TOKYO: Japan’s weather agency warned Saturday (Sep 17) of “unprecedented” risks from a “very dangerous” typhoon heading towards the southern Kyushu island, urging residents to take shelter ahead of the storm. Typhoon Nanmadol was producing gusts of up to 270 kmh and was classified as a “violent” storm, the agency’sContinue Reading
Ukrainian forces, aided by Western firepower, have upset traditional military logic once again. Advancing deep into Ukrainian territory seized by Moscow earlier in its invasion, a counteroffensive launched in September 2022, has forced back the invading Russian army. In the process, Kiev has recaptured over 2,000 square miles of land in the country’s northeast and […]
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Eleven government officials, including six immigration police, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes to facilitate the release of five foreign fishing trawlers earlier confiscated for illegally fishing in Thai waters.Continue Reading
What had been suspected for some time has now come out into the open: China has “concerns” about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While this is hardly a big surprise, the source and venue of this admission is. Few would have expected Vladimir Putin himself to make such a statement – and perhaps even less so […]
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Cambodian conservation sites seek UNESCO status, Singapore allows gay sex but not marriage, Indonesia’s coal-fired electric vehicle manufacturing.
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Somewhat surprisingly, India took ten days to comment on US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and the ensuing large-scale live-fire drills launched by China. On August 12, New Delhi stated that it sought a “de-escalation of tensions.” Then on August 28, New Delhi accused Beijing of militarizing the Taiwan Strait through its High […]
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SINGAPORE: A fire involving a large pile of recycling waste broke out at Woodlands Industrial Park on Saturday (Sep 17) morning. Firefighters were called to 66 Woodlands Industrial Park at about 8.40am on Saturday morning, where a pile of recycling waste measuring about 100m by 100m and 8m in highContinue Reading
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, Chinese President Xi Jinping has left China to visit Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. This is in contrast to previous reports of Xi’s potential travel to Saudi Arabia or speculation that Xi’s first foreign travel would be to Indonesia for the G20 summit. Besides China, the SCO […]
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This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Ever since the FBI came out of Mar-a-Lago last month with box after box of documents, some of them highly sensitive and classified, questions have wafted over the criminal investigation: Why did former President Donald Trump sneak off with the stash to begin […]
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Negotiations to build a new pipeline designed to transport annually 50 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia to China through Mongolia are expected to close soon after the three countries’ leaders met in Uzbekistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh held a face-to-face meeting in Samarkand on […]
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