election in Tokyo on Oct 31, 2021. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP) TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was forecast to hold on to its majority in Sunday's parliamentary election although it suffered losses that […]
Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan on Oct 4, 2021. (TORU HANAI / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) TOKYO – Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are likely to take a bruising at the weekend's lower house election, though the […]
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivers a speech during the Paralympic Flame Lighting Ceremony at the State Guest House Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Aug 20, 2021. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP) TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Wednesday that he had no plans to dissolve the country's lower house because of […]
This handout photo from Malaysia's Department of Information taken and released on Aug 21, 2021 shows Malaysia's incoming Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob (left) receiving documents from King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah before taking the oath as the country's new leader at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur. (KHIRUL NIZAM ZANIL / MALAYSIA'S DEPARTMENT […]
KATHMANDU – The Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday ordered the House of Representatives to be reinstated and directed the office of the president to appoint Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as new prime minister. The constitutional bench of the court ruled that Deuba will be appointed as prime minister in two days and […]
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends a plenary session during G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall on June 13, 2021. (PHIL NOBLE / POOL / AFP) TOKYO – Japan's lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted down a no-confidence motion against Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet jointly filed by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic […]