Malaysia to introduce ‘kill switch’ to boost online security
The kill switch aims to increase the responsibility of social media platform providers and internet messaging services providers in combating cybercrimes such as online scams,…
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S. Korean man who let his father die due to financial difficulties to be released on parole
In a highly publicized case in 2021, the 25-year-old man was convicted after he stopped providing food and medication for his terminally ill father due to financial troubles.
End crackdown on protesters, lift all curbs: Amnesty International to Bangladesh government
"Authorities must immediately lift the shoot-on-sight orders, fully restore internet access across the country and end the use of army and paramilitary forces in the policing of…
Japanese population drops by single-year record of 860,000
The country experienced its 15th consecutive year of population decline since peaking in 2009, with the largest single-year decrease in terms of both number and percentage.
Sign language chatbot among S’pore innovations to get funding support from new programme
Public transport users from the deaf community will soon be able to get help with directions at Chinatown MRT station from Silvia, a chatbot that communicates in sign language.
East Nusa Tenggara Catholics aim for Dili to see the Pope
With only five buses available to travel the Kupang-Dili route, calls are mounting for the government to assist the swaths of people hoping to complete the nine-hour long journey…
How to say ‘no’ to a date
South Korea's social norms and pressures amplify the challenge of declining.
In major reform, Bangladesh issues circular making 93 percent of job recruitment based on merit
The remaining seven percent will be from various quotas: five percent children of freedom fighters, martyred freedom fighters and Biranganas. One percent quota has been reserved…
Schools in Japan’s Noto region assign hugs for homework; children still suffering trauma from quake
While many children still complain about mental and physical problems due to the lack of progress on rebuilding, more than 100 children and parents have given feedback such as…
Employment rates, wages drop once women become mothers in South Korea: study
Data suggest there is a persistent price women pay for having and caring for their children while working—referred to as the "motherhood penalty"—in Korea's workplaces,…