KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who escaped the gallows after she pleaded guilty to an alternative charge in the murder of North Korean Kim Jong Nam, will be a free woman come May 3. The 30-year-old is expected to be released from the Kajang Women’s Prison at 9am on […]
SINGAPORE – A 32-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday (April 24) for allegedly cheating at least 48 victims through phone scams over more than a year. The police said in a statement on Thursday night that they received reports that a man had impersonated a staff member of a business organisation and requested victims working […]
KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (NYTIMES)- Zaharan Hashim, a radical Muslim preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, never hid his hatred. He railed against a local performance in which Muslim girls dared to dance. When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he raged about how Western […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Friday on expectations that producer club OPEC will soon raise output to make up for a decline in exports from Iran following a tightening of sanctions by the United States against Tehran. Brent crude futures were at $74.09 per barrel at 0029 GMT, down 26 cents, or 0.4 […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – Britain’s Prince William met survivors of a deadly shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, including a five-year-old girl recovering in hospital, during a two-day visit to New Zealand. William, the Duke of Cambridge, was making the trip on behalf of his 93-year-old grandmother Queen Elizabeth, New Zealand’s head of state, following a […]
BOSTON (Reuters) – Greenhill & Co. has hired former Morgan Stanley banker Alfredo Porretti to build up the investment bank’s business of defending companies against activist investors, a source said on Thursday. Porretti will join Greenhill as a managing director, heading the New York-based firm’s shareholder advisory practice. At Morgan Stanley, where he worked for […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain and China will hold the next round of their Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) in mid-June in London, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Thursday, after months of reports that talks had been delayed by diplomatic tension. The EFD has been used in the past to announce closer cooperation on trade […]
SINGAPORE – Police have arrested a man for his suspected involvement in an outrage of modesty case. On Tuesday (April 23) afternoon, the police received a report that an 18-year-old woman was molested by a man when she was on board an MRT train heading to Yio Chu Kang station from Choa Chu Kang station, […]
Malaysia to implement vehicle entry permit for foreign vehicles entering from Singapore from October
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will enforce mandatory registration for foreign vehicles entering from Singapore from October, the government announced on Thursday (April 25). The long-debated vehicle entry permit (VEP) scheme is expected to be carried out in three stages, beginning with the Causeway and Second Link followed by the Malaysia-Thai border and then the border […]
The 20-acre cannabis plantation was no secret. The farm, near Mandalay in central Myanmar, had been praised on Facebook by a group calling itself the Mahar Legalization Movement Myanmar, which wants the Burmese government to ease the heavy penalties it imposes on cannabis production and use. The group approvingly posted photos of what it called […]