PETALING JAYA: The United States returns around US$156mil (RM721.4mil) to the Malaysian Government marking the fourth installment of recovered misappropriated funds from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal. US Ambassador to Malaysia Edgard D. Kagan met Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to confirm the handover of funds on June 11, according to a statement by...
SHANGHAI: A flight from Shanghai to Jinan was delayed on June 10 after a passenger’s pet sugar glider escaped in the cabin, causing disruption and prompting the detainment of the pet owner. The authorities identified the woman only by her surname, Guo, and said the 34-year-old violated airline regulations by bringing the small marsupial on board...
SINGAPORE - A 46-year-old man who allegedly stole a carpark’s gantry barrier arms and caused damage to a building management’s wheel clamps has been arrested, the police said. The police added that the incident happened at a building in Buroh Street, on May 24. Officers from Jurong Police Division established the identity of the man on the...
DENPASAR: A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on Thursday (June 13) began the trial of an Australian man who faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted of possessing methamphetamine under the country's tough drug laws. Troy Andrew Smith, from Port Lincoln in South Australia, was arrested on April 30 after police...
HANOI: Vietnamese authorities are ramping up tax supervision on individuals who earn income from livestreaming sales on e-commerce and social media platforms to ensure they comply with tax regulations, Vietnam News reported on Wednesday (June 12). Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has directed the finance ministry to closely monitor livestream sales conducted through e-commerce platforms. Individuals...
A man took advantage of the girl’s impoverished situation to issue the dangerous challenge. A 13-year-old Thai girl was hospitalised last weekend after taking on an alcohol dare in exchange for 1000 baht (S$37). The girl, known as A, was attending an ordination ceremony at a temple in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima. There, A and her friend, a 13-year-old...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday she was still recovering both physically and mentally from an assault in central Copenhagen last week and warned about more aggression in the public. A 39-year old Polish man was remanded in custody over the assault which caused her to suffer a minor neck injury....
ATHENS/SYMI, Greece (Reuters) -British TV presenter and healthy living advocate Michael Mosley has been found dead in a rocky area on the Greek island of Symi, just metres away from his destination, local mayors told Reuters on Sunday. Mosley, 67, had been missing since Wednesday after he went for a walk alone along a coastal path...
BANGKOK: Former Democrat MP Thepthai Senpong believes there is little chance of paroled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra (pic) fleeing the country to avoid penalty over a recent lese majeste lawsuit. In a Facebook post on Wednesday (June 5), the former Nakhon Si Thammarat MP said Thaksin is confident of being granted bail in the case, so...
YANGON: Hundreds of mourners turned out Wednesday (June 5) to pay their respects to a former Myanmar general turned democracy activist and confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, in a rare sanctioned public gathering in the junta-controlled commercial capital. Foreign ambassadors and senior figures in Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party were among those...
