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Sri Lanka reinstates death penalty for drug crimes ahead of polls
Reuters, Published on 26/06/2019
» COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday signed death sentences for four people convicted of drug-related offences in a decision analysts said is aimed at boosting his chances of re-election later this year.
Cambodia jails translator over 'fake news' sex trafficking film
Reuters, Published on 26/06/2019
» PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court jailed a fixer and translator for two years on Wednesday for his role in making a documentary about sex trafficking in the Southeast Asian country which the government said contained "fake news".
ICC prosecutor seeks full Myanmar atrocities investigation
Reuters, Published on 26/06/2019
» AMSTERDAM: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday moved closer to opening a full investigation into alleged crimes against the Rohingya people who were driven from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Indonesia retail sales growth in March rises to 10.1% y-o-y
Reuters, Published on 07/05/2019
» JAKARTA: Retail sales in Indonesia grew at 10.1% in March, compared with an annual growth rate of 9.1% in February, a central bank survey showed on Tuesday.
Strong earthquake strikes northern Peru
Reuters, Published on 26/05/2019
» LIMA: An earthquake with a magnitude as high as 8.0 stuck northern Peru in the early hours of Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey reported.
Thai exiles in fear after murders, disappearances
Reuters, Published on 24/05/2019
» When members of the exiled Thai protest band Faiyen learned that the concrete-stuffed bodies of two Thai activists who had disappeared from Laos had been found in the Mekong River, they grew worried about their own fates.
Myanmar, Thailand keen to co-host Under-20 World Cup
Reuters, Published on 24/05/2019
» ZURICH: Myanmar and Thailand have expressed interest in co-hosting the Under-20 World Cup in 2021 while Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates are considering a three-way joint bid, global football body Fifa said on Thursday.
April factory output unexpectedly rises 2.03% y-o-y
Reuters, Published on 28/05/2019
» Thailand's manufacturing production index (MPI) in April unexpectedly rose 2.03% from a year earlier, led by higher production of cars and air conditioners, the Industry Ministry said on Tuesday.
Malaysia to send back 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste
Reuters, Published on 28/05/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will send as much as 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste back to the countries it came from, the environment minister said on Tuesday, the latest Asian country to reject rich countries' rubbish.
Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed early
Reuters, Published on 27/05/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters.