by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2021 U.S. covid czar Anthony Fauci said on June 3: “If you have a very high percentage of people vaccinated, you’re not going to see a substantial blip” as in a big uptick in covid infections. Great Britain apparently didn’t get the memo. In the UK, 86 percent of all […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 5, 2020 The United State was successful in preventing a Chinese official from being named director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A Singaporean official defeated a candidate from China in a leadership contest for the UN’s intellectual property body, which was swept into a rift between Washington and Beijing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2019 Singapore is the only nation in Southeast Asia with a majority ethnic Chinese population. The island city-state is also a global financial center and plays a large role in regional diplomacy. So it should come as no surprise that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long had Singapore in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The road from Singapore becomes a longer process as substance and specifics must follow the highly stylistic Summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un. Nonetheless given the state of U.S./North Korean relations just six moths ago, the historic meeting between an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Donald Kirk SINGAPORE — The summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un wound up in a victory of style and image over real substance. Trump, hours after his historic meeting with Kim, defended the vague final declaration in a show of bluff and bluster in which he sought to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un a 4-minute video which featured “what could happen” in North Korea. The visual presentation impressed Kim, Trump said following the summit in Singapore on June 12. The emphasis on personal chemistry and public perception on a global scale was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived in Singapore amid tight security at 2:36 p.m. on June 10 – on an Air China Boeing 747. According to Flightradar24, an Air China plane arrived in Pyongyang at 6:20 a.m. on June 10 and departed for Beijing two hours later. “But the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 Summit fever has hit Singapore’s eateries. Restaurants are cooking up summit-themed fare to capitalize on the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on June 12. At Royal Plaza on Scotts, a five-star hotel restaurant, patrons can order the grilled Trump-Kim Burger, The […]
Special to WorldTribune , December 21, 2017 Yes: 128 No: 9 Abstain: 35 Y AFGHANISTAN Y DOMINICA Y LITHUANIA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Y ALBANIA A DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Y LUXEMBOURG Y SAUDI ARABIA Y ALGERIA Y ECUADOR Y MADAGASCAR Y SENEGAL Y ANDORRA Y EGYPT A MALAWI Y SERBIA Y ANGOLA EL SALVADOR Y MALAYSIA […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 There are no indications that electronic systems on the USS John McCain were hacked in a cyberattack, but “all possibilities” will be considered in a review of the Aug. 20 incident, the U.S. chief of naval operations said. It was the second deadly collision at sea of its kind […]