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A video shows the official shooing away Filipino workers seeking financial help outside the Philippine embassy in Bahrain.
Fans of Takato Ishida continue to swoon over him, even as the Fukui governor has to deal with his predecessor’s sexual harassment scandal.
Zobaidul Amin allegedly told victims the police would never find him. He was living in Malaysia, after all. Then the FBI put him on a plane.
A 21-year-old died because an assumption was made. The same assumption later left a stroke victim in a coma with 50-50 odds of survival.
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The race had been set for April 5 and would have marked the second year since Pyongyang resumed the event after the pandemic.
Ihor Komarov, a 28-year-old Ukrainian national, was reported abducted in mid-February while riding a motorcycle with a friend in Jimbaran.
While online users continue to marvel over his looks and physique, Tan has said he does not have a secret formula for eternal youth.
A 22-year-old woman accused of poisoning three men scored above the clinical threshold for psychopathy, according to investigators.
The two Austrian grooms each paid a 1 million baht dowry, then celebrated by leaping into a pond.
Protesters stormed the US consulate in Karachi as leaders, including Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim, condemned the killing and appealed for dialogue.
The video shows a masked passer-by appearing to knock the girl to the ground, prompting calls for an investigation.
The gesture accompanied Lula’s state visit to Seoul, where the two leaders agreed to strengthen bilateral ties.
South Korea and Brazil are taking action to protect fans from fraudsters cashing in with phantom merchandise and exploitative ‘oppa’ tours.
Using AI-generated images and simplified Chinese characters, a network of 3,000 fake accounts reportedly tried to sway Japan’s election.
Gemma Doyle, 26, says she stole the US$21 swimsuit ‘for fun’, but has now paid more than US$1,100 to avoid a stint in Indonesian prison.
The perceived squeeze on the wallet is a result of exchange rate volatility rather than the kingdom’s inflation, tourism officials say.
The survey covers six types of cheating: physical, emotional, cyber, object and financial infidelity, as well as micro-cheating.
Robin Padilla was criticised for downplaying depression and not being sensitive to the social and economic problems faced by young Filipinos.
‘It’s assault, physical assault. It’s a crime anywhere in the world, especially in Singapore,’ said a Philippine labour official.
While 10 were convicted of destroying evidence, not a single person has been charged in connection with the deaths of two Melbourne teens.
Sheyna Lashira Smaradiani was killed on Friday after a car struck her and her mother during a family holiday in Singapore.
The encounter at Johor Bahru land checkpoint also saw another officer hit the car’s bonnet with a traffic cone to stop the errant motorist.
A man who was carrying the balloons filled with hydrogen instead of the safer helium gas was also injured in the incident.
The Shanghai-born 35-year-old was jailed for 40 months after he pleaded guilty to three counts of sexually penetrating a girl, then 15.
Critics slammed a governor’s ‘crude’ suggestion to marry ‘Sri Lankan and Vietnamese virgins’ to local men as a fix for population decline.
Severe snowfall and related accidents across Japan have injured and even killed, including foreign nationals on holiday, in recent weeks.
The tourists who were served food by a family at the funeral were impressed with the kindness of the people in Thailand.
While Chinese nationals lead the pack, Malaysia’s tourism minister also cites interest from the US, UK, Australia and Bangladesh.
Critics said Lee Jae Myung should have posted in Chinese, not Khmer, as his warning to foreign syndicates sparked anger across Cambodia.
