BANDUNG, Indonesia (AFP) – Three Indonesian housewives have been arrested over an online video that claimed President Joko Widodo would ban prayer and make gay marriage legal in the Muslim majority country if re-elected, police said on Monday (Feb 25). President Joko, better known by his nickname Jokowi, has fended off accusations over his Muslim […]
SINGAPORE – A student molested an underage girl on eight separate occasions from 2013 to 2017 and even committed the offences during family gatherings. The 19-year-old was sentenced on Monday (Feb 25) to a year’s reformative training after pleading guilty last month to two counts of molestation. He will be sent to a reformative training […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Indonesian government has declared 16 provinces across the country as prone to forest and land fires ahead of the upcoming El Nino, a climate pattern linked to warming waters in the central and eastern areas of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Such weather phenomena are known to trigger […]
SINGAPORE – A polytechnic student managed to dupe 16 men out of a total of $3,200 by posing as prostitutes on the Internet. Lee Chao Hunt created online personas with the names “Jess” and “Alicia”, offering sex for $200 a time – but once the men transferred the money to his bank account, they found the […]
SINGAPORE – As a mother, she was supposed to protect her young daughter from sexual predators. However, the cook turned a blind eye to her live-in boyfriend sexually abusing the child, despite having reasons to believe that he was raping her. Even though the girl had told her mother that the man had done “sexual […]
One of the Afghan Taliban’s co-founders is in Qatar for peace talks between the insurgents and the United States. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar spent eight years in Pakistani custody until his release last year. His presence in Doha could help improve the chances of a deal being struck after several rounds of talks, correspondents say. […]
SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) – A photo circulating online of people striking poses on a war memorial have drawn flak from netizens. The photo, which was uploaded last Monday (Feb 18), showed four young men striking different poses on top of The Cenotaph, in Esplanade Park. One of them is believed to have even made […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A young man, identified as TSR, died after jumping from the roof of a supermarket in Bandarlampung in the Indonesian province of Lampung on Friday (Feb 22). TSR, 21, has been identified as a resident of South Lampung regency and a student at a state university in the […]
TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The Japanese and Indian governments have agreed in principle to work together on measures to combat cyber attacks related to the development of 5G technology, with concern on the Japanese side centred mainly on the products of Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei. The agreement is seen as showing […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – The risk-sensitive Australian dollar rose and the yen sagged in early Asian trade on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he will delay increasing tariffs on Chinese goods on March 1, citing “substantial progress” in trade talks. The Australian dollar gained 0.4 percent to $0.7157 , reacting to Trump’s latest posts […]