By Mei Mei Chu (Reuters) – Malaysia will hold a general election on Nov. 19, its election commission said on Thursday. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved parliament on Oct. 10 and called for snap polls, saying an election would end years of political instability. Here is a breakdown of how Malaysian elections work: THE …
(Reuters) -Bombs inside parcels exploded at Myanmar’s biggest jail on Wednesday prompting soldiers to return fire in a confrontation in which at least eight people were killed, state media and a witness said. An armed anti-junta group claimed responsibility for the attack at Insein Prison in a statement posted on social media, saying it was …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will hold a general election on Nov. 19, its election commission said on Thursday, in a contest that the ruling graft-tainted party hopes will strengthen its hold on power. The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) may have the edge in next month’s election as the opposition is in disarray, and …
By A. Ananthalakshmi and Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will hold a general election on Nov. 19, its election commission said on Thursday, in a contest that the country’s ruling graft-tainted party hopes will strengthen its hold on power. Here are the key issues that will determine how Malaysians vote: ECONOMY & INFLATION …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – An investigation by the government of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is raising fresh questions about the death of a South Korean official in 2020, which the previous administration wrote off as a failed defection attempt. Documents reviewed by Reuters from a parliamentary inquiry, the coast guard and a …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s capital, Beijing, has dialled up measures to stop COVID, strengthening public checks and locking down some residential compounds after a quadrupling of its case load in recent weeks, just as a key Communist Party congress entered full swing. The city of 21 million people on Thursday reported 18 new locally transmitted …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian rock climber who competed in an international contest without a headscarf said she had done so unintentionally, after she was widely assumed to have expressed support for protests in Iran. Footage of Elnaz Rekabi, 33, had shown her scaling a wall without her head covered during the Asian competition in …
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By Heekyong Yang and Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired 100 more artillery shells off its west coast on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, just hours after it launched hundreds of shells into the sea off its east and west coasts in what it called a grave warning to South Korea. North Korea has …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government is considering a plan to jointly produce weapons with Taiwan, a business lobby said on Wednesday, an initiative intended to speed up arms transfers to bolster Taipei’s deterrence against China. U.S. presidents have approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Taiwan since 2017 as China has ramped up …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka aims to nearly double its tax revenue to around 15% of gross domestic product by 2026 from 8.5% now, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Wednesday, as his island nation attempts to find a way out of its worst economic crisis in seven decades. The increase in taxes is …
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