Triumphant Marcos faces high expectations from Philippines poor
AFP - Asia - 11/05/2022
Despite his Oxford education and jet-set lifestyle, the Philippines’s president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Junior sailed to victory this week as a champion of the poor
Now they expect him to deliver.
Residents of the impoverished Baseco neighbourhood in Manila do not…
South Korea's Yoon calls on North to trade nukes for aid
AFP - South Korea - 10/05/2022
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol called on the North to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for massive economic aid at his swearing-in Tuesday, describing Pyongyang’s missiles as a threat to regional and global security
Yoon, 61, who started work in…
Hong Kong's next leader vows reboot but no zero-Covid exit timeline
AFP - Hong Kong - 29/04/2022
Hong Kong’s next leader unveiled a manifesto Friday vowing to restore the business hub to its former glory but would not be drawn on when the city might discard zero-Covid controls that have left it internationally cut off
John Lee, a former top cop and security…
Russia accused of stoking divisions in Bosnia amid war in Ukraine
AFP - Bosnia/Herzegovina - 29/04/2022
As war rages in Ukraine, more than a thousand miles away in Bosnia observers are warning that Russia is fanning the embers of separatism which could spell trouble for the deeply divided Balkan country
Since the end of the war that claimed around 100,000 lives between 1992…
42 hurt in clashes at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound
AFP - Israel - 29/04/2022
Fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound injured 42 people on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, following weeks of violence at the flashpoint site
The unrest came on the final Friday in the Muslim holy…
China Mobile aims to pocket $7.6 bn in Shanghai IPO
AFP - International - 21/12/2021
China Mobile is aiming to raise $7.64 billion in a Shanghai share listing, documents filed Tuesday showed, after the telecoms giant was delisted in New York tensions between Beijing and Washington worsened
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The 48.7 billion…
Egypt hosts UN anti-corruption conference
Xinhua - 14/12/2021
The ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP9) to the UN Convention against Corruption kicked off on Monday in Egypt’s resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh. The session will last until Dec. 17, with more than 2,000 participants from governments, regional…
US will 'pay the price' for Olympics boycott, says Beijing
AFP - International - 07/12/2021
China warned that the United States (US) would “pay the price” for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns
The US move — which stopped short of preventing athletes from attending — comes after Washington…
Bissau is 'catastrophic' and close to a failed state, says PAIGC
Lusa - Guinea-Bissau - 03/12/2021
The leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), said on Thursday that the situation in Guinea-Bissau is “catastrophic” and that the country is in danger of becoming a failed state
“The situation in the country…
China-Africa cooperation has a brighter future, according to experts
Xinhua - 03/12/2021
China released a white paper on China-Africa cooperation in the new era today. According to experts from African countries, the white paper has comprehensively and systematically introduced the major achievements of China-Africa cooperation, and demonstrated the brotherly…
