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Huawei prepares for 40%-60% fall in international smartphone shipments

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is preparing for a 40% to 60% decline in international smartphone shipments, Bloomberg reports.
17 June 2019, 04:51 AM

Hong Kong police clear streets as protesters move to park

Protesters clear out of Hong Kong’s streets, averting possible clashes with police, but stay near government headquarters to press their demands that the city’s leader resign and abandon an extradition bill that stoked fears of Beijing’s expanding control.
17 June 2019, 04:22 AM

Protests choke HK

Hundreds of thousands of protesters choked Hong Kong’s streets yesterday in a defiant rebuke of a reviled extradition law, piling pressure on the city’s embattled pro-Beijing leader despite a weekend climbdown.
16 June 2019, 18:00 PM

Massive demonstration chokes Hong Kong as extradition anger boils

Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in central Hong Kong against a reviled extradition law, the latest huge demonstration to pile pressure on the city's embattled leader, despite her weekend climbdown.
16 June 2019, 11:24 AM

Middle East attack jolts oil-import dependent Asia

The blasts detonated far from the bustling megacities of Asia, but the attack this week on two tankers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz hits at the heart of the region’s oil import-dependent economies.
15 June 2019, 05:00 AM

Hong Kong leader suspends controversial extradition bill after protests

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has delayed indefinitely a proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after widespread anger over the bill sparked violent protests in the Asian finance hub.
15 June 2019, 04:20 AM

Hong Kongers alarmed by Google translation gaffe

Hong Kong social media has lit up when protesters noticed Google's translation software was briefly churning out a rather odd suggestion during a week that has seen the worst political violence to hit the city in decades.
14 June 2019, 06:38 AM

No talks with Pakistan till it stops exporting terror: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes it clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping that there was no question of India resuming dialogue with Pakistan until Islamabad created an atmosphere free of terrorism in the region.
14 June 2019, 05:48 AM

Protesters scuffle with Hong Kong police

Scuffles breaks out between protesters and police in Hong Kong as hundreds of people remained on the streets to protest a planned extradition law with mainland China, a day after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators.
13 June 2019, 06:31 AM

Hong Kong police fire rubber bullets as protests turn to violent chaos

Hong Kong police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who threw plastic bottles as protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial turned to violent chaos.
12 June 2019, 04:46 AM

Debris of missing IAF’s aircraft found

The wreckage of an Indian Air Force transport aircraft, which went missing eight days ago with 13 people on board, is found in Arunachal Pradesh, official sources said.
11 June 2019, 12:18 PM

Indian court jails 3 Hindu men for life

An Indian court yesterday sentenced three Hindu men, including a police officer, to life imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and
10 June 2019, 18:00 PM

Swedish police shoot man at train station

Police in the southern Swedish city of Malmo yesterday shot a man at the central train station who claimed to have a bomb, police and
10 June 2019, 18:00 PM

Centre, BJP trying to incite violence in Bengal: Mamata

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged yesterday that the Centre and the cadres of the ruling BJP were trying to incite
10 June 2019, 18:00 PM

India to buy US missile system to shield Delhi

India is swiftly moving ahead to acquire the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System-II (NASAMS-II) from the US, which will be
10 June 2019, 18:00 PM

Foreign workers generally satisfied with working conditions in Singapore: MOM survey

Foreign workers in Singapore are generally satisfied with their working conditions, according to a survey commissioned by the country's Ministry of Manpower, and would recommend the country as a place to work to their friends and relatives.
10 June 2019, 04:41 AM

Thousands protest China extradition bill in Hong Kong

Several hundred thousand people have jammed Hong Kong's streets in a last bid to thwart a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to China to face trial, with police bracing for the biggest march in the city in 15 years.
9 June 2019, 11:04 AM

Philippines slams ‘unpardonable intrusions’ by UN rights experts

The Philippine government has attacked United Nations human rights experts for "unpardonable intrusions", after a call for an international investigation into killings linked to President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
8 June 2019, 13:18 PM

‘No sense of cleanliness’: Donald Trump blames India, China for climate change

US President Donald Trump blames big economies India, China and Russia for climate change stating that these countries do not have any sense of cleanliness and pollution.
6 June 2019, 07:42 AM

Bodies found in search for climbers in India

A helicopter searching for eight climbers including seven foreigners missing on India’s second-highest peak spotted bodies yesterday, a
3 June 2019, 18:00 PM