StanChart robbery: UK Secretary of State orders extradition of David Roach to Singapore The United Kingdom Secretary of State has ordered the extradition of David Roach, the suspect in the 2016 Standard Chartered bank robbery, […]
Laos dam collapse: bombshell accusations, few answers (video) Questions, accountability concerns, and controversies continue to swirl around the Laos dam disaster in July that killed more than 40 villagers, as evidenced by a range of […]
Sanctions against Myanmar are “Nonsense” claims the Ambassador of Japan The Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar, Ichiro Maruyama, is adamant that international sanctions against this country are “utter nonsense.” — Modern Tokyo Times Myanmar: EU’s preferential […]
Prices of consumer goods lower here, but no clear link to e-shops A year since Mr K. W. Toh decided to set up online stores on Carousell and Lazada after the closure of his Sim […]
Deeper integration boosts prospects for China, Asean Over the past decade, China’s outward investment into Asean has increased steeply from practically zero to about US$122 billion in 2016. In addition to the bigger Asean economies, […]
‘Ongoing genocide’ underway against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims: UN A genocide is still underway against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, a UN fact-finding team said Wednesday as it presented a report at the Security Council calling for the […]
Changi passenger traffic up 6.1% to 5.23 million in September Visitors from China and Japan boosted monthly volumes. — Singapore Business Review Organised criminal group crippled: 66 arrested, bank accounts frozen and over $428k cash […]
China fails to stop U.N. Security Council Myanmar briefing China, backed by Russia, failed on Wednesday to stop a United Nations Security Council briefing by the chair of a U.N. inquiry that accused Myanmar’s military […]
In Laos, a World Bank ‘model’ dam and the myth of sustainable hydropower It wasn’t a flood. It was a tsunami, Premrudee Daorung said of the wall of water that tore through the forests of […]
Singapore on track to pursue industry 4.0 vision SINGAPORE has been moving fast towards achieving industrial transformation by creating both soft and hardware infrastructures to support firms and workers to achieve industry 4.0. — The […]
SK E&C’s attempts to cut costs led to design changes that resulted in collapse of dam in Laos SK E&C attempted to earn excessive profits with changes to the format and design of a dam […]
Yangon Government Wants Published Apology From Jailed Eleven Media Journalists Government officials in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon said Tuesday that they will drop a court case against three jailed journalists accused of committing offenses against […]