KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s Home Minister has again defended an all-expenses trip to Istanbul taken by the national police chief, saying it was not sponsored by a private company. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin told reporters on Thursday (Feb 14) that “there was nothing wrong” with the working trip as it was funded by the Malaysia […]
The woman at the centre of the scandal that brought down former South Korean President Park Geun-Hye has been jailed for 20 years for corruption. The woman at the centre of the scandal that brought down former South Korean President Park Geun-Hye has been jailed for 20 years for corruption. Choi Soon-sil was found guilty […]
CANBERRA (NYTIMES) – The Chinese tourists found Parliament House, one of Australia’s most enduring national symbols, well … underwhelming. “County-level governments in China have fancier buildings. Am I right?” said Mr Jimmy Zhao, a Shanghai-born tour guide, who last month led a group of 55 tourists mostly from China, but also Malaysia and Singapore, on […]
KP Oli from Communist Party of Nepal was sworn in on Thursday as country’s 41st prime minister. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) has been sworn in as the 41st prime minister of Nepal, formally concluding the long-delayed democratic transition. President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath of office at […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Daring investors are dipping their toes back into UK housebuilders, attracted by high dividend yields and low valuations even though they are seen as among the most vulnerable sectors in the event of a messy Brexit. As Britain’s exit from the EU remains shrouded in fog, housebuilders have been top targets for […]
SINGAPORE – A supply vessel was reported to have capsized and sunk in Singapore territorial waters on Thursday (Feb 14) morning, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said. The Dominica-flagged supply vessel, Ocean Cooper 2, was in the westbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme – an international maritime route system to manage ship […]
A Hong Kong publisher with Swedish citizenship was seized on a train to Beijing despite being accompanied by two Swedish diplomats, his family say. Gui Minhai made headlines when he vanished in Thailand in 2015 and later resurfaced in China, along with other publishing colleagues from Hong Kong. He was freed from custody in October […]
TOKYO (AFP) – Environmental campaigners have filed an unprecedented lawsuit in a bid to halt the so-called “drive hunting” of dolphins in Japan, arguing the practice is cruel and illegal. In drive hunting, fishermen force dolphins into a cove by beating on boats to disorient them. The panicked animals often get tangled in nets, suffocate […]
ISKANDAR PUTERI, JOHOR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia has no plans to follow the footsteps of Thailand in enacting a lese majeste law to protect its Malay rulers. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Liew Vui Keong said the country had adequate laws to protect the position of the King, known as Yang di-Pertuan […]