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Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore hope to lure Chinese with visa-free travel
Reuters, Published on 09/02/2024
» SINGAPORE/BANGKOK - Chinese engineer and aviation enthusiast Wei Ming is exactly the kind of visitor the tourism authorities in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are looking for.
China visa-free travel: relaxing entry restrictions adds up
South China Morning Post, Published on 06/02/2024
» BEIJING - French national Marc Guyon travelled to China on the first day that Beijing began allowing citizens of his homeland to enter visa-free.
Fallen football chiefs Blatter and Platini face fraud trial
AFP, Published on 07/06/2022
» LAUSANNE - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the chiefs of world and European football, face trial on Wednesday over a suspected fraudulent payment that shook the sport and torpedoed their time at the top.
Thousands cross as Malaysia-Singapore border reopens
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/04/2022
» SINGAPORE: Thousands of people travelled between Malaysia and Singapore in cars, motorcycles and by foot on Friday after the land border separating the two nations reopened fully for the first time in two years.
Sriwijaya air crash search suspended due to bad weather
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/01/2021
» The search for one of the black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Saturday has been suspended due to bad weather, Indonesian officials said.
Indonesian divers retrieve black boxes from air crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/01/2021
» Indonesian Navy divers retrieved the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing Co jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Saturday afternoon, a key step in discovering what caused the aircraft carrying 62 people to crash.
Michel Platini grilled by Swiss prosecutor in payment probe
AFP, Published on 01/09/2020
» BERN (SWITZERLAND) - Michel Platini was quizzed by a Swiss prosecutor on Monday in a probe investigating a two-million-Swiss-franc ($2.2-million) payment that the former European football chief received from FIFA in 2011.
Singapore, Malaysia agree on key aspects of green lane travel
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/07/2020
» Singapore and Malaysia said they’ve agreed on key aspects of green lane travel as the two countries move a step closer to reopening one of the world’s busiest border crossings.
Swiss set trial date for PSG chief, ex-FIFA no.2
AFP, Published on 29/04/2020
» LAUSANNE - A Swiss court on Tuesday scheduled a September trial date for Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and FIFA's former secretary general Jerome Valcke, in an alleged corruption case.
Qantas world’s safest airline, Garuda most punctual
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/01/2020
» The world’s safest and most punctual airlines are in the Asia-Pacific region, according to surveys.