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He has the beard, the hat, and the tummy, but one thing Santa can't manage many of this year is presents, though there is the odd bag of food to give out. Basic goods are scarce in Venezuela.
President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered the closure of Venezuela’s border with Colombia for 72 hours in a crackdown on what he says are “mafias” smuggling hard-to-find cash that is destabilising the socialist economy.
India on Thursday (Nov 24) stopped the over-the-counter exchange of old bills as the government faced growing criticism of its shock move to withdraw all high-denomination banknotes in a bid to tackle widespread corruption and tax evasion.
Myanmar parliament's second session including the two Houses' will reconvene on July 25 , nearly a month after its first session adjourned on June 10, according to an announcement of the parliament published Monday.
China's first domestic violence law, to take effect on March 1, was adopted after two hearings, instead of the ordinary three, an example of the changing rhythm and style of the current legislature.
The enactment of Japan's controversial security bills on Saturday marked an overhaul of the country's purely defensive defense posture and has buried a seed of disaster for both Japan and other countries in the region.
A special committee under the upper house of the Japanese national Diet passed controversial government-backed security-related bills amid chaos in the chamber.
Japan's opposition lawmakers on Thursday succeeded in delaying a vote on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 's plans to see controversial security legislation enacted which will allow the scope of the nation's Self Defense-Forces to be expanded globally in the biggest post-war shift seen in 70 years.
A latest poll result showed that the approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has declined to 36 percent, the lowest level since he took office in December 2012, local media reported on Tuesday.
As more than 120,000 people have surrounded Japan's national Diet building and protested at 300 other locations nationwide demanding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation and retraction of the controversial security bills, maybe it is time for the country's ruling bloc to carefully listen to the public.
Mass protests across Japan this weekend have delivered a clear and direct message to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his plans to normalize Japan's military by way of unconstitutional legislation rammed through parliament are thoroughly and vehemently rejected by the public here, including growing numbers of youngsters, with political experts stating that the current trajectory of the prime minister and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, could lead to its eventual downfall.
Some 120,000 people rallied and surrounded Japan's parliament building here on Sunday, demanding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rescind the controversial security bills.
Residents of Hiroshima, the city that suffered U.S. atomic bombing in 1945 during the World War II, held a series of memorial activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing on Thursday, calling for peace to be preserved and tragedy never repeated.
Greece managed to raise 813 million euros (1.27 billion U.S. dollars) from a new auction of six-month treasury bills on Wednesday, the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced.
The upper house of Japan's bicameral Diet has discussed a series of unpopular security-related bills from Monday, but unlike similar debates in the lower house, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his fellow ministers, as well as lawmakers from Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), directly pointed to and chided China as posing a threat to Japan's national security.
The upper house of Japan's bicameral Diet has discussed a series of unpopular security-related bills from Monday, but unlike similar debates in the lower house, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his fellow ministers, as well as lawmakers from Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), directly pointed to and chided China as posing a threat to Japan's national security.
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