Latest

Asian investors step up selling as rate hikes loom
Asian investors step up selling as rate hikes loom
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Investors further unloaded equities in Asia on Thursday as they girded themselves for more interest rate hikes aimed at quelling runaway inflation, with some analysts warning that markets could retest the lows touched in June. The hawkish remarks out of the Fed have dealt a hefty blow to a rally in markets from their June lows.

Cambodian opposition figure faces French defamation trial
Cambodian opposition figure faces French defamation trial
World
by  AFP

Longstanding Cambodian opposition figure Sam Rainsy will face a French court on Thursday in defamation cases brought against him by top officials in his home country. Dy Vichea has brought a second case against Rainsy over a separate 2019 Facebook post, which will also be heard on Thursday.

Five things on Brazil's voting machines
Five things on Brazil's voting machines
World
by  AFP

Brazil has used electronic voting machines in its elections since 1996. With help from the military, computer experts developed the country's first electronic voting machine, rolled out in 57 cities for the 1996 local elections.

UN report lists litany of rights abuses in China's Xinjiang
UN report lists litany of rights abuses in China's Xinjiang
World
by  AFP

The United Nations released a bombshell report late Wednesday into serious human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region, saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity. - Torture allegations 'credible' - China has been accused for years of detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslims in the region.

Gorbachev and Reagan: a friendship that ended the Cold War
Gorbachev and Reagan: a friendship that ended the Cold War
World
by  AFP

Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 -- a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan. Then he just got out of his limousine and began shaking hands," she recalled.