Singapore jails second man in US$2.2 billion money laundering case
Defendant Su Haijin admitted to one charge of resisting arrest and two money laundering charges, the report said, and was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment.
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India election: top Modi critic Arvind Kejriwal urges compatriots to battle ‘dictatorship’
A top opponent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his compatriots to resist “dictatorship” on Saturday, after the country’s top court provisionally released him from jail to campaign in the ongoing general election.
Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar’s civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military
BANGKOK (AP) — Six months into an offensive against Myanmar ’s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war.
In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels as coming monsoons make it ‘harder and more dangerous’
In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim Myawaddy, a critical trading outpost on the Thai border.
US, Filipino troops ‘prepare for the worst’ with Balikatan invasion resistance drills
US troops massed at a strip of sand dunes on Luzon island’s northwest coast – around 400km (249 miles) south of Taiwan – let loose more than 50 live 155mm howitzer rounds at floating targets about 5km off the coast.
Companies welcome common standards as Vietnam prepares CO2 rules
HO CHI MINH CITY -- No matter the industry, private companies tend to resist government regulation. But this tendency is beginning to change when it comes to environmental rules.
Drones Changed This Civil War, and Linked Rebels to the World
In flip-flops and shorts, one of the finest soldiers in a resistance force battling the military junta in Myanmar showed off his weaponry. It was, he apologized, mostly in pieces.
Is Japan ‘xenophobic’? Biden’s remarks spark anger, debate over cultural differences
Academics in Japan expressed mixed feelings about the label, with some acknowledging there was resistance to large-scale immigration – the context in which Biden made the remark – but contending that such a stance does not equate with a “loaded, negative term” like xenophobia, given Japan’s unique cultural context and history.
U.S. 'nonlethal' aid for Myanmar's ethnic armies likely to backfire
Michael Haack was previously advocacy coordinator for the Myanmar Policy Institute in Washington.