Tokyo was spared by a typhoon that blasted parts of Japan with more than 200kmh winds on Saturday ( Aug 17 ), which allowed trains and some flights to resume. Tokyo and its surrounding regions had been on high alert on Friday for Typhoon Ampil’s strategy, with travel companies, outings,Continue Reading
In protest of the brutal rape and the death of a doctor in the eastern city of Kolkata, Indian medical professionals started a 24-hour shutdown of non-emergency services across the country on Saturday ( Aug 17 ). According to a statement from the Indian Medical Association ( IMA ), theContinue Reading
A physician who was a participant in the protests on Friday in New Delhi, Richa Garg, claimed she no longer felt secure at her place of employment. ” As a woman, it boils my heart. Our workplaces may be safer, she said, and the culprits of this offense should beContinue Reading
SELANGOR:  , Forty-one Palestinian civilians who suffered various injuries in the war in Gaza were flown to Malaysia on Friday ( Aug 16 ) for treatment, officials said. The lot Muslim country was reached by air travel from Egypt to the country’s capital, Cairo, using two Indonesian air force transportContinue Reading
For his State of the Nation address, Mr. Widodo bide goodnight and apologised to the people for the next day this quarter while wearing a black dress from the Betawi people, a group local to Jakarta.
He said during a 20-minute statement at the Women’s Consultative Assembly meet, a yearly custom before the Independence Day celebrations on August 17, that he understood that his accomplishments could hardly please everyone.
” I and ( Vice President ) Ma’ruf Amin apologise. I repent to every soul that may be disappointed, for every desire that may not have been realised, for every dream that may not have been achieved”, said Mr Widodo.
His past explanation,  , during a congregational meditation celebration on Aug 1, was labelled by detractors as a strategy to gain sympathy.
Mr. Widodo claimed he had no power to choose the political and vice-presidential applicants for the presidency and that he had put emphasis on stability of policies at next year’s State of the Nation address.  ,
Nevertheless, he introduced a number of programs that observers said favored the eventual winners of the national election, including evil president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka and defence minister Prabowo Subianto.
His actions were criticized as an effort to bolster his own social kingdom, particularly given that Mr. Gibran had been permitted to run through a contentious constitutional court decision.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Puan Maharani made obscene remarks before Mr. Widodo on Friday while speaking with him.
She claimed that the people who voted in this manner could not be held accountable.
” Was the poll completely, honest and fair? I leave it to you to solution… Were citizens capable to choose openly, honestly, quite, without force, control and fear”? she asked.
Tokyo, August 16: A “very powerful” typhoon slammed Japan’s Pacific coast with strong winds and heavy rainfall, causing the withdrawal of lots of flights and railways in the Tokyo region and causing over 2, 000 homes to be without power.
Located about 170km south of Tokyo, Typhoon Ampil was packing winds of up to 216kmh as it headed north, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Instead of making ashore, the typhoon’s eye traveled northeast along the Honshu coast, passing through the Tokyo region, which has a population of about 40 million, before returning to the Pacific on Saturday.
The climate system was described as “very strong,” one notch below what it referred to as as a “violent typhoon,” with peak wind speeds of 195 kilometers per hour.
The company warned people to be “on high alert for violent winds, coastal waves, floods, flooding in low-lying lands, and valley storms”.
According to a statement, the risk of severe rain-related disasters may raise through Friday evening in the Kanto region close to Tokyo and through Saturday day in the northern Tohoku region.
By 3am Saturday ( 1800 GMT Friday ), the US military’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center off the coast of the east of the capital’s coastal Chiba region, was able to forecast maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers per hour.
More than 18, 000 people were given instructions to leave Chiba district south of Tokyo, according to a speech from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Some 2, 000 communities in Tokyo’s neighbouring counties, generally Chiba, were without electricity as of Friday afternoon due to the storms, according to the energy controller.
The leader of the Malaysian Bar has issued a strong statement against some accidental professionals ‘ behavior for the second time in two weeks, warning that it will take legal action against those who have “breached the faith bestowed upon them by the public.”  ,
In a statement released on Friday ( Aug 16 ), Mr. Mohamad Ezri Abdul Wahab said,” We condemn such actions in the strongest and most unequivocal terms.” He made reference to the Malaysian Bar’s position against some of its members ‘ dishonest and fraudulent behavior.
The Malaysian Bar is a professional figure charged with overseeing the legal system in Malaysia.  ,
A total of 33 criminal breach of trust ( CBT ) cases involving attorneys were reported nationwide last year, according to Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID ) director Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf, who made the statement on August 13.  ,
These cases resulted in costs of over RM33 million ( US$ 7.4 million ).
Additionally, Mr. Ramli warned that there are likely to be more legal cases involving these offences, with losses totaling over RM20 million recorded so far this year.  ,
In 2022, 29 Psychotherapy cases involving attorneys were recorded equivalent to loss of RM13 million, Bernama reported.  ,
But, Mr. Ezri claimed in his speech from Friday that there appears to be an “alarming craze” that has unfairly diminished the importance of doctors in culture.  ,
The focus is now more on the misbehavior of a few, which, he said, “unfortunately casts a shadow on the whole profession,” rather than the major contributions that lawyers make to society.  ,
Mr. Ezri warned that lawyers across Malaysia are facing unprecedented challenges due to the current economic environment and the growing political pressures on the job.
” In addition, the rising need for savings and the weakening of legal services only add to the challenges that lawyers are currently facing.  ,
This pattern threatens the conservation of constitutional practices, especially smaller firms and only practitioners, and undermines the worth of the important job we do. Legitimate companies are not a product that can be bargained, they are important services that require specialised awareness, knowledge, and a commitment to fairness, “he said.  ,
According to records, Mr. Ezri noted that there were 33 cases that the police investigated last year, including 14 cases involving individuals who were n’t members of the Malaysian Bar, as well as eight cases in which the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board ( ASDB) had issued orders to its members.  ,
According to its site, the ASDB handles complaints of specialized misconduct filed by an advocate, attorney, student, or unusual attorney licensed under Section 40J of the Legal Profession Act of 1976.  ,
Mr. Ezri added that the Bar Council, which oversees the interests of the Malaysian Bar and performs its duties, has filed six police reports against those who use fake documents or defraude to carry out dishonest and deceptive business since 2023.
He also urged the general public to complain to the ASDB if they thought the lawyer and activist had engaged in misconduct.
Unscrupulous lawyers stow a shack in the legal system, and their inaction undermines the integrity of the many honorable and attentive members who uphold the highest standards of our profession, asserted Mr. Ezri.  ,
The Malaysian Bar has made a number of claims over the years expressing its concern for users ‘ dishonesty or fraudulent behavior.  ,
Two lawyers claimed they were being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission ( MACC ) in their capacity as lawyers for a building’s management committee in a strata management case, according to a report released by news website Free Malaysia Today in June.
Mr. Ezri had previously stated that while they were strong against unscrupulous practices and doctors ‘ dishonest behavior, he had also cautioned all enforcement systems, including the MACC, to regard lawful professional privilege and the right to legal representation.  ,
Mr. Ezri also disclosed to FMT that the Malaysian Bar had introduced Elevate, a fresh risk management tool, to address the issue of law firms stealing money from trust accounts.
The CCID producer, Mr. Ramli, was quoted by Bernama as saying in May that the government had received 22 studies of scenarios involving law firms, with losses totaling RM19 million.
After failing to move the property rights to the new consumer, authorities in Selangor had also arrested a prosecutor who had received RM2.7 million for the purchase of a plot of land in the city in November.
Pakistan’s health officials announced on Friday ( Aug 16 ) that this was their first case of the deadly mpox virus this year after the World Health Organization ( WHO ) declared a global emergency over its spread. ” The afflicted person has come from a Gulf state”, a MinistryContinue Reading
After a previous program with a similar topic ended its work earlier this year, the market was appreciative of how it was received. It first aired in May.
Seoul-based CReA Studio, which created both indicates, said it took a great chance bringing the concept to life.
” There were concerns that this ( concept ) could cause some backlash. But amazingly, people responded quite positively”, the film’s CEO Seo Hye-jin said.
She added that people found the two programs” sensational” because Japanese music have never before been aired on popular South Korean television.
South Korea’s free-to-air systems typically do not show Chinese information.
When South Korea was under Chinese colonization for 35 years, remains from more than a century.
Some North Korean singers who were invited to the music show first expressed concern because they lacked knowledge of how the general public would respond to their rendition of Japanese.
” I thought it would be great if I could, as a singer, take part in this historic moment, when we can sing songs and become one ( through music )”, said veteran South Korean singer Lyn.
Korean viewers were very open to it, even though we spoke a different language, and I do n’t believe they ever connected it to any agonizing historical events or other things.
Utagokoro Rie, a song from Japan and a member in the program, claimed she was unaware of the country’s troubled history before making her first actually trip to South Korea for the program.
” When I first appeared on the show and sang, I was n’t thinking about ( politics ) at all”, the 51-year-old told CNA.
” But after this present aired, I heard Koreans claim that I serve as a bridge between South Korea and Japan. When they said that to me, I felt a sense of duty.
Relations between Seoul and Tokyo quickly improved after Yoon Suk Yeol became leader of South Korea in 2022.
He and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resumed making mutual visits as the two nations ‘ officials, a discipline that had been discontinued since 2011;
Both leaders want to strengthen security assistance, working with frequent allies, including the United States, to better manage North Korea’s nuclear threats.
SEOUL: South Korea’s capital broke a century-old weather record with the 26th so-called tropical night in a row- when the temperature stays above 25 degrees Celsius, according to official data released on Friday ( Aug 16 ). The temperature is constantly recording around 25 degrees Fahrenheit or higher because theContinue Reading