SINGAPORE, Aug 18, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Research has shown that post-pandemic, people have amended their laundry habits, developed better hygiene habits and overall become more conscious of environmental impacts on our planet. Laundry will and has always been that never-ending chore – having said that the pandemic has brought it to […]
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the International Court of Justice after the first day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Dec 10, 2019. (PETER DEJONG / FILE / AP) YANGON – Myanmar's former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to six more years in jail for […]
A man contemplates his next move as he plays chess in Hyde Park in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Aug 11, 2022. (AMRK BAKER / AP) CANBERRA – The Australian government has flagged an increase to the country's migrant intake. Brendan O'Connor, minister for skills and training, said the new Labor government was […]
People wade alongside submerged cars in a street during heavy rainfall in the Gangnam district of Seoul on Aug 8, 2022. (YONHAP / AFP) SEOUL – Torrential rains that have slammed South Korea's capital, Seoul, diminished on Wednesday after killing at least nine people and damaging about 2,800 homes and other buildings. More rain was […]
A photo shows inflatable COVID-19 testing labs in Sanya, South China's Hainan province, Aug 7, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The island province of Hainan is fighting a COVID-19 flare-up, with its holiday resort city of Sanya reporting more than 800 symptomatic and over 400 asymptomatic cases over the past week. The situation has prompted the […]
Tallinn, Estonia, August 09, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – Frontnode, the Estonian-licensed crypto exchange focusing on bitcoin only, announced today the future listing of prominent crypto assets Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP and Dogecoin. In a statement, Sirje Soo, the company’s CEO says: “Up until now, our focus has been to provide the most accessible way for users to invest in […]
Babies are swimming in a pool at Qionghai, Hainan province, July 30, 2022. (PHOTO / VCG) After four decades in which China's population has grown from over 950 million to 1.4 billion, the country's population growth is expected to be negative soon. Having grown by 2.04 million in 2020, it grew by only 480,000 in […]
Victims of a gas leakage in the Sachin GIDC area, that reportedly kill 6 people and hospitalized 20 others, receive treatment at a Civil Hospital in Surat, some 270 kms from Ahmedabad, India on Jan 6, 2022. (AFP) More than 50 women at an apparel manufacturing unit of the Brandix Special Economic Zone (SEZ) near […]
For the first time ever, a heatwave has been given an official name. And that is a bad sign for the world. Until recently, only hurricanes and typhoons had names, but now, the Spanish city of Seville has developed a naming and ranking system for heatwaves, and named the first one “Zoe”. Bearing down on […]
US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the media on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will provide China a "victory of sorts" if she backs off from an expected trip to Taiwan, and urged the United States to sell more weapons to Taiwan. This is totally absurd, but a very representative and telling sign […]
A picture taken on October 21, 2017 shows jellyfish swimming at the Jerusalem aquarium. (THOMAS COEX / AFP) HAIFA, Israel – Ghostly swarms of jellyfish along Israel's coast have banished summer bathers from the Mediterranean waters and raised warnings about the dangers of ecological imbalance due to climate change. The jellyfish, which flourish at higher […]
Iranians walk down a street in the capital Tehran on Dec 28, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) DUBAI – Iran has imposed sanctions on 61 more Americans, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, for backing an Iranian dissident group, Tehran said on Saturday as months of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal remained […]
(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) A global food crisis is looming, so policymakers everywhere need to think hard about how to make food cheaper and more plentiful. That requires making a commitment to produce more fertilizers and better seeds, maximize the potential offered by genetic modification and abandon the rich world's obsession with organics. The […]
People wearing face masks cross a road in the rain near a subway station in Seoul, South Korea on July 13, 2022. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) HANOI / MANILA / NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE / BAKU / SEOUL / WELLINGTON / SYDNEY – Daily COVID-19 infections in South Korea have jumped above 40,000 for the first time in […]
This Sept 23, 2018 photo shows a Myanmar migrant worker handling barrels of cotton in a textile factory in Pathum Thani province of Thailand. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) BANGKOK – Thailand is short more than half a million migrant workers, the country's Chamber of Commerce said on Tuesday, as Southeast Asia's second-largest economy struggles with […]
By targeting China in its official summit statement for the first time, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is attempting to disrupt the relative peaceful seas in the Western side of the Pacific. At the end of its summit on June 30, NATO unveiled its “Strategic Concept” in which it said that the allies face systemic […]
In this photo dated June 4, 2014, waves break on the coastline in Tamakautoga, Niue. (NICK PERRY / AP) SUVA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / BISHKEK / NEW DELHI / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON / CANBERRA / ISLAMABAD / SEOUL – New Zealand Defense Force said on Wednesday it had flown a team of civilian doctors, […]
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on a street in Tokyo, March 14, 2022. (KOJI SASAHARA / AP) TOKYO – Japan's real wages extended a decline in May to post the biggest year-on-year drop in nearly two years, government data showed on Tuesday, as consumer inflation hovering near […]
People stand next to a flooded petrol station due to torrential rain in the Camden suburb of Sydney on July 3, 2022. (MUHAMMAD FAROOQ / AFP) SYDNEY – Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains flooded several suburbs in Australia's largest city, with officials warning […]
US President Joe Biden looks set to take full advantage of next week's two important summit meetings with the leaders of the other Western countries to forge a more cohesive stance against Russia and China. According to media reports, apart from exerting more pressure on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, both the upcoming G7 Summit […]
A woman receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during the first rollout of vaccinations in Australia at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney on Feb 21, 2021. (STEVEN SAPHORE / AFP) CANBERRA / DHAKA / BEIRUT / NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON / KUALA LUMPUR – The Australian government announced a new campaign on Wednesday to encourage people […]
People gather to collect food aid in a flooded area following heavy monsoon rainfalls in Companiganj on June 20, 2022. (MARUF RAHMAN / AFP) DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India – Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking […]
Singapore, June 21, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – B2B esports events and media company Esports Insider is excited to reveal the agenda and full lineup of speakers for our international two-day esports business conference – ESI Singapore. The event, which is co-hosted with Singapore-based Esports marketing agency, REDD+E, takes place on 6-7th July. […]
In this file photo taken on April 26, 2021, commuters wearing protective face masks walk along Pratunam pier in Bangkok, after the government imposed strict restrictions for not wearing a mask in public following the recent outbreak of COVID-19 cases in Thailand. (MLADEN ANTONOV / AFP) SYDNEY / NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON / BANGKOK / SEOUL […]
Health officials of the Pyongyang Sports Goods Factory disinfect the floor of a work place in Pyongyang, the DPRK, June 14, 2022. (CHA SONG HO / AP) SEOUL – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and other senior officials prepared aid to send to 800 families suffering from an unidentified intestinal epidemic, […]
One has to wonder why Hong Kong allows indoor venues to blast excessively cold air through air-conditioning ducts all day long and all year round. It is not only uncomfortable, especially when wearing light clothing or when perspiring heavily, but one has to wonder about the effects this can have on our health and on […]
Rather than promote common development of the United States' neighbors to the south, the "Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity" that US President Joe Biden proposed at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on Wednesday aims to counter China's influence in the region at the cost of the countries themselves. The initiative, like its […]
The United States has long professed to be a "beacon of human rights". Former president Ronald Reagan invoked the Bible and pilgrim John Winthrop, metaphorically referring to "American exceptionalism" and likening the US to "the shining city on a hill". But with two mass shootings last month by 18-year-old gunmen with assault rifles in Buffalo, […]
Officials prepare the exhibition stands at the venue for the G20 finance ministers and central governors meeting in Jakarta on Feb 16, 2022, scheduled to take place on Feb 17-18. (MAST IRHAM / POOL / AFP) Indonesians are looking forward to the G20 Summit to be held in the country later this year, with the […]
Editor's note: More than four decades of reform and opening-up have not only transformed China into the world's second-biggest economy but also led to the re-emergence of the advertising sector in the country. A veteran journalist with China Daily looks at the ups and downs of advertising in China. A high-fidelity digital human, developed by […]