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According to court documents submitted, an auxiliary police officer robbed a licensed moneylender which was involved in a similar case from five months ago. The officer was charged yesterday, following his arrest five hours after he tried to escape from the authorities. Mahadi Muhamad Mukhtar, 38 years old and an employee from security firm Aetos is currently facing a charge …

In comparison to last year’s economy and the previous quarter’s decline of 2.4%, the first quarter of 2021 has recorded a growth of 0.2% which implies a turnaround in the economy even in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis. This growth was caused by the manufacturing sector particularly the output expansions in the electronics, precision engineering, chemicals and biomedical clusters. …

Despite arguing that his friend has let him have the passport that was said to be stolen although he did not request for it, Singapore lawyer Jeffrey Ong who was accused of swindling millions of dollar from his clients was denied bail. Jeffrey Ong will continue to remain in custody. The 43-year old lawyer, who was the managing partner of …

It has been 56 days since internet has been shut down in Myanmar, as said by a monitoring group. But even in the middle of this internet outage and information suppression, the youths of Myanmar continue to fight through disseminating underground newsletter in secret across the community. Myanmar has been in commotion ever since the coup in order to take …

A former pro-independence group member, Louis Lo Yat, admitted possessing 1kg of lethal substances that he’s been keeping in an industrial building since the anti-government protests in 2019. After pleading guilty, he now faces up to 20 years imprisonment for hiding the explosives for the purpose of putting the life of people and the property in danger. Related PostsA Declaration …

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stated yesterday that Teo Chee Hean will be the acting prime minister in the event that PM Lee is away. After Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, who is supposedly the one to be acting prime minister in PM Lee’s absence, withdrew from his role as the next prime minister, Related PostsEnvy Global Trading director …

Unemployment rate may have declined, but people who do not have jobs are still numerous. Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said that it will be determined by the hiring demand and the keenness of employers to look past applicants who have familiar profiles. He also added that people who are looking for a job must take time to learn new skills …

Rescuers expect more death tolls as the effect of a tropical cyclone that killed not less than 128 people. They are now searching on the isolated areas of southeast Indonesia to look for the missing people. Helicopters were sent recently to help seek for survivors among 72 reported lost individuals so far within the East Nusa Tenggara islands, where tropical …

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the man behind the successful managing of the coronavirus pandemic in Vietnam, has been formally appointed as president in Hanoi. This was after the legislators cast secret ballots to elect Phuc to the new position on Monday morning. Related PostsASEANO provides funding for plastic waste studies.According to China’s foreign ministry, Locsin and three other ASEAN foreign ministers …

Commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing along with his generals continues to hurt and murder people and the world seems to be only observing. Although Myanmar is a member of the ASEAN, the organization does not seem to be attempting to end the mass murder in Myanmar. Whatever reason there may be, the people of the country is being failed by the …