Friday, 17 July 2015

Ex-PetroSaudi exec fingers Malaysians in 1MDB scandal

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Thai police said Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo, who is in custody and expected to be charged with blackmailing his former employer, Petr...
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Thursday, 16 July 2015

Former agent: I was abandoned by MI5 after breakdown

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A former MI5 spy has broken cover to give the BBC an unprecedented account of his life in service - and describe his anger at the way he was...
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China meat smuggling crackdown stokes risky underground trade

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On a dusty industrial lot in northern Hong Kong, a group of travellers sheltered in the shade away from the pressing July heat, packing old ...
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Wartime 'Abenesia' bad for Japan's international reputation

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With the world watching, in his historic address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, the first ever by a Japanese Prime Minister, Shinz...
Monday, 13 July 2015

Poor intelligence, porous borders stymie Chinese control of Uighurs

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Reuters

Japan cinema legend Miyazaki joins protests against move to widen military role

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Japan cannot use military strength to counter China, Hayao Miyazaki, famed director of the Oscar-winning film "Spirited Away", sai...

Japan should be explicit over war sorrow: animator Miyazaki

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Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki, whose last film was accused by some South Koreans of glamourising war, said Monday Japan needed to cl...
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Clamping down on egotourism

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It used to be fine to take a picture of the Eiffel Tower or Mount Everest, but that's not good enough any more. Now tourists have to put...
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Friday, 10 July 2015

Turkish embassies in Southeast Asia ‘gave fake travel documents to Uygurs fleeing China’

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Turkish embassies in Southeast Asia have been accused of helping Uygurs from the restive Xinjiang region to flee from China by issuing quest...
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Thursday, 9 July 2015

Martial arts star Yu Chenghui passes away

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Yahoo
Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Reopen murder case of AmBank founder

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Malaysian opposition veteran Lim Kit Siang has asked the police to reopen its investigation into the murder of Arab-Malaysian Development Ba...
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Monday, 6 July 2015

Singapore’s freedom of speech in question: former NTU journalism professor

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Yahoo
Thursday, 2 July 2015

NUS sacks law professor, Sundram Peter Soosay, who attacked cabby

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The National University of Singapore on Monday (Jun 29) terminated the appointment of Sundram Peter Soosay, the assistant law professor who ...
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Dino Petrus Johannes van Deijzen, cabby attacker’s jail term raised to 3 months

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He beat up a cabby who threatened to call the police if he did not pay the fare, failed to apologise, and instead portrayed himself as the v...
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Torture ‘not okay’: Former FBI agent

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As for those who say torture is justified, in light of the people that lose their lives in terror attacks, Mr Soufan said: “Your job is not ...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Tired of protest and conflict, Hongkongers give July 1 pro-democracy march the cold shoulder

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As thousands of Hong Kong protesters flocked to Victoria Park for the July 1 pro-democracy march, some chose to give the annual ritual the c...
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El Nino and its effects on the world

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Yahoo
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Most of the out-of-date frozen meat found in China from United States

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Expired frozen meat smuggled into China, sometimes decades old, is mainly old food reserves from the United States and is distributed to sma...
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Japan’s Unesco bid omits history of slave labour, former POWs claim

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Former US prisoners of war have expressed “serious reservations” about Tokyo’s application to have several industrial facilities recognised ...
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Monday, 29 June 2015

Dark condos point to supply overhang

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A year after lensmen from The Business Times put together a photo essay on “dark condos” to highlight the rising vacancies in the private ho...
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