Bloomberg President Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory over China-friendly opposition challenger Han Kuo-yu to clinch a second term in Taiwan’s presidential election, dealing a blow to Beijing, which has long sought to bring the democratically run island under its control. Han conceded defeat just before 9 pm at his headquarters in the southern city of Kaohsiung. Tsai had a ...

Bloomberg North Korea won’t rely on the personal relationship between its leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump as it doesn’t intend to trade its nuclear weapons for a lift of sanctions, its state-run media said, citing a foreign ministry adviser. “There will never be such negotiations as that in Vietnam, in which we proposed exchanging a core nuclear ...

Bloomberg Raghuram Rajan, former head of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and an outspoken critic of several of prime minister Narendra Modi’s economic and social policies, said student-led protests in the country show that the ideals of the secular nation are still valued by the youth. “It is they, who never marched to win freedom, but today march to ...