It’s never been a better time to be in the red in Hong Kong. The financial hub plans to ease its listing rules to allow more firms that have never turned a profit to go public as part of a plan to attract at least 100 innovative tech firms to list on the local bourse […]Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has told candidates standing for the upcoming general elections and party supporters to be “civil” during the campaigning period which begins on nomination day. In a statement on Thursday (Oct 20), Comptroller of the Royal Household of Istana Negara, AhmadContinue Reading
CHIANG MAI: New cracks were found in a school building and at a temple after a 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook Doi Saket district early on Thursday morning.Continue Reading
The new code of conduct aims to protect consumers against over-indebtedness amid a growing BNPL industry.Continue Reading
A police senior sergeant-major has been arrested in connection with the theft of about 90 guns from the Pak Kret district station in Nonthaburi where he was based.Continue Reading
Performer Yuenyong “Aed Carabao” Opakul will be summonsed to report to police next Tuesday to answer a charge of defaming the governor of Suphan Buri province, a senior police officer said on Thursday.Continue Reading
The grand mosque, located inside an Islamic centre complex, was undergoing renovation. “We have discussed the possibility of continuing the renovation… the most important (thing) is we can use it (the mosque) again soon,” Jakarta’s acting governor Heru Budi Hartono told Metro TV Thursday. The cause of the fire, whichContinue Reading
SEOUL – North Koreans are so keen to consume overseas media that they take life-threatening risks to do so, a survey clandestinely conducted among respondents in the deeply isolated state and published this week has found.
Despite – or perhaps because of – the ongoing ultra-tight border closure instituted as a result of Covid-19, North Koreans want to learn about the wider world and are coming up with ingenious technological countermeasures to access external information, the survey notes.
The survey was conducted from June to August this year among 50 North Koreans who live in different parts of the country by the Unification Media Group, or UMG. UMG operates Seoul-based Daily NK, a niche media outlet whose reporters obtain on-the-ground information from sources inside North Korea and secretly smuggle it out on smartphones.
One service provider’s 10-minute charge can last about 30km, roughly the distance between Raffles Place and Changi Village.Continue Reading
ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, starts a two-day meeting in Paris on Thursday (Oct 20), and is expected to take up the removal of Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”. In a meeting in June, the FATFContinue Reading