The landmark summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held at Singapore’s Capella Hotel on the island resort of Sentosa, off the city state’s southern tip, the White House has confirmed.
Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed the venue on Twitter on Tuesday, writing: “The venue for the Singapore summit between @POTUS and Leader Kim Jong Un will be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island. We thank our great Singaporean…
Malaysia to probe US$2 billion in payments made to Chinese pipeline firm under ousted ruler Najib Razak
Malaysia’s finance minister on Tuesday announced plans to report to the anti-graft agency upfront payments of billions of ringgit the previous administration made to a Chinese firm for two pipeline projects that have barely begun.
Since taking office two weeks ago, Lim Guan Eng has been driving a campaign to expose financial scandals in the administration of former prime minister Najib Razak, unseated in a stunning election defeat last month.
Lim said Najib’s government had paid 8….
White House says Trump, Kim to meet at 9am Singapore time on June 12
Preparations for a summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are going well, and the two are tentatively scheduled to meet at 9am Singapore time on June 12, the White House said on Monday.
The announcement of the timing for the first meeting between the two leaders came just three days after Trump hosted a North Korean delegation at the White House bearing a letter from Kim.
Trump, who had earlier cancelled the summit meeting, abruptly announced that…
EDPB outlines how businesses should approach data transfers
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Trump-Kim summit venue: Singapore tightens security near Shangri-La Hotel as rumours swirl
Singapore has moved to declare its leafy diplomatic district near the popular Orchard Road shopping belt a “special event area”, fuelling speculation that the landmark summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will take place at the Shangri-La Hotel. The announcement in the government gazette came as diplomatic sources told This Week In Asia on Monday that Pyongyang was insistent that the June 12 event could not be held in an American or European…
North Korea removes its top three military officials ahead of Trump-Kim meeting
North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said on Sunday, as US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un prepare to meet on June 12 in Singapore.
The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was commenting on a report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency that all three of the North’s top military officials were believed to have been replaced.
Kim, the economy and what really brought North Korea…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologises to Kuwait for ‘harsh words’ over murdered maid
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised to Kuwait on Sunday for his “harsh” words at the height of a months-long diplomatic row over the treatment of domestic workers.
The spat began in February when a murdered Filipina maid was found in her employer’s freezer in the Gulf state, prompting Duterte to lash out at the “inhuman” treatment of migrant workers and ban workers from travelling to Kuwait.
“For the first time I would say that I was harsh in my…
Two Vietnamese tourists fatally stabbed in Las Vegas hotel room, police say
Police say two Vietnamese tourists were found fatally stabbed in a Las Vegas Strip hotel room and that the deaths were a double homicide.
The identities of the man and woman found dead Friday in a room at Circus Circus were not released.
Police lieutenant Ray Spencer says both victims were stabbed multiple times and that police had not made an immediate arrest.
He said the victims were in a tour group that arrived Thursday night in Las Vegas before heading on a trip to the Grand Canyon Friday….
‘This is development’: Cambodia’s electricity push leaves the dead swimming in their graves and the living begging for land
Nat Sota’s ancestors have been lying in watery graves since Cambodia’s newest hydroelectric dam flooded her village of Srekor, and with it, the nearby burial ground.
“We don’t know whether they can swim or not,” she said, sitting under a wooden house near the dam’s reservoir.
Nat Sota has earthly concerns too. Only the roof of the village primary school is now visible above the water and she worries for if her two young grandchildren will get an education….
South Koreans are beginning to like Trump and Kim Jong-un more despite chaos and confusion, says poll
It has been a topsy-turvy week on the Korean Peninsula thanks to the on-again, off-again historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
But despite the tumultuous week, South Koreans remain hopeful that a summit between the two will be successful – and as of this week both are enjoying their highest approval ratings ever in South Korea, according to a new Gallup Korea poll released Friday.
North Korean talks are back on, Trump says
Trump last week…