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(Yibada) – The Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), an NGO in Cambodia, is investigating the activities of foreign pedophiles in the poor Asian country. It has found that Asian men, including male Chinese, are customers of the thriving virgin trade in Phnom Penh. Pimps initially identify and train very...
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(TR Emeritus) – At a forum organised by the Economic Society of Singapore and the Singapore Management University (SMU) held yesterday (27 Oct), several experts have suggested that Singapore’s golden decade could possibly be over because of the lack of innovation and low productivity growth. Commentary: The golden era of...
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According to Community Action Network (CAN), a Singapore-based NGO, blogger Amos Yee, who was imprisoned on charges of “wounding religious feelings” of Christians and Muslims in an online YouTube video, has been transferred from maximum security prison to a medium security facility. Yee began serving a 6-week prison term on...
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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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(MMTimes) – Though coffee has been grown in this country for 100 years, production volumes were low and the quality was hidden under a bushel. But now international aficionados are starting to take Myanmar seriously as a producer of first-class joe. #Myanmar specialty #coffee making waves, thanks to @USAIDBurma...
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(Chiang Rai Times) – Dutch cannabis pioneer Johan van Laarhoven, who faces a 103-year jail sentence in Thai prison, has written a letter to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, pleading for help freeing him from “this Thai hell.” “I didn’t do anything illegal,” Van Laarhoven, 53, wrote in his...
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(Straits Times) Dozens of refugees in Thailand are expected to return to Myanmar today under a voluntary repatriation process for people displaced by decades of fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups. The pilot group is unlikely to be followed immediately by large numbers of returnees, given that...
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(Time) – Security has been heightened in several areas throughout the country amid “intelligence reports” of potential bomb threats At least one woman has died and 18 others were wounded after a bomb destroyed a noodle shop in southern Thailand, where the government has been battling insurgents for more...
(Yibada) – The Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), an NGO in Cambodia, is investigating the activities of foreign pedophiles in the poor Asian country. It has found that Asian men, including male Chinese, are customers of the thriving virgin trade in Phnom Penh. Pimps initially identify and train very...
(TR Emeritus) – At a forum organised by the Economic Society of Singapore and the Singapore Management University (SMU) held yesterday (27 Oct), several experts have suggested that Singapore’s golden decade could possibly be over because of the lack of innovation and low productivity growth. Commentary: The golden era of...
According to Community Action Network (CAN), a Singapore-based NGO, blogger Amos Yee, who was imprisoned on charges of “wounding religious feelings” of Christians and Muslims in an online YouTube video, has been transferred from maximum security prison to a medium security facility. Yee began serving a 6-week prison term on...
(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...
(MMTimes) – Though coffee has been grown in this country for 100 years, production volumes were low and the quality was hidden under a bushel. But now international aficionados are starting to take Myanmar seriously as a producer of first-class joe. #Myanmar specialty #coffee making waves, thanks to @USAIDBurma...
(Chiang Rai Times) – Dutch cannabis pioneer Johan van Laarhoven, who faces a 103-year jail sentence in Thai prison, has written a letter to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, pleading for help freeing him from “this Thai hell.” “I didn’t do anything illegal,” Van Laarhoven, 53, wrote in his...
(Straits Times) Dozens of refugees in Thailand are expected to return to Myanmar today under a voluntary repatriation process for people displaced by decades of fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups. The pilot group is unlikely to be followed immediately by large numbers of returnees, given that...
(Time) – Security has been heightened in several areas throughout the country amid “intelligence reports” of potential bomb threats At least one woman has died and 18 others were wounded after a bomb destroyed a noodle shop in southern Thailand, where the government has been battling insurgents for more...