Philippine forces controlled most Marawi where gunmen linked to the Islamic State group launched a bloody siege nearly a week ago, authorities said Monday, as they put a neighbouring city on lockdown over fears …
BY OPALYN MOK Monday May 29, 2017 05:06 PM GMT+8 Lim said the state will also need the federal government to issue an approval letter to enable the state to obtain loans directly from …
By Venus Wu | HONG KONG A top Chinese official said on Saturday Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy must not be taken as a license to confront Beijing, and urged the territory’s government …
By Jan Milo Severo (philstar.com) | Updated May 29, 2017 – 10:00am 11 98 googleplus1 0 A scene from ABS-CBN’s “Ang Probinsyano” showing KZ Tandingan singing the soap opera’s theme song at the wedding reception of …
29 May 2017 at 10:578,003 viewed2 comments WRITER: BLOOMBERG NEWS Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, CEO of Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet Air speaks during an interview in Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 May 2017. Ms Thao, 46, became …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar was supposed to turn away from China and toward the West when the United States helped the Southeast Asian country make the transition to a civilian government after five decades …
Thailand’s government is under pressure to resolve a festering ethnic conflict in the country’s deep south. The country’s southernmost provinces have a population of 80 percent Malay-speaking Muslims. The land used to be a …
KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Territories Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) is stepping up enforcement operations during this Holy month of Ramadan. Its enforcement chief Wan Jaafar Wan Ahmad said this was being done in all …
DUBLIN: Ireland is on the verge of a huge generational change in its political life with the likely election of Leo Varadkar as its next premier – a move that would give the once-staunchly …
NAYPYIDAW, May 28 —Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned today, blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater autonomy, which the military fears could break the …
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