Section: Singapore
Australia says ready to approve uranium sales to Ukraine
Australia is set to approve sales of uranium to Ukraine under an agreement to be signed ahead of a nuclear security summit led by US President Barack Obama later this week.Australia has no nuclear industry of its own, but supplies about a tenth of the world’s uranium and has been steadily increasing the number of countries cleared to buy it...
Hopes fade of imminent deal to end Ukraine political crisis
Ukraine’s prospects of forming a new coalition – vital to get IMF loan talks back on track – were thrown into fresh doubt on Tuesday after Yulia Tymoshenko pressed demands as the price of taking her Fatherland Party into an alliance. …read more Source: Channel...
Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party won’t join Ukraine coalition unless conditions met
The head of Ukraine’ Fatherland Party, Yulia Tymoshenko, said on Tuesday that her party had up to 15 conditions that needed to be met before a coalition could be formed. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine parliament approves resignation of chief prosecutor
The Ukrainian parliament approved on Tuesday the resignation of General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, an official seen by the Ukraine’s Western backers as an obstacle to tackling corruption. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine General Prosecutor fires senior reformist prosecutor
Senior Ukrainian prosecutor and anti-corruption campaigner Davit Sakvarelidze has been fired by General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, Shokin’s deputy Vladyslav Kutsenko said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Head of Ukraine PM’s party says new coalition agreed
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s party has agreed with President Petro Poroshenko’s faction and the Fatherland party – all former coalition partners – to form a new alliance, the head of Yatseniuk’s People’s Front party, said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine PM frontrunner wants Slovakia’s Miklos as finance minister – report
The frontrunner to head a new Ukrainian government has asked Slovak politician Ivan Miklos to serve as his finance minister if he becomes prime minister, a Slovak daily said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Kremlin: No Russian troops in Ukraine’s Donbass, but there are Russian ‘citizens’ – RIA
There are no Russian troops in the Moscow-leaning Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, and there have never been, but there are Russian citizens who stand by local residents, RIA news agency quoted the Kremlin as saying on Saturday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine’s parliament speaker frontrunner to replace PM Yatseniuk
Ukraine’s parliamentary speaker emerged on Thursday as the frontrunner to replace the unpopular Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, signalling a breakthrough in a political crisis that has lasted months. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine coalition mulls replacing PM Yatseniuk with parliament speaker
Parties from Ukraine’s ruling coalition on Thursday discussed replacing Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk with Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Groysman, a possible breakthrough in a months-long political crisis. …read more Source: Channel...
