Category: Asia

Fri 16 August 2019: Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, on Monday faces the biggest of five trials linked to a multi-billion-dollar scam at state fund 1MDB, although lawyers are seeking a delay to allow time for the completion of a previous trial. The first trial, which began in April and revolves around former 1MDB […]

Thu 15 August 2019: Myanmar insurgents killed at least 15 people on Thursday, most of them members of the security forces, in attacks on an elite military college and other government targets in the country’s north, an army spokesman said. The Northern Alliance, a collection of armed groups in the region, claimed responsibility for the […]

Thu 15 August 2019: JAKARTA: Indonesia has shipped tonnes of Australian garbage out of the country, an official said Tuesday (Aug 13), as Southeast Asian nations push back against serving as dumping grounds for foreign trash. Eight containers of trash – weighing about 210 tonnes – left Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya on Monday aboard a cargo ship […]

Wed 14 August 2019: Hong Kong police are touting their ability to spray protesters with dye in order to track participants. Hong Kong Police Force Superintendent Louis Lau Siu-Pong said in avideo posted to Facebook on Sunday that police are looking to introduce a portable spraying device which would mist a dye, referred to in the […]

Wed 14 August 2019: India’s domestic passenger vehicle sales in July dived at the steepest pace in nearly two decades, an auto industry body said on Tuesday, as a financing crunch deepened a crisis in the country’s autos sector and triggered large-scale job losses. Sales of passenger vehicles to car dealers plunged 30.9% to 200,790 […]

Tue 13 August 2019: An elderly Indian couple set upon by masked burglars armed with machetes chased their attackers off with nothing but ordinary household objects in an epic battle caught on CCTV, earning them much respect from the internet. One sword-wielding masked miscreant creeps up on 72-year-old Shanmugavel as he sits in front of […]

Mon 12 August 2019: Singapore will ban the domestic trade in ivory from September 2021, the government said on Monday, shutting the door to an important end-market for poached elephant ivory. Demand for ivory from Asian countries such as China and Vietnam, where it is turned into jewels and ornaments, has led to a surge […]

Mon 12 August 2019: Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was a livewire in Sri Lanka’s military campaign to end a long civil war but faces allegations of human rights violations, was nominated Sunday as the opposition’s candidate for the presidential election to be held later this year. Gotabaya, a brother of former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was […]

Sun 11 August 2019: India’s opposition Congress party selected past president Sonia Gandhi as its interim leader on Saturday, while it searches for a successor to her son Rahul Gandhi, who quit following a crushing election defeat by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) unanimously decided to appoint Sonia Gandhi as “interim […]

Sat 10 August 2019: While the world focuses on the ongoing trade war between China and the U.S., another spat has been brewing between commodity giant Indonesia and the European Union. Indonesia, the top producer of the world’s most-used vegetable oil, is seeking to raise import tariffs on EU dairy products to 8%-18%, according to Enggartiasto Lukita, the trade […]