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Guban, a former customs intelligence officer with 17 years of experience, told lawmakers that Congressman Paolo Duterte; lawyer Manases Carpio, husband of Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio; and Chinese businessman and economic adviser Michael Yang owned the massive magnetic lifters used to secretly transport hundreds of kilograms of crystal meth, or “shabu”, into the country in 2018.
Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said.
In a dizzying turn of events, Thailand saw a new prime minister sworn in on Aug. 18. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, leader of the country's ruling Pheu Thai Party and youngest daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, secured the top spot after winning a majority of the votes in the lower house of parliament and getting a royal sign-off.
BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday the two countries must be able to talk frankly about their disagreements and also pursue closer economic ties and work together on global issues.
TOKYO -- The proposed acquisition of Seven & i Holdings by Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard highlights how even the largest Japanese companies are vulnerable to takeovers, given their relatively low valuations compared with counterparts overseas.
TOKYO -- China is increasingly suspected of making "white hat" hackers, who are usually employed to find weaknesses in cybersecurity, complicit in cyberattacks, accelerating the country's offensive efforts in the field by effectively mobilizing its world-class private hackers.
This week Australia announced a massive solar farm that it hopes will eventually offer two gigawatts of power to Singapore via undersea cable.
That shocking electoral loss forced the Shinawatra clan to change its political clothes, with Pheu Thai now seen by critics as the underwriter of arch-royalist conservative elite interests – a far cry from its past as a pro-democracy outsider championing wealth-redistribution policies to the rural poor.