A spell of grim aura for Singapore’s ruling party
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: Will the House of Lee stay unscathed after the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) was rocked by a series of political peccadilloes, including corruption charges against a minister? The political edifice that Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, built on a rock-solid foundation […]
Are Malaysians waiting for a fresh hope?
By a contributor Kuala Lumpur: Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in accepting the fact that Malaysians were unhappy with the current state of affairs of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government that he leads has certainly breathed fresh hope that things will change for the better before the next general election. The people have given the PH […]
Gov’t to limit operation of coal power plants to curb fine dust pollution
South Korea’s industry ministry said Wednesday it will regulate the operation of coal power plants to reduce emissions of fine dust as the country faced its worst level of pollution in recent days. The Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy said it will move to have 60 coal power plants scale down their operations […]
Gov’t to step up countermeasures against fine dust pollution
South Korea is moving to designate fine dust concentrations as a disaster in law, part of its countermeasures to the nation’s worsening air pollution problem, officials said Tuesday. If fine dust pollution is legally recognized as a disaster, the government will work out concrete criteria for damage assessment and support measures, the officials informed of […]
Crisis of the Government and Naming of Ministers
Some sources warned the forces that the delay in forming the government reflected negatively on Lebanon and all Lebanese. “But what happens is otherwise, where the sticks are put in the wheels of the president-designate’s movement for a simple reason, because he wants to form a balanced government and reflect what the ballot boxes have […]
Anti-corruption uprising: Korea and Pakistan on same path
Pakistan is perhaps one of the few countries where the media – print as well as electronic, allocate much space to the developments taking place around the world – be it US presidential elections, American policies, ongoing wars in the Middle East, mass migration of people, natural disasters, tug of war among the big powers […]
President Park replaces five ministers
President Park Geun-hye nominated five new Cabinet minister candidates Monday to replace incumbents who are expected to step down in order to run in the general election scheduled for April 13. Rep. Yoo Il-ho of the ruling Saenuri Party was nominated to be finance minister and Seoul National University professor Lee Joon-sik was named to […]
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