Section: Channel NewsAsia (Singapore)
Teachers, doctors struggle on without pay in eastern Ukraine
With Kiev cutting off their salaries and pro-Moscow rebels struggling to set up their statelets, teachers and doctors in eastern Ukraine are left wondering where their next pay cheque will come from. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine PM calls for talks with Russia on ‘neutral territory’
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has invited Russia to hold serious negotiations on a neutral territory, after a build-up of Russian troops and artillery inside Ukraine and on the border. …read more Source: Channel...
Moscow hopes ties with EU have not crossed ‘point of no return’
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia hoped its ties with the EU had not yet crossed the point of no return after Brussels slapped more sanctions against Kremlin-backed separatists fighting Kiev. …read more Source: Channel...
EU poised for fresh Russia sanctions over Ukraine
European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels against a backdrop of fresh fighting in eastern Ukraine despite a September ceasefire between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia expels diplomats as EU set for new Ukraine sanctions
Russia expelled several Polish diplomats for spying, while in Brussels, EU foreign ministers met to discuss hitting Russia with fresh sanctions …read more Source: Channel...
Nine Ukrainian soldiers, police killed in east in last 24 hours
The three police officers were killed when they were shelled while out on patrol near Makarove in the Lugansk region. The six soldiers died in separate incidents. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia ‘will not prevail’ in Ukraine: Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the West was working hard towards a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, but was also committed to economic sanctions against Moscow. …read more Source: Channel...
MH17 wreckage removal starts in east Ukraine
A crew from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic – the pro-Moscow separatists who hold the territory – supervised by Dutch experts used metal saws to cut up the wreckage before it was lifted on to trucks at the remote crash site. …read more Source: Channel...
MH17 wreckage removal starts in rebel-held east Ukraine
Investigators from The Netherlands heading the probe into the downing, in which 193 Dutch citizens died, confirmed that they were overseeing the removal of the debris and said it could take “several days”. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin yawns off Western baiting at testy G20
A weary Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (Nov 16) shrugged off a new barrage of Western fire over Ukraine at a G20 summit where the world’s most powerful leaders vowed to heat up the cooling global economy. …read more Source: Channel...
