Sydney: The Australian Prime Minister’s office sent confidential talking points to the media by mistake, instead of sending the document to its own coalition’s members of parliament (MPs). The idea behind the document was to prepare the Australian government’s Liberal-National Party coalition members for Monday’s resumption of Parliament. Instead of sending confidential talking points to their own members of parliament… Read more »
For Kurds, a zilgit is traditionally a call to celebration. On Saturday, for hundreds of protesters, it was a call to action. Australia’s Kurdish community rallied in Melbourne to protest Turkish aggression in northern Syria, known as Rojava, days after the US pulled back troops from the region. Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society in Australia spokesman, Heval Herki, said protesters… Read more »
A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan’s worst in six decades made landfall southwest of Tokyo, with streets, beaches and train stations deserted.ADVERTISING Store shelves were bare after people stocked up on water and food ahead of Typhoon Hagibis. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of dangerously… Read more »
China threatened unspecified “strong countermeasures” if the United States Congress enacts legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters, in a sign of the deepening strain between the world’s two largest economies as they attempt to seal a trade deal. China’s Foreign Ministry issued the warning yesterday after the House of Representatives passed a package of measures backing a pro-democracy movement that has… Read more »
More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world’s “largest dark web child porn marketplaces”, investigators said. The site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times. It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence. But on… Read more »
How Vietnamese drug kingpins run Britain’s lucrative marijuana trade worth US$3.2 billion a yearSIGN IN/UPSoutheast Asia How Vietnamese drug kingpins run Britain’s lucrative marijuana trade worth US$3.2 billion a year Thousands of migrants are tricked and trafficked to work for Vietnamese bosses who have become major players in the UK weed game Police have busted cannabis farms in dog kennels,… Read more »
The stepfather of a 5-year-old girl admitted to assault and neglect leading to the child’s death last year during his first court hearing Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court. Yudai Funato, 34, said, “That is correct,” when Presiding Judge Minoru Morishita asked about his indictment over the fatal abuse of his stepdaughter Yua, who was assaulted and deprived of food… Read more »
Older Hongkongers taking to online apps and social media for latest updates on protests, and some may join rallies tooSIGN IN/UPPolitics Survey shows ‘surprising’ proportion of over-55s turning to Telegram and LIHKG for updates on anti-government movement Some older people want to know what their kids, grandkids are thinking; others seek latest news before joining protests themselves Published: 10:30am, 12… Read more »
PUBLISHEDOCT 15, 2019, 12:30 PM SGTFACEBOOKTWITTEREMAIL Representatives to the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights from Singapore, Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand have called for stronger collaborative action among the bloc’s members to mitigate transboundary haze and prevent it from occurring again in future. In a statement issued on Monday (Oct 14), Dr Shashi Jayakumar of Singapore, Mr Eric Paulsen of… Read more »
HANOI (DPA) – A top government official confirmed on Tuesday (Oct 15) that tap water across south-east Hanoi is contaminated with styrene, a carcinogenic substance, state media reported. Since Oct 10, residents in the Vietnamese capital have encountered polluted water supplies, with many reporting a smell similar to burning plastic coming from their tap water, and have thus turned to… Read more »
