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 …
The Star’s front page story on a Malaysian terrorist leader was accompanied by a photograph of Muslims praying at a mosque in Putrajaya. — Picture by Boo Su-LynKUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — The Star …
SRINAGAR, May 28 — Authorities clamped a curfew across most of Indian-administered Kashmir for the first day of the Muslim Ramadan festival today and partially cut telephone services to thwart protests over the killing …
28 Malaysians join Maute militants, intelligence official says By Tony Emmanuel,The Malay Mail Online 13 hours ago PETALING JAYA, May 28 — Twenty-eight Malaysians have joined the Islamic State-backed Maute militants in the battle …
By Jeremy Page in Beijing and May 26, 2017 11:32 p.m. ET The Pentagon said two Chinese jet fighters unsafely intercepted a U.S. naval surveillance plane over the South China Sea in the second such …
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