Vietnam’s draconian rehab centres, Cambodia’s modernising markets, Malaysia’s enduring charcoal industry
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KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 174 Malaysians who are victims of job scams are still stranded in foreign countries, said the Malaysian police. Police secretary Noorsiah Saaduddin said they had received 224 reports made by family members and friends of 284 scam victims. Of the total, 110 Malaysians had beenContinue Reading
KABUL: A suicide bomb attack on a classroom of hundreds of people preparing for exams in the Afghan capital on Friday (Sep 30) killed at least 19 people, with most of the casualties girls, police and a witness said. The blast ripped through Kaaj Higher Educational Center, which coaches mainly adultContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Four people were shot and killed by an armed rebel group in Indonesia’s restive West Papua province, the latest in a string of attacks on civilians, police said on Friday (Sep 30). The West Papua National Liberation Army, which the government has designated as a terrorist organisation, said itsContinue Reading
BANGKOK: Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday (Sep 30) ruled that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had not exceeded the maximum eight years allowed in the post, paving the way for his likely return from a five-week suspension. The court was announcing its decision in a case filed by the opposition, whichContinue Reading
The loan-to-value limit for HDB loans has been lowered from 85 per cent to 80 per cent, while property loans from private financial institutions will see an increase in medium-term interest rate floor by 0.5 per cent.Continue Reading
TOKYO — When Larry Summers says it’s bad, you know it’s bad. Ex-Treasury Secretary Summers made his bones amid the wreckage of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Summers was a key member of the financial fire brigade tending to — and at times making worse — a blazing meltdown that left big scars. As such, […]
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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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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
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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