KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) is anticipated to grow by 5.1 per cent year-on-year in 2022, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) said. Read full storyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A 41-year-old man was sentenced to six weeks’ jail on Friday (Sep 30) for taking an upskirt video of a woman who was shopping for groceries in a supermarket. Abe Hidenori pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism. The court heard that the victim went to The Clementi MallContinue Reading
Two major protest planned rallies on Bangkok streets on Friday afternoon for the Constitutional Court’s ruling on suspended prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha term in office.Continue Reading
Australian Sean Turnell, an economic advisor to Myanmar’s democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in prison since the military coup of February 2021, awaiting trial for the supposed crime of stealing state secrets. This week a puppet court sentenced him to three years in prison, alongside Suu Kyi, who has already been sentenced […]
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SINGAPORE: A pilot with the Singapore Airlines was charged in court on Friday (Sep 30) with various tax offences, including under-declaring his personal income tax over six years and submitting false documents when asked for details of his rental properties. As a result of his alleged offences of under-declaring hisContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Indonesia has approved its first locally developed COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, the head of the country’s public health agency said on Friday (Sep 30), hailing it as a step toward “the nation’s independence in access to medicine”. Jakarta has stressed the importance of developing national vaccines since the beginningContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: About 950,000 Singaporean households living in Housing Board (HDB) flats will receive their third quarterly Goods and Services Tax Voucher (GSTV) – U-Save and GSTV – service and conservancy charges (S&CC) rebates in October. The rebates are part of the permanent GSTV scheme and Household Support Package (HSP) announced during the 2022 Budget inContinue Reading
The European Union is preparing to impose a new tranche of sanctions against Myanmar’s democracy-suspending, coup-installed military regime, but behind the new measures, a debate rages about whether Brussels should revoke the benighted nation’s EU trade privileges. In particular, many European and Myanmar trade unions are calling for Myanmar’s suspension from the Everything But Arms […]
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The blast took place at the Kaaj education centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi area in the west of the city.Continue Reading
South Korea’s new President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has vowed to boost trilateral security cooperation with the United States and Japan to better counter the North’s evolving weapons threats. The exercises brought together the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, the 9,800-ton guided missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville, theContinue Reading