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(SCMP) The new Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, Chen Quanguo, is strongly tipped to join the party’s Politburo next year as a result of his strong ties with Premier Li Keqiang and five years of hardline rule in his previous post in Tibet, which won him the trust of party...
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(Original Editorial Published October 19, 2016) (The Nation) – The government and military will have to bear the blame if estranged Muslim community decides to take up arms. One can make a strong argument that the ongoing insurgent violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has been in the making for some...
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VIDEO BELOW: Leo Thanks Jho Low and Riza Aziz (2 min 16sec in), implicated (video link) in a Department of Justice Lawsuit Involving Alleged Embezzled Money Used to Produce Leo’s Award Winning “Wolf of Wall Street” Movie. (Yahoo) – A leading anti-corruption organisation is urging Leonardo DiCaprio to return earnings made...
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In a press statement earlier this month, SUARAM, a human rights NGO based in Malaysia, dismissed the idea mooted by several elite members of Malaysian society to form a unity council that will “establish guidelines” for a “national recalibration”. The proposed council is the second incarnation of the first...
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FAM investigates the tangled web of corruption that is the Obama Department of Justice and the Malaysian government. See separate coverage on Leonardo di Caprio and the 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal here. (Reuters) – Malaysia will sign a contract to purchase Littoral Mission Ships from China when Prime Minister Najib Razak...
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(Tuoi Tre News) – U.S. Pacific Command Commander, Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., paid a three-day visit to Vietnam that concluded on Friday, according to the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam. Adm. Harris’s visit to Vietnam from October 26 to 28 included meetings with a number of Vietnamese military officers and government...
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(The World Bulletin) The Cambodian government has given the green light for three more refugees detained by Australia on the South Pacific island of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia. The Cambodia Daily on Friday quoted refugee official Tan Sovichea as saying that the paperwork has been approved by...
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(NDTV) – As India’s purchasing power and geopolitical influence increases, Pakistan risks increasing global isolation when it comes to purchase of high-tech defence items, an American think-tank has said. “Over the long term, Pakistan may be unable to access the most advanced weapons systems in the global marketplace. Instead,...
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(AFP) – China’s ruling Communist Party declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership on Thursday, elevating his already powerful status. A communique issued by top party leaders after a four-day meeting in Beijing called on all its members to “closely unite around the CPC Central...
(SCMP) The new Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, Chen Quanguo, is strongly tipped to join the party’s Politburo next year as a result of his strong ties with Premier Li Keqiang and five years of hardline rule in his previous post in Tibet, which won him the trust of party...
(Original Editorial Published October 19, 2016) (The Nation) – The government and military will have to bear the blame if estranged Muslim community decides to take up arms. One can make a strong argument that the ongoing insurgent violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has been in the making for some...
VIDEO BELOW: Leo Thanks Jho Low and Riza Aziz (2 min 16sec in), implicated (video link) in a Department of Justice Lawsuit Involving Alleged Embezzled Money Used to Produce Leo’s Award Winning “Wolf of Wall Street” Movie. (Yahoo) – A leading anti-corruption organisation is urging Leonardo DiCaprio to return earnings made...
In a press statement earlier this month, SUARAM, a human rights NGO based in Malaysia, dismissed the idea mooted by several elite members of Malaysian society to form a unity council that will “establish guidelines” for a “national recalibration”. The proposed council is the second incarnation of the first...
FAM investigates the tangled web of corruption that is the Obama Department of Justice and the Malaysian government. See separate coverage on Leonardo di Caprio and the 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal here. (Reuters) – Malaysia will sign a contract to purchase Littoral Mission Ships from China when Prime Minister Najib Razak...
(Tuoi Tre News) – U.S. Pacific Command Commander, Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., paid a three-day visit to Vietnam that concluded on Friday, according to the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam. Adm. Harris’s visit to Vietnam from October 26 to 28 included meetings with a number of Vietnamese military officers and government...
(The World Bulletin) The Cambodian government has given the green light for three more refugees detained by Australia on the South Pacific island of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia. The Cambodia Daily on Friday quoted refugee official Tan Sovichea as saying that the paperwork has been approved by...
(NDTV) – As India’s purchasing power and geopolitical influence increases, Pakistan risks increasing global isolation when it comes to purchase of high-tech defence items, an American think-tank has said. “Over the long term, Pakistan may be unable to access the most advanced weapons systems in the global marketplace. Instead,...
(AFP) – China’s ruling Communist Party declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership on Thursday, elevating his already powerful status. A communique issued by top party leaders after a four-day meeting in Beijing called on all its members to “closely unite around the CPC Central...