Justin McCurry At the height of the Covid pandemic, the restaurateurs and shopkeepers of Tsukiji market in Tokyo must have dreamed of days like these. Columns of smartphone-wielding visitors shuffle along the narrow streets, pausing to inspect hand-forged kitchen knives and tsukemono pickles, and to sip gratis samples of green tea. Restaurants tempt the lunchtime […]
Read MoreMillions of dollars in sales of North Korean false eyelashes – marketed in beauty stores around the world as “made in China” – helped drive a recovery in the secretive state’s exports last year. The processing and packaging of North Korean false eyelashes – openly conducted in neighbouring China, the country’s largest trading partner – […]
Read MoreOil prices dipped on Monday in choppy trade as China’s ailing property sector sparked demand worries, while rising tensions over the weekend in the Middle East intensified oil supply concerns. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down62 cents to $82.93 a barrel by 1430 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1were down59 cents to […]
Read MoreIn a strategic move aimed at aligning with its impending graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026, Bangladesh has announced a comprehensive plan to curtail incentives across all export items. The central bank, in a circular issued today (30 January), clarified that the government has opted for a phased approach to gradually […]
Read MoreNorth Korea fired several cruise missiles into waters off its west coast on Tuesday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a string of weapons tests carried out by Pyongyang so far this year. South Korea’s military “detected several unknown cruise missiles launched into the West Sea of North Korea around 07:00 (2200 GMT)” Seoul’s Joint […]
Read MoreA Pakistan court handed former Prime Minister Imran Khan a 10-year jail term on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, the former premier’s media team said, his second conviction in recent months and just 10 days before the country’s general election. The case pertains to allegations that Khan had made public contents of a secret cable […]
Read MoreThree years after the military launched a coup, Myanmar’s ever deteriorating human rights crisis is now in freefall, with insufficient world attention paid to the misery and pain of its people, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Tuesday. “Amid all of the crises around the world, it is important no one […]
Read MoreEmbattled Chinese development company, Evergrande, has been ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court after an 18-month long hearing. Evergrande, which holds the ignominious title of the world’s most indebted property developer with about $300bn in liabilities, failed to convince the court that it had a viable restructuring plan, after having been given seven […]
Read MoreNorth Korea fired several cruise missiles on Sunday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state. The launch comes just days after Pyongyang fired multiple cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea, which it said was a first test of a new generation of strategic cruise missiles. Pyongyang has […]
Read MoreJapan said it is joining other countries in suspending funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees following Israeli charges that some UNRWA staff took part in Hamas’s October 7 attack. The agency has fired several staff over Israel’s accusations and promised a thorough investigation into the claims, which were not specified, while Israel has […]
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