The Pheu Thai Party on Wednesday said it would welcome back with open arms the Sam Mitr faction if it defects from the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), the ruling party, ahead of the general election.Continue Reading
Overdevelopment, deforestation and dumping of trash in rivers may also have led to the massive floods across Johor.
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Ten years ago, when China’s leader first took power, Xi Jinping pledged to let market forces play a “decisive” role in economic policy and financial regulation. At the time, and since, foreign investors assumed that meant the government would set the private sector free. Yet a decade on, Xi is now making an argument few […]Continue Reading
MANILA: The Philippines’ agriculture department on Wednesday (Mar 8) confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in central Cebu province, and has deployed response teams to detect the extent of infection. The department’s Bureau of Animal Industry said 58 out of 149 blood samples from Carcar City in Cebu testedContinue Reading
As of Wednesday (Mar 8), more than 600 people have registered online to secure an early-bird discount.Continue Reading
Young Chinese women visiting the country have taken to dressing up in Thai school uniforms, and the Ministry of Education is less than thrilled by their fashion statements.Continue Reading
BEIJING: Chinese schoolchildren are turning to AI bot ChatGPT to slash their homework time – vaulting the country’s “Great Firewall” to write book reports and bone up on their language skills. With its ability to produce A-grade essays, poems and programming code within seconds, ChatGPT has sparked a global goldContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: In addressing investors’ concerns, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that the proposed capital gains tax on unlisted shares announced during the recent tabling of the budget will only be finalised after engagement with the stakeholders. He said on Wednesday (Mar 8) that Putrajaya wanted to better meetContinue Reading
Pioneer of performance art Amanda Heng and Esther Tay, the first Singapore fashion designer to break into the Japanese retail market, were also inducted this year. Continue Reading
The HSR project, which aimed to reduce travel time between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to about 90 minutes, was discontinued after multiple postponements at Malaysia’s request and an eventual lapsing of an agreement in December 2020. Malaysia paid more than S$102 million in compensation to Singapore for the terminated project.Continue Reading