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STILL DEPENDENT ON CHINA FOR RAW MATERIALS India’s large and affordable labour pool is drawing foreign firms, and the government…

KUALA LUMPUR: A recent Malaysian proposal to Thailand could see private companies and startups involved in the development of special…

This was after an earlier ruling by the court that the party’s pledge to reform the royal lese-majeste law amounted…

“SHORT NOTICE” On Monday, the first full day of the indefinite nationwide curfew, Hasina was holed up inside the Ganabhaban,…

BULLET WOUNDS Two construction workers were killed on their way to work and 30 injured in the central district of…

Bangladesh has been engulfed by violence since student protests last month against the quotas, which reserve some public sector jobs…

JOHOR BAHRU: The man suspected of kidnapping a six-year-old girl in Johor Bahru last month was remanded again on Monday…

What led to Hasina’s resignation? Barton noted that Hasina’s 15 years of rule were marred with concerns about election fraud,…

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s parliament was dissolved on Tuesday (Aug 6), the president’s office said in a statement, a day after Prime Minister…

CALL FOR UN-LED PROBE United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a “peaceful, orderly and democratic transition” as well as…

KUALA TERENGGANU: The Congress of Union of Employees in the Public and Civil Services is urging civil servants in Malaysia…

JAYAPURA: Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s restive Papua region…