Dollar fades from two-week high tied to trade fears
- 14-Jul-2018
NEW YORK: The dollar dipped against a basket of currencies on Friday, fading from a two-week peak which was tied to news of a record Chinese trade surplus that may fuel US-China trade tensions and that briefly spurred safe-haven bids for the greenback. The dollar’s pullback likely stemmed from modest gains on Wall Street and […]
Special Report: How a two-week army crackdown reignited Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis
- 25-Apr-2017
BALUKHALI CAMP, BANGLADESH: When army helicopters fired on Rahim’s village in northwest Myanmar one day last November, the Rohingya schoolteacher told his pregnant wife to take their three young daughters and leave. He stayed behind with his 72-year-old mother. At dawn the next morning soldiers encircled and then entered the village. Rahim and his mother crept […]