Month: February 2018

By Jessica Lin
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (also known as Jokowi) has proven himself to be a true Metallica fan.
The 56-year-old leader reportedly paid 11 million rupiah (US$805) to redeem a limited-edition boxed set of Metallica’s Master of Puppets presented to him by Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen last year.
According to Jakarta Post, Jokowi had declared the gift to Corruption Eradication Commission which decided the double-vinyl album was a part of state…

A number of pension schemes suspected of being linked to cold-calling are currently under investigation by police and The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

By Muhd Amirum Faiz Ahmad A man, said to be a mental patient, spent an hour driving a stolen ambulance around the Malaysian city of Kuching before he was finally apprehended near a shopping mall. In the, the man, 36, had managed to sneak into a private ambulance, which was dropping off another patient at the Sarawak General Hospital before gunning the engine and fleeing with the vehicle. Deputy Kuching police chief Superintendent Abang Junaidi Abang Annuar said they eventually managed…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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”.

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A post shared by RUFFA GUTIERREZ (@iloveruffag) on Feb 15, 2018 at 3:50am PST Family-centred theme parks are meant to be safe, comfortable zones for people of all ages to be in, right?
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…

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…