KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor amassed hundreds of expensive Hermes Birkin handbags and diamond jewellery when her husband Najib Razak was Malaysia’s prime minister. Now, Rosmah faces the prospect of joining him in jail for corruption after the Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced her to 10 years in prison and aContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor, the former first lady of Malaysia, amassed hundreds of expensive Hermes Birkin handbags and diamond jewellery when her husband Najib Razak was prime minister. Now, Rosmah faces the prospect of joining him in jail for corruption after the Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced her to 10Continue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court extended interim bail on Thursday (Sep 1) for former prime minister Imran Khan in a case surrounding comments he made about a judge involved in the detention of an official in his party. The extension comes a day after a lower court gave him a weekContinue Reading
Beijing hit back hard against the report – over a year in the making – and maintained its firm opposition to its release, sharing an over-100-page document from the Xinjiang provincial government defending its policies in the region. “The so-called critical report you mentioned is planned and manufactured firsthand byContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has found Rosmah Mansor, wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, guilty of three charges of corruption linked to a RM1.25 billion solar energy project in Sarawak. In handing down the verdict on Thursday (Sep 1), the court sentenced Rosmah to 10 years in jail andContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s consumer price index (CPI) surged to a multi-decade high of 27.3 per cent in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday (Sep 1), as authorities warn massive flooding in the country could exacerbate already skyrocketing prices. Price rises in staples, including vegetables, wheat and cookingContinue Reading
Most of the curbs are intended to last for a few days for now, although two provincial cities in northern China have extended curbs slightly beyond initial promises. Non-essential sector employees in Chengdu were asked to work from home, and residents were urged not to leave the city unless needed.Continue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s military shot down an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet just off the Chinese coast on Thursday (Sep 1), after the government vowed to take tough new measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions. Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own againstContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, was found guilty of corruption on Thursday (Sep 1). Rosmah, 70, was charged with soliciting RM187.5 million (US$41.9 million) in bribes from contractor Saidi Abang Samsudin in 2016 and 2017 so that his company Jepak Holdings couldContinue Reading
COLOMBO: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about US$2.9 billion, the international lender said in a statement on Thursday (Sep 1). “The objectives of Sri Lanka’s new Fund-supported programme are to restore macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability,” theContinue Reading