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CHONGQING: Duan Yi, 30, who was a homemaker for four years after giving birth, recently found a job at a flexible employment fair in Chongqing.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program.
A reduction in the national debt from various measures, including the fuel subsidy rationalisation, could see various effects on the economy in the longer term.
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): The government has imposed the penalties on illegal foreign workers and businesses operators in a bid to regulate the issue and ensure that expatriates in Laos comply with the law.
HANOI: The state budget’s revenues from export-import activities hit over 152.94 trillion dong (RM30bil) in the first five months of this year, making up 36% of the estimate, down 18% year on year, according to the the General Department of Vietnam Customs (GDVC).
Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing a game of food blackmail. The West can’t let him win.
SEOUL (Bloomberg): The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader issued a fresh warning to the US and South Korea, threatening them with severe consequences if they went ahead with joint military drills set to start next week.
SEOUL (Bloomberg): The US, South Korea and Japan started joint naval drills off the Korean Peninsula in a move certain to anger North Korea, which fired its first missile over Japan in five years when similar exercises were held in 2022.
A Chinese cargo spacecraft that serviced the country's permanent orbiting space station has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere, amid separate concerns over China's decision to allow a massive booster rocket to fall to Earth uncontrolled.
SEOUL: North Korea says it has found four new fever cases in its border region with China that may have been caused by coronavirus infections, two weeks after leader Kim Jong-un declared a widely disputed victory over Covid-19.
LONDON (Reuters) - Comparing himself to a booster rocket that had fulfilled its mission, Boris Johnson said farewell to his Downing Street residence and office on Tuesday and described his future plans as a return to a quieter life.
EVEN before the Covid-19 crisis, a survey by the QS Intelligence Unit suggested that students see employment prospects as the most important benefit of attending an internationally-recognised university, far ahead of other benefits such as quality of education or the student experience.
Apollo 16 being spruced up to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the spacecraft's April 1972 flight
Hundreds of buildings, including houses, places of worships and community health centers (Puskesmas), were damaged in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the western parts of Java Island on Friday (Jan 14).
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN) The Foreign Ministry has said the German embassy staffer who allegedly visited the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) headquarters in Petamburan, Central Jakarta, is unwelcome in Indonesia after he left the country soon after a picture of the purported visit made the rounds on social media last week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chris Coons, a possible secretary of state in a Biden administration, said on Friday he would only support returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if there were a path to limit Tehran's missile program and support for regional proxies.
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout promises good opportunities for those looking for work. But experts say more needs to be done for workers over 45 affected by Covid-19 job losses, especially those within the B40 group who face a challenge re-entering the workforce.
While the youth are most affected by Covid-19 job losses, retrenched workers aged 45 and above within the B40 group are also facing exceptional challenges remaining in and re-entering the workforce.
KOTA KINABALU: A man spent part of the first day of Chinese New Year on the roof of a commercial building to escape policemen who raided a gambling den in the Bundusan area near here.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit but drawing U.S. criticism over lack of transparency.
