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Trial begins in Vietnam's largest, multi-billion-dollar fraud
Reuters, Published on 05/03/2024
» HANOI: The trial in Vietnam's largest financial fraud case on record began on Tuesday, with nearly 90 defendants accused of being part of a $12 billion scam, for which some of them risk the death penalty.
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Caught up in war, Israel's migrants face tough choices
Reuters, Published on 25/10/2023
» MANILA/BANGKOK - Thousands of miles from home, Thai labourer Kamlue was on his way to harvest courgettes on an Israeli farm near the Gaza border on Oct 7 when the truck he was riding on came under heavy fire.
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Kyiv seeks $40bn to rebuild
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2023
» LONDON: Ukraine is seeking up to US$40 billion to fund the first part of a "Green Marshall Plan" to rebuild its economy, including developing a coal-free steel industry, a senior Ukrainian official said ahead of an international summit.
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Rohingya refugees face soaring hunger and crime after aid cuts
Reuters, Published on 20/06/2023
» LONDON: Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs.
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Samsung, LG plan multi-billion-dollar additional investment in Vietnam
Reuters, Published on 06/12/2022
» HANOI: South Korean electronics giants Samsung and LG plan to pour billions of United States dollars of additional investment into Vietnam, state media reports and the Vietnamese government said on Tuesday.
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Asean chair alarmed over escalating Myanmar violence
Reuters, Published on 26/10/2022
» The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is gravely concerned about escalating violence in Myanmar, the bloc's chair Cambodia said, in remarks ahead of a special meeting of its foreign ministers on Thursday to discuss the crisis.
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Shanghai separates Covid-positive children from parents
Reuters, Published on 02/04/2022
» SHANGHAI: Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26.
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Asean envoy set for 3-day Myanmar visit
Reuters, Published on 04/03/2022
» PHNOM PENH: A special envoy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is due to visit Myanmar from March 20 to 23, a Cambodian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday, in an effort to initiate a peace process in a country gripped by conflict triggered by a coup a year ago.
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Govt agrees plan for Saudi Arabia labour deployment as ties normalise
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2022
» The government plans to facilitate the deployment of labour to Saudi Arabia for the first time in decades, a spokesman said on Tuesday, part of the restoration of ties that were severed by the Gulf State over a multi-million dollar jewellery theft.
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Timeline - Myanmar's year of turmoil since the military coup
Reuters, Published on 25/01/2022
» Myanmar's military took power in a coup on Feb 1 last year after complaining of fraud in a November 2020 general election won by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party. Election monitoring groups found no evidence of mass fraud.
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