Chinese students’ suicides in Australia highlight mental health crisis amid ‘extreme isolation’
Police asked the public for more information while the local press indicated it was being investigated as a murder-suicide.
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Bank of Thailand: Governor Sethaput ready to adjust policy to ensure stability
The Bank of Thailand is ready to adjust monetary policy to ensure stability as policymakers grow more concerned about the impact that financial markets have on the macroeconomy, Governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput said.
Bombshell claims link Philippines’ Duterte clan to massive meth smuggling scheme
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.
The DMZ Is an Unhealed Wound for Korea. It’s Also a Source of Great Honey.
Cho Seong-hoan’s father liked to say that the honeybees on his farm were lucky. Unlike typical South Koreans, they could cross into North Korea, as he had done before war divided the peninsula.
Floods send nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis into emergency shelters
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.
Myanmar's Yoma expands noodle shops to Thailand in restaurant push
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's Yoma Group is bringing a local chain of noodle shops to Thailand this year, growing the conglomerate's restaurant business even amid political turmoil in its home market.
Microsoft plans September cybersecurity event to discuss changes after CrowdStrike outage
Microsoft said Friday it will hold a conference in September for cybersecurity firms to discuss ways the industry can evolve following a faulty CrowdStrike software update that caused millions of Windows computers to crash in July.
Philippines diving resort exchanges beach plastic waste for food
Green campaigners at a diving resort in the Philippines have come up with a novel way to clear beaches of plastic pollution, by exchanging rubbish for rice.