By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore has revised its electoral boundaries, the Elections Department said on Tuesday, a move usually seen as a sign that the government is preparing to call a general election. The election due by November 2025, though Prime Minister Lawrence Wong can call it earlier, will be his first such test …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE – Following a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Philippines arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte due to an investigation into thousands of killings in a violent crackdown on drugs that was the hallmark of his rule. Here are some facts about the ICC: WHEN WAS THE …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has brought home nearly 300 of its nationals who were lured to various southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, with fake job offers and made to engage in cybercrime and other fraudulent activities in scam compounds, the government said. Thousands of people have been freed from cyber scam centres along the …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s government will introduce measures including tax incentives as it tries to support a stock market that hit a five-year low on Tuesday, with an official saying the steps will cost state coffers about $1.5 billion in revenue. Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira said the measures would include tax incentives on investments in mutual …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – The United Nations’ migration agency has reinstated humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees in Indonesia, its chief of mission in Jakarta told Reuters on Tuesday. The reinstatement follows a Reuters report last week that the agency had been forced to reduce aid to over 900 Rohingya refugees due to massive funding cuts by …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine police on Tuesday served an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for former President Rodrigo Duterte upon his arrival at a Manila airport and the ex-leader is now in custody, the office of the president said. (Reporting by Karen Lema; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by John Mair)
MANILA (Reuters) – Former Philippine President Rodrigo on Tuesday questioned under what law and for what crime he had been arrested, according to a video posted by local media outlet GMA news. “You have to answer now for the deprivation of liberty,” Duterte said in a video that GMA said had been supplied by his …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean singer Wheesung has been found dead, Yonhap News reported citing police on Monday. The 43-year-old’s body was discovered at his home in Seoul, less than a month after actress Kim Sae-ron was found dead after her career had taken a hit following a drunk driving incident in 2022. Police were …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is concerned by China’s “dangerous and destabilising” activity in the South China Sea, British foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday. “We are concerned by dangerous and destabilising activities by China in the South China Sea,” Lammy said in a post on X. “The UK and world economy depends on these …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Malaysia has warned its citizens against travelling to southern Thailand after bombings and shootings by suspected insurgents killed five people and injured 13 others at the weekend. The attacks occurred in the mainly ethnic Malay Muslim southernmost provinces of predominantly Buddhist Thailand, where more than 7,300 people have been killed since a …
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