Few U.S. companies doing business in China view President Donald Trump's Phase 1 trade deal as being worth the cost of tariffs incurred over a two-year trade war, a new survey by the U.S.-China Business Council showed on Tuesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Top Glove is working rapidly to resolve this month issues that prompted a US Customs import ban, including improving its migrant workers' living conditions, its managing director said on Tuesday (Aug 11). In engagements with the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last ...
SINGAPORE: Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs Motegi Toshimitsu will make a three-day official visit to Singapore from Wednesday (Aug 12). He will call on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana and be hosted to lunch by Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, said ...
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has written to his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa to congratulate him on his election victory. In a letter dated Aug 11, Mr Lee said Singapore and Sri Lanka enjoy “warm and friendly relations, underpinned by longstanding economic and people-to ...
TAIPEI: COVID-19 might have been stamped out "easily" had it emerged in Taiwan or the United States instead of China, the US health secretary said on Tuesday (Aug 11) during a historic diplomatic trip to Taipei. Alex Azar's renewed criticism of China's handling of the pandemic is likely to ...
BEIJING: China's top legislature has decided to extend the mandate for the current group of Hong Kong lawmakers for a year from its expiry date of Sep 30, after a scheduled election was delayed, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday (Aug 11). The decision means Hong Kong's Legislative Council ...
A 35-year-old woman and her three children, aged between four and 11, were killed in western Nepal when heavy rains brought down their mud-and-stone house early on Tuesday, police said.