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China’s growing involvement in Malaysia has been praised and panned in recent years. The Sunday Times looks at how its widening presence is drawing increasing attention in the first of a two-part series. Tomorrow, why
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Malaysia’s decision to scrap the sale of a 60 per cent stake in its signature Bandar Malaysia project to a Malaysia-China consortium came as a rude shock, with the fallout set to spread from the
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A key suspect, who is the aunt of a female doctor allegedly connected to a bogus tourism company, turned herself in to police on Tuesday, insisting she was also a victim of the fraud. Phongphan
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KRABI: A Chinese tourist drowned on Tuesday after attempting to take underwater photos at a national park in Krabi. At about 4pm, Jampen Pormpakdee, chief of the Koh Hong protection zone at Than Bok Khorani
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More questions have been raised about Malaysia’s Forest City project for buyers from China, following Beijing’s introduction of tighter rules to stem the flight of capital from the country. The developer, Country Garden, had reportedly
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Claims that two women accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Kuala Lumpur rehearsed the hit in Phnom Penh have added another unwanted twist to Cambodia’s long history as a playground for the
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States and China are finalising plans for a summit between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago this April, but diplomats are struggling to remove last-minute stumbling blocks. Officials
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Singapore and China have signed four cooperation pacts, including one for each of the three government-led projects, a day after inking 15 agreements on mainly commercial deals. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and Chinese
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Businesses at Chinese New Year festive bazaars have been hit this year by a triple whammy – wet weather, a poor economic outlook and the festival’s proximity to the Gregorian new year. Mr Ang Cheng
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Hong Kong arrested 29 current and former staff of five financial institutions, including four banks, for alleged bribery connected with obtaining confidential customer information to market personal loans, the city’s anti-graft agency said. Operation “Mirabilis”
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U.S. elections are hardly just about Americans. The U.S. economy, particularly its masses of moneyed consumers, touches scores of other countries and although it’s an old cliche, America is seen as a world police officer.
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A Hong Kong jury was told on Friday about the rapid descent of a “superman” British investment banker to a “depraved drug and alcohol addict” when he killed two Indonesian women in his upmarket flat. Rurik
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Iranian companies are interested in contributing to the construction of a massive canal across Nicaragua that a Chinese company is to build, Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said Wednesday. Representatives of private Iranian construction companies
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Any tourist not afraid of heights must rejoice! China finally opened the long awaited Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge. Announced in 2012, construction of the skywalk began in late November 2014. Designed by Israeli architect
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SINGAPORE: Three former Tisch Asia students have filed a class action lawsuit against New York University (NYU) over its now-defunct Singapore art school, saying that they were victims of an “educational scam”. According to court
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PHUKET: South East Asia’s inaugural Wyndham Grand location will debut in Phuket later this year, thanks to a management agreement recently signed between Parisorn Company Ltd and the Wyndham Hotel Group. Wyndham Grand Phuket Kalim
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A mosquito repellent that started off as a concoction mixed in one man’s kitchen has become such a hit that hotels and businesses have placed orders for it. The brain behind the product, however, is
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Heritage officials have launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for restoration work on the Great Wall of China. More than 16,000 people have donated online since the campaign started at the end of August, raising
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A Chinese airline has reportedly warned passengers that “precautions” should be taken when visiting areas in London mainly populated by “Indians, Pakistanis and black people”. Air China included the comments as part of a feature
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BEIJING/MANILA (AFP, Reuters) – China warned its rivals Wednesday (July 13) against turning the South China Sea into a “cradle of war” and threatened an air defence zone there, after its claims to the strategically
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