Section: Singapore
Dutch voters snub EU-Kiev pact, but exit polls cast doubt on turnout
Dutch voters on Wednesday rejected a key EU pact with Ukraine in a referendum seen as a barometer of anti-EU feeling, but low turnout cast doubts on whether the ballot was valid, exit polls showed. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine adds Russian oil import ban to growing trade war
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Wednesday he intended to introduce a ban on oil product imports from petro-giant Russia as part of Kiev’s festering trade war with Moscow. …read more Source: Channel...
In Chernobyl nuclear zone, animals thrive without humans
What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine provide a clue. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch referendum turnout lagging below validity threshold – pollster
Turnout in a referendum on the Ukraine-EU treaty being held in the Netherlands is lagging below the threshold needed for it to be valid, according to a prominent pollster. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch Ukraine vote tests strength of anti-EU mood
Dutch voters cast ballots in a national referendum on Wednesday on the European Union’s treaty with Ukraine, providing a gauge of anti-EU sentiment weeks before Britain puts its membership of the bloc on the line. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch vote on key EU-Kiev pact as Europe watches
The Dutch began voting Wednesday on whether to back a key EU pact with Ukraine in a referendum triggered by grassroots eurosceptic groups and seen as a yardstick on ties with Brussels. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch cast votes on Ukraine treaty in test of anti-EU sentiment
Dutch voters began casting ballots in a national referendum on Wednesday on the European Union’s treaty with Ukraine – a test of anti-EU sentiment before Britain vote on its membership of the bloc in June. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch referendum on Ukraine treaty will test anti-EU sentiment
A Dutch national referendum on Wednesday on economic and political ties with Ukraine is turning into a test of anti-EU sentiment before June’s Brexit vote. …read more Source: Channel...
UK’s Farage says Dutch “No” would boost Brexit support
[LONDON] The leader of Britain’s UK Independence Party said on Monday that a Dutch vote against an EU treaty with Ukraine would give a boost to the Brexit camp less than three months from a British referendum on quitting the 28-nation bloc. …read more Source: The Business...
Iceland gets the first jolt from Panama leak: Bloomberg View
[LONDON] The biggest data dump in the history of investigative journalism, the so-called Panama Papers, is having serious political consequences in one of the world’s smallest countries. The leaders of Russia, China, Ukraine and other large nations will survive the exposure of their sometimes tenuous links to offshore accounts, but the...
