A NEW year always gives hope for better things.... In the process of fulfilling IMF conditions so

Council.... " He lied, lied and lied," said Maryam, a 51-year-old Iraqi writer and mother of two in

Synopsis: The Straits Times chats with ST’s global correspondents about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises. Chongqing bears a grim wartime history.... As China’s wartime capital which Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang government decamped to in 1937, it was heavily bombed during the Second Sino-Japanese war.... Bunkers-some 16, 000-were built into the city’s hills and mountains, sheltering terrified residents as the bombs rained down. Some eight decades on, the Chon

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc came out victorious in his country's latest elections to the upper house of parliament. This win will give him a chance to test his economic revival programme, known as “abeconomics,” and to advance the dialogue begun with Russian authorities in Apri

to work together with their local governments in their bids for EU membership." Once the conditions

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday in Davos the Chinese economy was open for business and

At the Valdai forum in 2019 Vladimir Putin officially confirmed that Moscow is helping China develop a missile attack warning system that only Russia and the United States have at this point. This new level of Russian-Chinese military cooperation will have important implications.

Rescuers working in subzero conditions and bracing winds searched the rubble on Wednesday after a

Claire Li's babies suffered with Edwards’ syndrome – a rare but life limiting condition affecting

aware of the situation". Gen Li's last public appearance was three weeks ago-on 29 August-in Beijing