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Risk of Islamic State obtaining the nuclear bomb is real: Obama
(From AP)
World leaders declared progress in securing nuclear materials worldwide but warned of a persistent and harrowing threat: terrorists getting their hands on a nuclear bomb. “It would change our world,” President Barack Obama said.
So far, no terrorists have gotten a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb, Obama said, crediting global efforts to secure nuclear material. But he said it ...
ASIA UNHEDGED
Vice finance minister says S&P exaggerates China’s troubles
Shi Yaobin, China's vice finance minister, is a little irked with Standard & Poor's cutting its outlook for China to negative from stable on Thursday.
On Friday, the vice finance minister, the first senior Chinese official to respond said the ratings ...
China’s manufacturing sector expands for 1st time in 9 months
After months of largely negative reports, the Chinese economy received some good news Friday, when an official survey showed that activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in March for the first time in nine months. The service sector expanded as ...
‘Asia Super Grid’ eyed by Japan Softbank boss takes embryonic step
(From Asahi Shimbun)
Softbank Group Corp.'s hopes of building a cross-border power grid in Northeast Asia got a welcome nod March 30 when a feasibility study was agreed in Beijing.
SBG, along with State Grid Corp. of China, Russia’s power transmission and ...
US Employment Report: Bedpans, Burgers and Short Hours
The American economy added 215,000 jobs in March, mostly at the bottom of the wage spectrum. Healthcare and social assistance accounted for 44,000 jobs, retail trade for 48,000, and leisure/hospitaly for 40,000. Manufacturing and mining, usually better-paid sectors, meanwhile lost ...
ASIA TIMES NEWS & FEATURES
Air France cabin crew angry over rule to wear headscarf on Tehran flights
(From AFP)
A number of female Air France cabin crew are resisting an airline ruling that they should wear a headscarf while in Tehran, when flights ...
Thai authorities seize thousands of ‘political’ red bowls
(From AFP)
Thai authorities have confiscated nearly 6,000 red bowls bearing a message from an ousted ex-premier, a police officer said Sunday, in the junta's latest ...
Japanese warships, sub in Philippines near disputed waters
(From AFP)
Two Japanese destroyers and a submarine docked at a Philippine port on Sunday near disputed South China Sea waters, where Beijing's increasingly assertive behaviour ...
Some prominent Chinese are chafing against censorship
(From Los Angeles Times)
The editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times, a tabloid closely tied to the Communist Party and known for its often-rabid nationalism, isn’t exactly ...
Indonesia threatens to bar DiCaprio over rainforest remarks
(From AP)
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio may be banned from returning to Indonesia over his criticisms that palm oil plantations are destroying the country's rainforests and ...
US, Philippines to hold war games as China flexes muscles
(From AFP)
Thousands of US and Filipino soldiers will on Monday launch annual war games that this year are being seen as a show of strength ...
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Americans won’t be paid for being American any more: Spengler
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Donald Trump argues that America’s problem is that it has sent its wealth overseas. Exactly the opposite is the case: America’s problem is that the world’s wealth came to America, and bought subprime mortgages. At the peak of the housing… Read More ›
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Italy’s banks should scare Fed’s Janet Yellen even more
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“Given the risks to the outlook, I consider it appropriate for the [Federal Open Market] Committee to proceed cautiously in adjusting policy,” Fed Chair Janet Yellen told the Economic Club of New York Tuesday, citing slower growth in the US and China… Read More ›
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Ted Cruz: Our last, best hope: Spengler
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(From PJ Media) America needs something better than a feedback loop for popular resentment. We need a real leader. America’s elite is arrogant and corrupt, but the state of the American people is just as alarming. America had 90% adult literacy in 1790, when… Read More ›
Fashion, Lifestyle, Sports, Travel, Food, Tech
(From BBC)
The treatment of a South Korean contestant in the latest episode of TV show Asia's Next Top Model has sparked a backlash on social media. Kim Sang-in, 23, made a tearful apology to Subaru executive and guest judge Glenn Tan ... Read More
(from Bloomberg)
Tesla Motor Inc.'s first mass-production electric car, the Model 3, will be introduced on Thursday evening. But if you want one soon—and particularly if you want to have any hope of taking full advantage of government subsidies—you should probably get ... Read More
(From NBC Sports)
China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong beat slightly flawed Canadian and Russian gold medalist pairs in the World Championships short program in Boston.
Sui and Han, silver medalists at last year’s Worlds, landed side-by-side triple toe loops and a throw triple flip en route to ... Read More
With the goal of drawing 20 million inbound tourists annually by 2020 within reach four years ahead of schedule, the government announced Wednesday it will double the target to 40 million. The ambitious move came after the Japan National Tourism ... Read More
(From Engadget)
With its air purifiers, water purifiers, security sensors and other home appliances on the Chinese market, it's no secret that Xiaomi has an ambition to not only own the smartphone space, but to also litter its brand around our living ... Read More
India is striving hard to be the pioneer of electric vehicles. By 2030, all of India will drive EVs.
At a recent event organized by CII Young India, Piyush Goyal, Union minister of state for power, stated that India has the ... Read More