Singapore’s disgraced former transport minister S. Iswaran, jailed last year for obstructing justice and receiving more than $300,000 of gifts, will serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, the prisons service said on Friday. Iswaran was the first former cabinet member to be jailed in Singapore after a high-profile trial that gripped the […]
Read MorePhilippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Friday she had been preparing since last year for impeachment and would welcome on her defence team her firebrand father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, if interested to join. Sara Duterte said she had not read the complaint against her endorsed by majority of lower house members but her […]
Read MoreA petition seeking the impeachment of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country’s former president, received the required support on Wednesday of more than a third of lower-house lawmakers, paving the way for a trial in the Senate. House Secretary General Reginald Veslasco told reporters there was a sufficient number of signatures […]
Read MoreThe United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) today launched a new £1 million initiative to strengthen transport policies and workforce development for a just transition to electric mobility in Bangkok. The project is funded through the Thailand UK PACT (Partnering for […]
Read MoreA pilot has died in a helicopter crash in the northern Philippines. The pilot was the only one on board at the time and had previously dropped off a passenger, Philippine authorities said. The four-seat helicopter, owned by a local company, flew from the capital Manila to the northern mountain city of Baguio on Saturday […]
Read MoreChina’s diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Myanmar have yielded results. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the second-largest armed group in the Three Brotherhood Alliance, has signed a ceasefire agreement with the country’s military junta government under Beijing’s mediation, The Irrawaddy reported. Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, the group […]
Read MoreMyanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the country into chaos after a decade of tentative democracy. Myanmar has been locked in a civil war triggered by the military’s overthrow of the […]
Read MoreThailand’s economic growth may falter at under 2.9% this year after a weaker-than-expected fourth quarter despite a vaunted government cash handout aimed at firing up sluggish growth, the central bank chief said on Thursday. The Bank of Thailand previously anticipated that the economy could expand by 2.9% this year, lower than the finance ministry’s projection […]
Read MoreIndonesia’s additional budget of 100 trillion rupiah ($6.14 billion) for its programme to give free meals to school children this year will add nearly 2 percentage points to the country’s growth, an aide to President Prabowo Subianto said on Friday. Prabowo’s signature free meal programme began earlier this month and had initially targeted reaching about […]
Read MoreHealthcare centres serving tens of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border have been ordered shut after U.S. President Donald Trump froze most foreign aid last week, forcing Thai officials to transport the sickest patients to other facilities. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), which funds the clinics with U.S. support, told the facilities to shut […]
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