Woman found dead in drain at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal
The 54-year-old is believed to have been a cleaner at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal. Police have classified the case as murder. Injuries on her neck »
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Top Malaysia political cartoonist arrested
Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque -- who goes by the pen name Zunar -- was arrested in Penang state where he was participating in a literary festival. Penang district police chief, Mior Faridalathrash Wahid, told AFP that Zunar was arrested "under the sedition act". "Levels of repression are reaching dangerous levels in Malaysia," said Michael Vatikiotis, a writer at the festival.
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IS-linked militants under siege in Philippine town: army
Up to 100 Islamist militants from a group behind a deadly bombing in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's home city were on Saturday under siege in a remote mountain town, officials said. Residents of Butig, which has a population of 17,000, have fled after the IS-linked militants holed themselves up in an abandoned government building, Philippine military spokesman Brigadier-General Restituto Padilla said. "The Armed Forces of the Philippines has launched an operation to chase after the Maute leaders," Padilla told AFP, adding that artillery and military aircraft were aiding ground-based security forces.
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Britain’s most married man, 68, to wed for NINTH time (after divorcing wife number eight)
Ron Sheppard pictured with Cristel Marquez, set to be his ninth bride. Britain’s most married man is set to walk down the aisle for a ninth time – just as soon as his divorce from wife number eight comes through. Former Pontins Bluecoat Ron greeted the beauty queen armed with flowers and a box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates on Wednesday.
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Singapore teams heads to Hong Kong to secure army carriers
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore's army is sending a team to Hong Kong to secure nine of its armored personnel carriers that were seized by customs authorities while in transit through the southern Chinese territory, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
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Tyga settles last of jewellery debt as he faces new lawsuit
The star was served with another suit as he prepared to party for his 27th birthday.
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Ex-Chelsea doctor Carneiro reveals death threats
Former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro received death threats following her departure from the club last year, she revealed in a newspaper interview published on Saturday. "Even though I don't have a presence on social media -- I think I have made one post ever in my life -- some of the threats of sexual violence and death threats make it through," she told the Daily Telegraph. "They (the abusers) just seem to be faceless cowards and they should be answerable to legislation." Carneiro, 43, left Chelsea in September 2015 after being publicly criticised by then manager Jose Mourinho for going onto the pitch to treat a player during a home game against Swansea City.
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‘Trump to pursue regional hegemony in South China Sea’
A Donald Trump presidency does not mean the United States will withdraw from the South China Sea, but rather will continue pursuing “regional hegemony,” Chinese academics who drafted a report for an influential government think tank said yesterday. Ensuring “absolute control” over the South China Sea was the crux of US military strategy in the Asia-Pacific, according to what the authors said was China’s first ever public report on the US military presence in the region, released yesterday in Beijing. “There will be no overturning change to US policy in the South China Sea,” said Wu Shicun, head of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, an influential Hainan-based think tank that wrote the report.
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Man shot dead while trying to stop man from beating woman
Police say a man trying to stop another man from beating a woman in a crowded San Antonio parking lot has been shot dead and a bystander has been critically wounded. The shooting happened Friday afternoon ...
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Woman abandons 3-month-old baby at NAIA
An overseas Filipino worker from Jordan left her three-month-old baby with a stranger at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 yesterday. The passenger was identified as Vilma Lastima, 36, of Maco, Davao. Lastima, along with her son, arrived at the NAIA on Thursday and spent the night at the airport.
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3 Phl universities in global employability rankings
Three Philippine universities were included in the latest graduate employability rankings released by international higher education information provider Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), University of the Philippines (UP) and University of Santo Tomas (UST) were all ranked 201+ out of 300 universities around the world that were included in the list.
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Mother ready to face Kazim’s suit in sexual abuse case
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — A mother said she is ready to see popular preacher Datuk Mohammad Kazim Elias in court should he sue her for defamation for linking his tahfiz school in Ipoh to allegations...
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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90
By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday. Wearing a green military uniform, a somber Raul Castro, 85, appeared on state television on Friday night to announce his brother's death. "At 10.29 at night, the chief commander of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died," he said, without giving a cause of death.
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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom dismiss split rumours in coordinating onesies
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry were alleged to have split earlier this year, but showed they are very happy together as they marked Thanksgiving at the singer's family home.
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Southampton left sweating after defeat in Prague
Southampton's hopes of reaching the Europa League knockout rounds remain in the balance after Claude Puel's side lost 1-0 away to Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic on Thursday. A solitary first-half goal by Zimbabwean full-back Costa Nhamoinesu, firing a Borek Dockal free-kick past Fraser Forster, was the difference between the sides at the Generali Arena in Prague.
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Senate, House clash looms over De Lima
The Senate and the House of Representatives are at loggerheads over what to do with Sen. Leila de Lima, whom congressmen want sanctioned for allegedly obstructing a congressional investigation into the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and other senators slammed their House colleagues’ running roughshod over inter-parliamentary courtesy in pressing to unseat De Lima for allegedly preventing her former lover and driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayan from appearing at the inquiry. The House committee on justice cited Dayan in contempt and ordered his arrest last October after his failure to appear in its hearings to testify on De Lima’s alleged links to drug lords.
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Adenan will shift stance on Shariah Bill, Sarawak DAP chief claims
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem will renege on his pledge to block PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang’s private Bill to upgrade the Shariah courts,...
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Lufthansa pilots strike for 4th day, 137 flights canceled
BERLIN (AP) — Pilots at Lufthansa are staging a fourth consecutive day of strikes against the German airline on Saturday, with chances of an immediate resolution to the pay dispute looking slim after their union rejected a new offer from the company.
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IGP: Maria won’t be abused in detention
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 ― Police will not mistreat Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah while she is detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012, or Sosma, Inspector-General...
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Charlie Sheen selling bachelor pad for $9 million
The actor has reportedly put his mansion on the market for almost $2 million (£1.6 million) more than he originally paid for it.
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Australia banks admit to Malaysian ringgit cartel
Australian banks ANZ and Macquarie on Friday agreed to pay Aus$15 million (US$11 million) in fines for trying to manipulate the benchmark rate of the Malaysian ringgit. ANZ admitted to 10 instances of attempted cartel conduct and Macquarie to eight relating to setting the daily rates for derivative instruments linked to Malaysia's currency in 2011. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said both banks had cooperated with their investigation, with ANZ agreeing to a Aus$9 million penalty and Macquarie Aus$6 million.
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