NEW DELHI: The Indian railways minister claimed on Monday ( Mar 4 ) that the train’s drivers were distracted while they were watching cricket on a phone and missed a signal and crashed into another train, killing 14 people. As visitors India played England during the one-day World Cup, theContinue Reading
Yingluck Shinawatra, a self-exiled former prime minister, was cleared of negligence by Thailand’s Supreme Court on Monday ( Mar 4), according to her lawyer and the local media in a case that dates back to when she was in office in 2013. Yingluck, a well-known part of the powerful ShinawatraContinue Reading
PERSPECTIVE ON ECONOMY However, Lou on Monday delivered a positive message, claiming that Beijing’s leaders had “ample self-confidence” that the economy may rise. He resisted that” China has more favorable circumstances than problems in its financial development.” ” The main pattern of a rise in the economy and long-term growthContinue Reading
There has n’t been much of either side backing down so far. The Korean Medical Association ( KMA ), which represents private practitioners, organized a mass rally of thousands of South Korean doctors on Sunday that defied official requests for the trainee doctors to return to work. The Korean government’sContinue Reading
The fate of at least four of the 205 “full” members of the Central Committee’s jobs hangs in the balance as a result of the two officials ‘ replacements, as well as former members of the PLA Rocket Force, commander, Li Yuchao, and political commander Xu Zhongbo. Beijing did notContinue Reading
According to the conservationists ‘ report, The Mekong’s Forgotten Fishes, about 19 % of the 1, 148 or more fish species in the Mekong are on the verge of extinction, with some saying that the figure may be higher because too little information is available about 38 percent of theContinue Reading
The deadline for Dr. Mahathir’s two children to make the pronouncements is later this month.
While Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration’s anti-graft assault on high-profile individuals has attracted a lot of media attention, MACC officials and attorneys cautioned that organization corruption charges are unlikely to be filed anytime soon.
” There will be a lot of to ing and fro ing in cases like this,” said one lawyer involved in the ongoing anti-graft crackdown, who declined to be identified.” It is a lengthy and cumbersome process for both the accused and the ( MACC ) investigators.
The continued anti-graft strategy is expected to splutter the public’s interest and lift the lid on the contentious business bailouts carried out during the regional economic crisis in the late 1990s, which had caused severe conflict between Dr. Mahathir and Mr. Anwar, who at the period was his No. 2.
Mr. Anwar, who was the government’s finance minister at the time, favored a more free-market approach to deal with the government’s economic woes and advocated a plan of high interest rates to bring international funds to prop up the Malay currency, the ringgit, which had quickly fallen in value.  ,
However, high interest rates slowed down economic activity and, more important, put a direct risk to Dr. Mahathir’s economic unit as a result of how difficult it was for the well-connected political business groups to pay their debts and finance big-ticket infrastructure projects.  ,
The first of a number of contentious commercial agreements that sowed the seeds for the Mahathir- Anwar plan face-off that eventually morphed into a full-blown social conflict that still rages today was the loan by state oil company Petronas of Mr. Mirzan’s Konsortium Perkapalan.
Dr. Mahathir alleged that the continuous MACC investigation, which stems from revelations in the Pandora Papers, was careful while posting on social media in recent months. The Pandora Papers are documents that were leaked that revealed world leaders ‘ wealth and other powerful individuals ‘ offshore tax have ns.
He listed a number of other people in the leaked records, including Investment, Trade, and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who were cited in the papers but are not the subject of any public scrutiny.
Instead, Mirzan ( Mirzan ) was threatened that he would be imprisoned for five years if he does not take any actions that the prosecution deems to be contrary to the allegations made against him. In a post on X, previously known as Twitter, Dr. Mahathir said,” There was no mention that he will be brought to court.”
Mr. Anwar has accused his former manager of enriching his home and close business partners by awarding them attractive government contracts, accusing him of being sued by Dr. Mahathir for libel.
Despite his objections to the offer, the premiership has insisted in his responses to the libel suit that Dr. Mahathir had abused his status as leading to order Petronas to acquire Mr. Mirzan’s delivery assets.  ,
Shehbaz Sharif was elected as Pakistan’s prime minister on Sunday ( Mar 3 ) for the second time, presiding over a fragile alliance that has outlawed supporters of Imran Khan, the jailed opposition leader. Three days after federal elections were marred by common claims of rigging, just sworn-in Pakistani lawmakersContinue Reading
Malaysia Airlines passengers ‘ families, who had mysteriously vanished ten years ago, pushed for a new search on Sunday ( Mar 3 ) because they described enduring grief and the struggle to find closure. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 plane carrying 239 individuals, vanished from radar on March 8, 2014,Continue Reading
According to local media reports, three men were detained on Saturday ( Mar 2 ) after the gang rape of a Spanish tourist on a motorbike ride through India’s remote east with her husband. The pair had stopped for the evening in a tent the night before the attack, whichContinue Reading