The exercise aims to boost Manila’s military capability while serving as a US show of support for its Asian ally amid China’s growing assertiveness. Nearly 18,000 troops are taking part in the annual exercises, which for the first time will include the sinking by live fire of a decommissioned PhilippineContinue Reading
Revellers walked through a half-kilometer-long span in Bangkok’s’s visitor district of Khaosan Road, many of them drenched to the face, blindly firing water guns and dancing to music blaring from kerbside organizations. Jared Baumeister, a attorney from New York, who flew into Bangkok this week to attend the holidays, saidContinue Reading
BEIJING: China on Thursday (Apr 13) blamed the “negative impact” of US military drills for tensions on the Korean peninsula, after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile that prompted Japan to briefly issue a seek shelter warning. South Korea’s military said it had detected one “medium range or longer” ballistic missileContinue Reading
JAKARTA: The supervisory board of Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission on Wednesday (Apr 12) questioned five leaders in the agency over alleged ethics violations in relieving a former investigation director of his duties. This came after Mr Endar Priantoro reported two members of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) – chairman Firli BahuriContinue Reading
TAK: About 12,000 Myanmar refugees left this border province for their homeland in Myawaddy this week after they had taken shelter on the Thai soil over the past week, according to the Thai army.Continue Reading
More 100 kilogrammes of narcotics were intercepted in an operation in Thailand, and suspects from three countries were arrested, the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) reported.Continue Reading
The Indonesian island of Bali was next on the itinerary, but after that, anything is possible. “They call it ‘gap year’, but it’s the gap to what? Let me be clear, I have no idea what’s coming next,” Healey said. “At a place like Brown, you get a lot ofContinue Reading
According to her lawyer, she decided to do a delivery on her sleeping husband’s behalf as she had no money to feed her daughter.Continue Reading
To be sure, many remain sceptical on Hong Kong’s promise of a stable regulatory regime on cryptocurrencies. One crypto venture capitalist, who declined to be named citing the sensitivity of the matter, said that he remained worried as China’s crypto ban still looms large in the background. “If Hong Kong canContinue Reading
Boat-dwelling members of this ethnic minority are on the front lines of ecological collapse. Adaptation to life off the riverbank has brought its own challenges
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