As flat prices soar in Hong Kong, investors park money down in the lot
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Esther Fan’s nest egg is tucked away in an old residential complex on the outskirts of Hong Kong – two parking spaces in a dimly-lit lot alongside dozens of luxury cars and a Mini Cooper with fake eyelashes on its headlights.
Election over, new Malaysia PM gets down to business
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad held a meeting of top alliance partners on Friday as he got down to the business of forming a government that, for the first time in the country’s history, will not be from the Barisan …
Memories of hunger cloud North Korean refugee’s hopes for Trump-Kim summit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walking through the Korean War Memorial in Washington, Grace Jo remembers a pivotal point in her childhood in North Korea, what she calls “the almost dying moment.”
Trump seeks ‘very meaningful’ summit in Singapore with North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by fre…
Mexican mothers mark their day pining for missing children
CHILAPA DE ALVAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Three years ago, Julieta Guzman kissed her only son on the forehead as he headed over to his girlfriend’s house, just a few blocks away in the town of Chilapa, where drug gangs fighting over heroin production have…
Trumps seeks ‘very meaningful’ summit in Singapore with North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by fre…
Rival Venezuela opposition candidates vow to stay in race, splitting vote
CARACAS (Reuters) – Evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci on Thursday ignored calls to withdraw from Venezuela’s presidential election in order to back a more prominent candidate, splitting Venezuela’s already fractured opposition.
Catalan ex-head proposes new candidate for regional leader
MADRID (Reuters) – Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday proposed member of parliament Quim Torra as candidate for head of the Catalan government as the region attempts to put an end to a seven-month impasse and form an administration.
Singapore will host U.S.-North Korea summit, nuclear issue to dominate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet for the first time when President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit on June 12 in Singapore where the U.S. side will try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear…
Singapore will host U.S.-North Korea summit, nuclear issue to dominate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet for the first time when President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit on June 12 in Singapore where the U.S. side will try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear…
