Myanmar authorities have filed several lawsuits against one of the main activists of the campaign against military rule, including cases related to murder and treason, the state broadcaster announced on Wednesday.Wai Moe Naing was arrested on April 15 when security men rammed him with a car as he led a motorbike protest rally in the central town of Monywa.Myanmar Television, in its main evening news bulletin, broadcast a list of charges filed against him, including murder and treason.The move…
GMP equalisation: pension providers should check product terms
Pension providers will not usually have to adjust benefits payable from their products to account for guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) equalisation – but should check terms carefully in case they agreed to anything different at the time of the transfer.
Indonesian police seize US$82 million of meth, shoot dead 1 suspect during raids
Indonesian police on Wednesday said they had smashed a drug smuggling ring that moved 2.5 tons of methamphetamine into the country from Afghanistan, a haul worth about US$82 million.One Indonesian suspect was shot dead while 17 others including a Nigerian were arrested during a series of police raids in Sumatra’s Aceh province and the capital Jakarta in recent weeks, they said.Some of the drugs had been placed inside food containers and then hidden in boats or lockers on land.The haul was…
Can New Zealand cut methane levels with cow cocktails, ‘climate-smart’ livestock?
Cows in New Zealand are getting a cocktail typically associated with hipsters in New York or London.Branded “Kowbucha”, a nod to the popular fermented drink kombucha, it’s being tested by one of the world’s biggest dairy producers, Fonterra Cooperative Group, to see if it can reduce the amount of methane burped out by the country’s 4.9 million cows.The supplement is the latest effort by the nation’s farmers to solve an increasingly pressing problem of livestock emissions as it pledges to become…
Investment limited partnerships law highlights Ireland’s funds strengths
Ireland has enhanced its reputation as a leading jurisdiction globally for operating investment funds through its recent introduction of the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Act 2020, an expert has said.
Coronavirus: Philippines could face India-like surge, doctor warns, as infections pass 1 million
Medical experts have warned that the Philippines could face a surge in coronavirus infections similar to that which engulfed India this month, amid reports of Covid-19 patients spilling out into hospital corridors in parts of Metropolitan Manila as the nationwide tally of cases crossed the one million mark.Dr Rodrigo Ong of the independent OCTA Research Group think tank, which produces forecasts on the virus’ spread, said the Philippines was now at the “same crosspoint” of about 10,000 cases…
Coronavirus: Indian doctors beg for help as crisis claims 117 lives an hour
Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signalling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works.Like other doctors across India – which on Monday set another record for new coronavirus infections for a fifth day in a row at more than 350,000 – the cardiologist has taken to begging and borrowing cylinders of oxygen just to keep his most critical patients alive for one…
Man shot dead in Myanmar two days after regional deal with junta, local media reports
Myanmar security forces shot dead a man in the second city of Mandalay on Monday, national media reported, two days after Southeast Asian leaders said they had reached consensus with the junta on ending violence.Activists opposed to military rule called on people to stop paying electricity bills and agricultural loans and to keep their children away from school, adding to doubts about a regional bloc’s push to end Myanmar’s post-coup crisis.The man was shot dead at a fried rice shop in Mandalay…
Kim Kardashian thanks Joe Biden for recognising mass killings in Armenia as genocide
Kim Kardashian thanked US President Joe Biden for acknowledging the mass killings of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide.“After more than a century of fighting for truth and acknowledgement, today the Armenian people received the recognition we have all been hoping and praying for, with President Biden declaring the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 a genocide,” she wrote on Twitter.Biden is the first president to formally recognise the killings as genocide,…
Is Asean’s Myanmar five-point consensus workable, and what is next?
The consensus forged between Southeast Asian leaders and Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to de-escalate his country’s post-coup crisis has come under scrutiny a day after it was forged at a summit in Jakarta.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) said after the talks on Saturday that the bloc had agreed on five issues: ending violence, constructive talks among “all parties concerned”, the sending of aid to Myanmar, the appointment of a special envoy to facilitate talks, and…