KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the third straight meeting on Thursday (Sep 8), as it looks to tame rising inflation. Bank Negara Malaysia lifted its overnight policy rate by 25 basis points to 2.50 per cent, as expected by 19 of 20 economists polledContinue Reading
The world faces unprecedented and difficult challenges, including US-China rivalry, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and supply chain disruptions. One consequence of these challenges is the possible division of the world economy into two or more political blocs, not unlike the situation that prevailed before the Second World War. To […]
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A 25-year-old man demanded of his girlfriend that she send him nude photos of herself five times a week and when she refused, he threatened to commit suicide, beat her, or post her intimate pictures online. Read full storyContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister said on Thursday (Sep 8) he accepted criticism that he had not sufficiently explained why he wants a state funeral for slain former premier Shinzo Abe, a decision that has dented his support that has slipped to its lowest ever. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s decision toContinue Reading
POLITICAL CRISIS Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s emphatic win in July’s upper house elections – days after Abe’s shooting – was supposed to tighten his grip on the LDP, still dominated by the ex-premier’s supporters. Instead, revelations over LDP links to the church and his decision to grant Abe, Japan’s longest-servingContinue Reading
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now enters its seventh month with no apparent end in sight. Yet the conflict was supposed to be a lightning war, President Vladimir Putin’s version of Desert Storm, short, sharp, and decisive. Thanks to the seemingly limitless support the United States and its NATO partners have rendered to Ukraine’s defenders, the […]
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SINGAPORE: In a case the defence called “bizarre and weird”, a man instigated his girlfriend to take private photos of her mother for his sexual gratification. He also threatened to beat his girlfriend or kill himself if she did not come up with other ways to “satisfy his sexual desires”.Continue Reading
The Department of Special Investigation has summonsed Pattanapon “DJ Man” Minthakhin and his singer-wife Suteewan “Baitoey” Thaweesin to acknowledge three charges in connection with the Forex-3D Ponzi fraud.Continue Reading
Moscow has long used proxy leaders to provide a facade of independent legitimacy for the territory it controls and it did so after occupying territory in the east of Ukraine in 2014. Many of the personnel in the militaries of the breakaway Russian-backed states of Donetsk and Luhansk are Ukrainian. The leader of the provisional […]
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The Department of Special Investigation has summonsed Pattanapon “DJ Man” Minthakhin and his singer-wife Suteewan “Baitoey” Thaweesin to acknowledge three charges in connection with the Forex-3D online Ponzi fraud.Continue Reading