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Price pressures expected to inch up in Malaysia

CGS International Research said inflationary pressures are poised to build up in the second half of the year as the government reforms take place.

  • Published: June 26, 202510:23 am
  • Author The Star
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‘Patriotic pumpkin sales’ through roof as public back farmers in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear

The drive for local sales stem from the suspension of vegetable and other imports from Thailand due to the current border dispute.

  • Published: June 26, 20259:35 am
  • Author Phak Seangly
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Bhutan’s economy at risk without urgent climate action: World Bank

The country's three main economic pillars, hydropower, agriculture, and tourism, are already increasingly exposed to climatic shifts.

  • Published: June 26, 20259:20 am
  • Author Yangyel Lhaden
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Child soldiers of Korean War still waiting for recognition

Of some 30,000 child soldiers who joined the war, 2,573 were killed. Under the current law, former child soldiers are recognized as war veterans but not as registered patriots.

  • Published: June 26, 20259:19 am
  • Author Jung Min-kyung
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Mob violence now alarmingly routine in Bangladesh

At least 179 people were killed in mob attacks between August 2024 last year and June 23 this year, per human rights organisation.

  • Published: June 26, 20258:55 am
  • Author The Daily Star
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Opposition slams Pakistan government’s Trump nomination for Nobel Peace Prize

The government recently posted on X that Mr Trump deserved the award “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent…

  • Published: June 26, 20258:10 am
  • Author Iftikhar A. Khan
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Malaysia’s Finance and Health Ministries form new committee to address private healthcare costs

The committee will include representatives from both ministries and Bank Negara Malaysia supported by a consultative council comprising key stakeholders in the private healthcare…

  • Published: June 25, 202511:43 am
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China cracks down on government procurement irregularities

The new notice relates to four categories - discriminatory terms against certain potential providers, arbitrary charges by procurement agencies, the provision of false…

  • Published: June 25, 202511:39 am
  • Author Yin Mingyue
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Film and the forgotten war: The Korean War on the silver screen

From intimate melodramas to state-sponsored spectacles, Korean War films reveal cinema's power to reshape collective memory.

  • Published: June 25, 202510:59 am
  • Author Moon Ki Hoon
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How to prevent the second Korean War

A second Korean War, if it broke out by any chance, would surely annihilate everything South Korea accomplished for the past 75 years.

  • Published: June 25, 202510:13 am
  • Author Kim Seong-kon

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