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Thailand and Malaysia have agreed on a proposal to push for a Thai-Malaysian border check-point to be open around the clock to facilitate transport of goods between the two countries, said Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong. He was speaking after a meeting on Thursday with Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Darell Leiking who visited Thailand
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine authorities started to evacuate thousands of people from coastal areas on Thursday as a super typhoon with winds of more than 205 km per hour bore down on the country’s main island. Typhoon Mangkhut is forecast to make landfall early on Saturday on the northern tip of Luzon island, and will
HANOI (Reuters) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that countries outside Indochina are too critical of politics in the region and that it should be left to solve its own problems. In a speech alongside other regional leaders, Hun Sen pointed to the international condemnation of his country’s recent election, which was
The EU-South East Asia Aviation Partnership Project, a new aviation partnership between the European Union (EU) and Asean is expected to be formally launched by the end of this year, said Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith. He was speaking after attending an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)-European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Forum on Civil Aviation in
HANOI (Reuters) – Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentence, and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression. Asked how she felt about jailing journalists as a democratic leader, Suu Kyi said: “They were not jailed because they were journalists,
GENEVA (Reuters) — Military and government officials in Myanmar have waged a “political campaign” to quash independent journalism, arresting and prosecuting many through the use of vague and overly broad laws, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday. Its report examined five cases, including that of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo,
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Hundreds of supporters of the leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party Kem Sokha gathered outside his house on Monday after he was released on bail after spending more than a year in jail on treason charges. “He was released on bail and he is under monitoring by the court,” government spokesman
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia has chided Malays’ attitude of being untrustworthy and lazy, according to the New Straits Times Malaysia Online on Sunday. “We accuse others. We accuse the government, accuse other races. When we fail, they are at fault. We are never wrong. Where are our faults? There are many. The first
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has blamed tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on certain products for record-high inflation in the Philippines, the Manila Times Online reported on Sunday. In his speech during a meeting with Filipinos in Jordan, Duterte said he would not be apologizing for the high inflation as he claimed
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accused his predecessor, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, of accumulating a string of wrongdoings which require the authorities to sift through all of them in stages, New Straits Times Malaysia Online reported on Saturday. He said this task would require time and that it was impossible to bring to book all
YANGON (Reuters) — Myanmar’s government said on Friday it “resolutely rejects” a ruling from the International Criminal Court (ICC) that said the body has jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity. A statement from the office of Myanmar’s President U Win Myint dismissed Thursday’s ICC ruling as
Two women were caned in front of an audience in a Malaysian court for trying to have sex early this week. The caning drew condemnation from human rights groups and calls to abolish corporal punishment in the predominantly Muslim Malaysia. The women, ages 22 and 32, were each struck six times with the cane Monday in
