BANGKOK: Thai police are currently investigating the case of a Chinese model Yang Zeqi who went missing on the Thailand-Myanmar border area, similar to the case of Chinese actor Xingxing who had been rescued earlier, National Police inspector-general Pol General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot said on Thursday (Jan 9). According to the World Forum Facebook page, Zeqi took...
Brooke Shields is revealing many private and sometimes painful moments in her new memoir, including that a doctor once performed a vaginal rejuvenation procedure without her consent. The native New Yorker, 59, details the enraging experience in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old: Thoughts On Aging As A Woman, out Jan 14. Shields says that while she...
PUTRAJAYA: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's wife, Yoshiko Ishiba, on Friday (Jan 10) spent time enjoying a boat ride on Cruise Tasik Putrajaya for a view of the majestic buildings of Putrajaya from a different angle. She was welcomed on arrival at about 9.35am by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan...
PUTRAJAYA: Singapore aims to open consulates in Sabah and Sarawak to deepen economic links with East Malaysia and strengthen ties between people on both sides. Singapore and Malaysia will also start a programme for volunteers from Singapore to help teach English in some Malaysian schools. It will be known as the Malaysia-Singapore English Volunteers Programme, with a...
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man who owed a loan shark S$2,500 set up a fictitious boat repair company with two corporate bank accounts to repay his debt, and ended up sparking a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe. The court heard that the accounts were used to launder US$580,000 (S$794,000). Muhammad Ibrahim was on Wednesday (Jan 8) sentenced...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The "Gulf of Mexico" name is internationally recognized, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday in response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's comments about renaming the body of water. Trump on Tuesday had argued in favor of renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." Sheinbaum then took jabs at Trump, saying...
MANILA: Around 400 foreign nationals were arrested on Wednesday (Jan 8) in a "large-scale" raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila, the national immigration agency said. Authorities raided a building and found workers allegedly engaged in online scam operations targeting victims abroad. International concern has grown in recent years over similar scam operations in Asia...
PUTRAJAYA: Singapore aims to open consulates in Sabah and Sarawak to deepen economic links with East Malaysia and strengthen ties between people on both sides. Singapore and Malaysia will also start a programme for volunteers from Singapore to help teach English in some Malaysian schools. It will be known as the Malaysia-Singapore English Volunteers Programme, with a...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibet was struck with a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on Tuesday, one of the most powerful tremors in recent years, that hit the northern foothills of the Himalayas, killing at least 95 people. Tibet is a seismically active zone. It logged more than 100 earthquakes of magnitude of at least 3.0 last year. But...
JAKARTA: The search for the next coach of Indonesia’s national football team is underway following the dismissal of Shin Tae-yong. Football federation PSSI Chairman Erick Thohir confirmed that the federation has interviewed three candidates, including Dutch legends Louis van Gaal and Patrick Kluivert, with the official announcement set for Jan 12, reports Jakarta Globe. "One of the candidates...
