Friday, 11 April 2014

CIA's 'harsh interrogations' exceeded legal authority

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A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA's legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say ...
Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Japan opposition fears Abe 'destabilizing' region

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Japan's main opposition leader chided Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for conservative statements on war history and voiced fear he could be a...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says

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A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interr...
Monday, 31 March 2014

Neville Maxwell interview: the full transcript

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In his first interview after a Snowden-style disclosure of the contentious secret report on the 1962 China-India war, Neville Maxwell tells ...
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Neville Maxwell discloses document revealing that India provoked China into 1962 border war

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Journalist’s Snowden-like revelations about 1962 war boost China’s claims of ‘peaceful rise’
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Sunday, 30 March 2014

China seizes $14.5 billion assets from family, associates of ex-security chief - sources

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Monday, 24 March 2014

Legendary "Kin Kin Chilli Pan Mee" Opens in Singapore

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Sunday, 23 March 2014

NSA infiltrates servers of China telecom giant Huawei

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The U.S. National Security Agency has infiltrated servers in the headquarters of Chinese telecommunications and internet giant Huawei Techno...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Russia won’t take an unreliable West at its word

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The revival of East-West tension over Ukraine looks thoroughly geopolitical. But the context is bad economics. In the last century, Russia w...
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Monday, 17 March 2014

‘No link’ between pilot’s politics and loss of Flight 370

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Reports linking the pilot’s political affiliation to the plane’s disappearance were dismissed as wild, groundless allegations by the Malaysi...
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Saturday, 15 March 2014

Police too soft on foreign workers in area: Shopkeepers

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A group of shopkeepers in Little India who witnessed the violence unfold on Dec 8 told the Committee of Inquiry (COI) yesterday that the pol...
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Donnino Rossetti, Italian restaurant owner jailed for attacking cabby in Singapore

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Shanghai men attracted to plump women

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A survey by a matchmaking website has confirmed a long-held suspicion — that Shanghai men prefer chubby, well-rounded women compared to thei...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Poorest doc jailed for big money transfers to lover

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How China's official bank card is used to smuggle money

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Growing numbers of Chinese are using the country's state-backed bankcards to illegally spirit billions of dollars abroad, a Reuters exam...
Monday, 10 March 2014

10 Stunning Spas You Won’t Believe Exist in Singapore

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Saturday, 8 March 2014

Japanese historians slam sex-slave apology review

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A group of Japanese historians on Friday stood behind their government's 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, slamming Tokyo's pos...
Friday, 7 March 2014

The golden fields of Luoping

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Saturday, 1 March 2014

The international law basis behind China’s claims

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Many have called on China to base its claims in the South China Sea on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos). In fact...
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Friday, 28 February 2014

Former NUS law don Tey Tsun Hang acquitted of corruption charges on appeal

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Former National University of Singapore law professor Tey Tsun Hang, who was previously convicted in a sex-for-grades scandal, was on Friday...