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Malaysian police on Monday said they were investigating social media-fuelled claims that former Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud was forcibly taken from hospital against his doctor’s orders, amid an ongoing legal dispute between his Syrian wife and his children over his vast fortune.
Navy spokesman Roy Vincent Trinidad said about 200 vessels, including coastguard fleets, were swarming the outcrop about 37km (23 miles) away from the Second Thomas Shoal, referred to by the Chinese as Renai Jiao.
Japanese police on Thursday raised the death toll of the magnitude-7.6 quake that struck the Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day to 238, with 19 people still listed as missing. Of the 238, at least 32 died from extreme cold waiting for rescue teams, police said. Most were in the coastal towns of Wajima and Suzu, on the northern coast of the prefecture, which bore the brunt of the quake and subsequent tsunami.
On Monday, Anwar tried to soothe the outrage being aimed at his administration, which came to power in late 2022 partly thanks to the support of Umno, Najib’s party.
When drag artist Patruni Chidanand Sastry, 31, stepped on to the open-air stage at an elite school in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad – dressed in an embroidered blouse and skirt, a multicoloured wig and a mask made of sawdust and tamarind seed paste – children sitting in the front row looked at him in awe.
Three presidential hopefuls faced off on Sunday to discuss issues ranging from health to employment, culture, information technology, social welfare, and inclusion.
It made sense for Tokopedia, GoTo Chief Executive Officer Patrick Walujo said, as the e-commerce platform was burning cash and had seen transaction volumes decline by more than 25 per cent at the start of last year.
Comments by a Japanese author who revealed she used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help write the novel for which she won Japan’s most prestigious book award have roiled the country’s literary industry.