Friday, 23 December 2016

Ex-BSI banker slapped with 30-month jail term

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Former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei has been sentenced to a jail term of 30 months - the heaviest sentence so far for attempting to pervert the co...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Taiwan's security problem must be resolved politically

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The military power balance across the Taiwan Strait has been tipped sharply in favour of the People's Republic of China over the past c...
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Sunday, 18 December 2016

How millennials are changing the way China thinks about money

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Ma Yiqing, 24, is typical of China's younger generation - he uses his credit card frequently and borrows from online platforms to fund ...
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Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Don't sleep on it: going to bed mad makes it worse

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A good night's sleep may reinforce negative memories in the brain, researchers said on Tuesday, lending scientific credence to the time-...
Saturday, 26 November 2016

Lucien Wong named the next Attorney-General

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Lucien Wong Yuen Kuai, chairman and senior partner at law firm Allen & Gledhill, has been appointed Attorney-General (AG) for three yea...
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

With RM12.5b port, Malacca eyes slice of shipping giant Singapore's pie

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Once at the heart of the global spice trade, Malacca is pumping nearly US$3 billion into an ambitious plan to put itself in demand in a dif...
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Israeli firm Cellebrite can steal phone data in seconds

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It only takes a few seconds for an employee of one of the world's leading hacking companies to take a locked smartphone and pull the da...
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Thursday, 17 November 2016

German exec, Michael Fritsch, gets 10 days' jail for punching taxi driver

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A German national who punched a taxi driver in the forehead was ticked off by a judge for his "deplorable"' conduct from star...
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Hong Kong judge blasts localist radicals for oath-taking that bordered on contempt

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Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung says oath is “not a mere formality or empty form of words”
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Hague prosecutors say U.S. forces may have committed war crimes

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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said on Monday there were preliminary grounds to believe U.S. forces committed ...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Manila's South China Sea arbitration against Beijing 'not wise'

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It was "not wise" of the Philippines to launch mandatory arbitration against China over their South China Sea territorial spat, s...
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Americans in China dismayed, embarrassed by US presidential campaign as election draws to close

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For many Americans living in China, the US presidential election can’t end soon enough.
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Duterte nurses old grudges against US

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President Rodrigo Duterte really doesn't like America. And, at 71 years old, he is unlikely to change his mind.
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Friday, 4 November 2016

Canadian court delivers heavy blow to spy agency, saying it kept data illegally

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A court dealt Canada’s spy agency a serious blow on Thursday, declaring it had illegally kept data collected during investigations over the...
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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Growth in ties validates trust in China: Najib

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The growth in their bilateral ties and cooperation validates the trust Malaysia has placed in China, said Prime Minister Najib Razak, whose...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

West should not lecture countries they once exploited, says Najib as Malaysia pivots to China

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that former colonial powers should not lecture countries they once exploited on their internal af...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Behind Manila's ties with Beijing is a Chinese billionaire and his drug rehab centres

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At the end of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's landmark visit to China last month, he held a brief private meeting with a busine...
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Why the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte Hates America

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To understand the roots of Duterte’s views, one has to take a closer look at his background, past experiences with the United States, and c...
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Monday, 31 October 2016

Why mind blanks happen during exams

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It's a pattern many of us have likely experienced in the past.
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Thursday, 27 October 2016

Taiwan’s cross-strait export of phone scams ‘no good for island’, former president says

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Taiwan has exported a highly undesirable “service” to the mainland – telecoms fraud, according to the island’s former leader.
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