GENEVA (AFP) – Progress towards gender parity at work has barely budged for the past quarter century, and will only speed up once…
TAMBOPATA, PERU – Peru opened a military base in the Amazon on Tuesday in a bid to tackle illegal mining, the main culprit…
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan this week, Brunei’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Friday that…
HANOI – North Korea on Friday promised further negotiations with the US despite a spectacular failure to strike a nuclear deal at their…
WASHINGTON DC (AFP) – The fast-growing, Chinese-owned video sharing network TikTok agreed to pay a US$5.7 million fine to US authorities to settle…
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform WhatsApp announced Monday it was restricting how many times any given message can be forwarded…
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND (AFP) – The world’s 26 richest people now own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, Oxfam said Monday,…
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – The Malaysian state of Pahang announced it had a new sultan Saturday, who is expected to be elected king…
NEW YORK (AFP) – The announcement by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man, and his wife that they will divorce has…
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Malaysia’s king has abdicated, royal officials said Sunday, in a historic first for the country that ended weeks of speculation about…