MANILA: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his two sons plan to run in the country's senate election in 2025, Vice President Sara Duterte said on Tuesday (June 25). "All of them are raring to run," Sara Duterte, the current Philippine vice president and daughter of the former president, told reporters less than a week after...
BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday agreed to extend a waiver on operating fees for hoteliers for two more years to support the recovery of the country's tourism sector, and also approved a subsidy for rice farmers. The exemption of the annual fee of 40 baht (US$1.1) per hotel room from July 2024 to June 2026...
HANOI (Reuters): Heineken Vietnam, a unit of the world's second-largest brewer Heineken, has informed authorities about plans to close of one of its breweries in the South-East Asian country due to weak demand, state media reported on Monday. The facility being shut down is located in the central province of Quang Nam province, the Quang Nam...
BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Chanin Yensudchai, former chairman of Stark Corporation Plc, was charged in court for public deception, fraud and money laundering that caused shareholders to lose billions of baht. Public prosecutors also called on the Criminal Court to not grant him bail due to the magnitude of public fraud he may be involved in. Wiroon...
CAIRO/RIYADH (Reuters): More than 1,000 people died during haj this year, according to a Reuters tally, as extreme heat hammered the nearly two million who took part in the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Most of dead were Egyptians. Security and medical sources told Reuters on Sunday that the Egyptian death toll had risen to 672...
MANILA, Philippines (AP): The president of the Philippines said Sunday his country would not yield to "any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines would never instigate a...
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Serbia substitute Luka Jovic headed a last-gasp equaliser to cancel out Zan Karnicnik's opener and salvage a 1-1 draw with Slovenia in an absorbing Group C clash at Euro 2024 on Thursday. Both sides hit the woodwork and had periods where they dominated possession and created chances at the Munich Football Arena in...
LONDON (Reuters) -Rishi Sunak is forecast to become the first sitting British prime minister to lose their own parliamentary seat at an election, a Savanta opinion poll published by the Telegraph newspaper ahead of the July 4 national vote showed. Savanta polled around 18,000 people between June 7 and June 18. The polling showed Sunak's Conservatives on...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia and China have agreed to increase high-quality investment in the digital and green economies between the two countries. One of the focuses is to set up a single window system which enables the seamless digital exchange of trade-related information between customs authorities in both countries. "The single window trade initiative between Malaysia and China...
HANOI: At least four people, including three children, died after a fire engulfed a six-storey house here on Sunday (June 16) evening, local media reported. The fire broke out at about 6.22pm (1122 GMT) on the fourth storey of the house on Dinh Cong Ha Street in Hoang Mai District, Vietnam News Agency reported. The flames spread...
