COLOMBO: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team met Sri Lanka’s president on Wednesday (Aug 24) for talks on a bailout, including restructuring debt of about US$29 billion, amid the nation’s worst financial crisis in more than seven decades. The second such visit in three months comes as the Indian OceanContinue Reading
“We are facing rising commodity prices, oil prices for export,” explained Veera Naphaprukchart from Thai Preserved Food, part of popular brand Wai Wai. The price of wheat flour rose roughly 20 per cent to 30 per cent and the price of palm oil had doubled, he said. Veera blamed risingContinue Reading
Thailand PM Prayut Chan-o-cha was suspended from official duty on Wednesday (Aug 24) while the Constitutional Court decides if he has reached his 8-year term limit.Continue Reading
Anti-trafficking campaigners in Hong Kong played a harrowing recording on Aug 24 of a resident testifying that he has been kidnapped and forced to work for online scam syndicates in Myanmar. Read full storyContinue Reading
Supporters of Najib Razak submitted a memorandum to the king on Wednesday, a day after he was sent to jail over the SRC International guilty conviction, to demand a royal pardon for the former prime minister.Continue Reading
The United Malays National Organisation has summoned its grassroots heads this weekend for a briefing on “current issues”. Continue Reading
Social media was abuzz with comments wondering about the treatment Najib would receive in the prison. The said Facebook post alleged that VIP inmates have access to TV, Internet, air-conditioner and “high-quality mattress”, as well as meal allowances that are higher than other prisoners. The allegations were reposted on differentContinue Reading
BEIJING: Several cities in southern China raised their cyclone warning signals on Wednesday (Aug 24), bracing for Tropical Storm Ma-on, which is expected to make landfall along the coast of Guangdong province on Thursday. At 12.40pm, the Hong Kong Observatory issued a strong wind advisory, with speeds up to 62kmhContinue Reading
JAKARTA – It was dusk when photojournalist Tim Page pulled into a village deep in the mountains of northern Thailand. It had been a long day shooting opium poppies, but he had a roll of new fast film and in his mind was an image of an old man smoking an opium pipe by the […]
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Thailand PM Prayut Chan-o-cha, who had survived four parliamentary no-confidence votes, was suspended from official duty on Wednesday (Aug 24) while the Constitutional Court decides if he has reached his 8-year term limit.Continue Reading