KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A court in Malaysia will on Wednesday deliver its verdict on an appeal by former premier Najib Razak over his conviction in a case related to a corruption scandal at 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), a state fund he co-founded. The following are details of the scandal and the cases brought against …
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By Tommy Ardiansyah CURAH KOBOKAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – At the foot of Indonesia’s Mount Semeru, what is left of the houses along the main village road are covered in a thick layer of hardened volcanic ash. Curah Kobokan was among the worst-hit areas when the 3,676-metre (12,060 ft) Mount Semeru erupted on Saturday, sending a …
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By Poppy McPherson (Reuters) – The imprisonment of former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law, a senior junta official said on Tuesday, and the country’s ruling general had commuted her sentence on “grounds of humanity”. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced to four years in prison …
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(Reuters) – Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, later cut to two, is just one of thousands held in the country since the military seized power 10 months ago. Each day in Myanmar, police and soldiers arrest those who dare to demand democracy be …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will provide aid worth more than $2.8 billion in next three years aimed at combatting malnutrition exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told an online summit on nutrition for growth on Tuesday. The event, hosted by Japan and participated in by more than 80 countries and agencies, comes when …
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister, Wunna Maung Lwin, held talks in Cambodia on Tuesday, a day after the junta drew global condemnation for sentencing deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to jail for incitement and breaching COVID-19 rules. Wunna Maung Lwin met Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace in …
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By Tony Munroe ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) – China’s snow sports industry is pinning its hopes on people like Shi Haoping, 32, who takes to the slopes to de-stress from his job as head of an online education company. “This is such a physical activity, it relieves the pressure for me,” Shi said while taking a …
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(Corrects conversion of 70,000 hectares in third paragraph to 172,973 acres, not 1.73 mln acres) By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fathin Ungku JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court on Tuesday rejected a bid by two companies to reinstate permits for palm oil plantations in its easternmost region of Papua, in what was seen as …
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said he could barely contain his excitement a day ahead of blasting off to the International Space Station in a prelude to a more ambitious trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX planned in 2023. The 46-year-old fashion magnate and art collector has been training at …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China administered about 7.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Dec 6, bringing the total number of doses administered to 2.56 billion, data from the National Health Commission showed on Tuesday. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
