Japan donated over 10,000 ballot boxes for Cambodia’s 2018 election on Wednesday, the first international aid for the vote after European Union and the United States withdrew their support following the dissolution of the main opposition party.
Rights groups and members of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) have urged foreign backers, including Japan, to halt funding for Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) following a Supreme Court decision to dissolve the…
Success for HMRC in TV presenter employment status appeal
A former BBC television presenter engaged by the company through a personal service company (PSC) should be taxed as an employee under the employment intermediaries legislation, a tax tribunal has ruled.
‘Trump is here. Are you invited?’ US president’s son in India to sell luxury flats
The eldest son of US President Donald Trump has arrived in India to help sell luxury flats and lavish attention on wealthy Indians who have already bought units in Trump-branded developments.
Donald Trump Jnr posed for photos Tuesday morning with Indian developers, who are building the complexes in four cities.
Later in the week, he is expected to make a speech about Indo-Pacific relations at a New Delhi business summit, sharing the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Trump…
Religious teacher blames WeChat for LGBT movement in Malaysia and proposes a North Korea-esque approach
By Jonathan Loh
An Islamic religious teacher has called for a near dictatorial level of control by the government over online media access to support the suppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) sentiment among the Malaysian community
Ustaz Hanafiah Abd Malek said in a report by The Malay Mail Online that the Malaysian government should adopt North Korea’s strict control of the internet to handle the LGBT community.
Hanafiah cited examples of North Korea…
‘Digital bank run’ a risk should central banks issue their own virtual currency, says Weidmann
The head of the Deutsche Bundesbank has warned of the risks to financial stability should central banks issue their own virtual currencies, including from a potential “digital bank run”.
Are Malaysian theme parks safe? Issue highlighted after Phillipine star Ruffa Gutierrez’s daughters allegedly harassed
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Unfortunately, family trips don’t always work out the way we expect them to.
A Filipino star with more than a million followers on Instagram recently highlighted a bad…
Malaysian rapper Namewee probed over ‘offensive’ Lunar New Year dog video with suggestive sex moves
A rapper in Muslim-majority Malaysia is under police investigation for allegedly insulting Islam with a Lunar New Year video that features dancers wearing dog masks and performing suggestive moves.
The video features controversial rapper Wee Meng Chee, known by his stage name Namewee, sitting on a chair in front of a domed building and mimicking barks of canines from around the world.
Several black-clad dancers wearing masks of dogs – an animal considered unclean in Islam – gyrate…
Mother wants public execution for Pakistan serial killer who raped and murdered 7-year-old daughter
A Pakistani court has handed four death sentences to a man charged with raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in a case that shocked the country and sparked major riots in his home district.
Imran Ali, 24, was on trial for killing Zainab Ansari in the eastern city of Kasur last month.
He faces further charges in the cases of at least seven other children attacked in the Punjab city – five of whom were murdered – in a spate of assaults that had stoked fears a serial child killer…
The museums behind the murmurs of a Southeast Asian renaissance
Museums have always been both window and mirror: they provide a lens into our society while also functioning as a way to reflect upon our own lives.
They have played an outsize role in shaping culture, often with political purpose; the National Palace Museum in Taipei forms part of Taiwan’s claim that it is the “real China”, while the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts presents what it considers to be works exhibiting the “national character” of the country.
In…
Planned ‘pharma city’ to pump out cheap Indian drugs is making villagers sick with anger
Driving up the motorway from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, smooth all-weather roads become wider. In the crisp February morning, factory chimneys raise their heads above the green landscape and roadsides are lined with cotton crops, waiting to be harvested.
Saraswati, a landowner of the Medipally village in Telangana province, of which Hyderabad is the capital, shudders to think that all this would soon be replaced by miles and miles of concrete factories manufacturing pharmaceuticals…