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Life stories and scare tactics: Thai parties ramp up online campaigning as election draws closer

With the election expected to be a showdown between the conservative incumbents and the more liberal opposition parties, all sides are pushing out rhetoric to influence voters.

  • Published: May 11, 202311:58 am
  • Author Tan Tam Mei
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Compact no-bathroom flats popular among young Japanese

While the rents for housing without bathrooms are low, an increasing number of young people are now living in such places by choice.

  • Published: May 11, 202311:50 am
  • Author Fumito Nagase
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Police arrest two on charges of trafficking 20 Indonesians to Myanmar

President Joko Widodo described the rescue mission as “not an easy one” as the victims has been held captive in a conflict-ridden area of Myanmar.

  • Published: May 11, 202311:20 am
  • Author Nina A. Loasana
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Youths drawn into ‘dark’ part-time jobs suffer at hands of criminal bosses

According to the National Police Agency, there have been more than 50 robbery and theft cases involving dark part-time jobs in at least 14 prefectures across the nation since the…

  • Published: May 11, 202311:13 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Pakistan army staged Imran Khan’s arrest: Report

On May 9, former PM Imran was arrested outside Islamabad High Court by Pakistan Rangers on a warrant issued by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

  • Published: May 11, 20239:26 am
  • Author The Statesman
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Riau Islands rejects report on swine fever outbreak

The head of provincial Food Security, Agriculture and Animal Health Agency claimed the World Organisation for Animal Health did not have the means to determine outbreaks of animal…

  • Published: May 11, 20239:19 am
  • Author Fadli
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Pakistan army deployed in Islamabad, Punjab, KP to restore law and order

Following former PM Imran’s arrest, massive protests broke out across the country, with demonstrators gathering outside military cantonments.

  • Published: May 11, 20239:14 am
  • Author Sanaullah Khan and Nadir Guramani
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After Imran, PTI’s Asad Umar arrested from IHC premises

Party secretary general Asad Umar was heading to the Supreme Court to challenge Imran’s arrest, when he was taken into custody by the police.

  • Published: May 11, 20239:13 am
  • Author Abdullah Momand
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Timeline of former prime ministers arrested in Pakistan

Pakistan has a long history of incarcerating individuals who have held the country's top executive office.

  • Published: May 11, 20239:12 am
  • Author Areesha Rehan
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Japan to review foreign worker regulations to ease labour shortage in care sector

Japan is facing a severe shortage of nursing care workers, with 3.58 nursing care job openings for every applicant in Feb 2023.

  • Published: May 11, 20239:12 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun

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