KUALA LUMPUR: From luxury Singapore apartments to Malaysian seafront condos, Hong Kong investors are shifting cash into Southeast Asian property, demoralised by increasingly violent protests as well as the China-US trade war. Millions have taken to the streets during four months of pro-democracy demonstrations in the southern Chinese city, hammering
US President Donald Trump’s decision to take custody of dozens of high-value Islamic State militants from the under-siege Kurds avoided their possible release but raised the pressure on Washington and its allies to accept them for trial. Until now Trump had repeatedly refused to take responsibility for any of the
STOCKHOLM: The Swedish Academy was set to crown two Nobel literature laureates yesterday, after postponing last year’s prize over a sexual harassment scandal. Experts say the academy will seek to avoid ruffling any feathers with this year’s choices as it bids to move on from the scandal that saw the
KINSHASA: Six people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains hit the capital Kinshasa, flooding several neighbourhoods. a local official said. The bodies were found between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Five people were killed in the capital’s Selembao municipality where around 30 houses collapsed, local
TUNIS: Tunisia’s jailed presidential candidate Nabil Karoui received a hero’s welcome as he walked free from jail Wednesday night, just days ahead of a run-off vote that he will contest against a rival political newcomer. An AFP journalist outside Mornaguia prison near Tunis saw throngs of the media mogul’s supporters
LOS ANGELES: Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began Wednesday as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. Pacific Gas & Electric, which announced the deliberate outage, is working
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it will allow women in the ultra-conservative kingdom to serve in the armed forces as it embarks on a broad programme of economic and social reforms. The move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the
Police sometimes use torture to extract confessions from suspects in death penalty cases and their trials are often unfair. Amnesty International has been piling pressure on the Malaysian government to abolish capital punishment. Malaysia has the death penalty for dozens of crimes and it is mandatory for several offences, including
In some paintings, the wounds are plain to see: an arm or leg lost to war. In others, the injuries that US veterans suffered are hidden from view. But all of the works by former president George W Bush — painted as a tribute to the men and women he
OITA (Japan): Wales will look to ramp up their performance to another level against Fiji today, amid constant reminders of their costly loss to the Pacific islanders in the 2007 World Cup. A late try to Fiji 12 years ago and Wales crashed out of the tournament while still in
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