[ad_1] WELLINGTON: A New Zealand Maori leader who was expelled from parliament this week for refusing to wear a tie in the chamber said that forcing him to follow a Western dress code was a violation of his rights and an attempt to suppress indigenous culture. On Tuesday (February 9), …
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[ad_1] Protesters returned to the streets of Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, on Wednesday (February 10) after the most violent day yet in demonstrations against a coup that halted a tentative transition to democracy under the elected leadership Aung San Suu Kyi. The United States and the United Nations condemned …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Bitcoin hit a record high on Tuesday (February 9), approaching the $ 50,000 mark (Singapore $ 66,300), basking in the glow of Elon Musk-led Tesla investment in the cryptocurrency in which Investors believed it could become a mainstream asset class. The most popular cryptocurrency has …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The United States distanced itself on Tuesday (February 9) from a theory propagated by former President Donald Trump that COVID-19 came from a Chinese laboratory and expressed support for the WHO researchers. A World Health Organization mission to China said on Tuesday it had been unable to find …
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[ad_1] YANGON: Myanmar’s military raided the Yangon headquarters of the party of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi late on Tuesday (February 9), officials said, as the United States joined the UN in “forcefully” condemning violence against the protesters demanding a return to democracy. The latest assault on Myanmar’s civilian …
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[ad_1] YANGON: Myanmar’s state television reported on Tuesday (February 9) injuries to police during attempts to disperse protesters who it said were acting aggressively, in their first recognition of the demonstrations taking place in the country. MRTV on its nightly news said that a police truck had been destroyed at …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A 13-year-old boy was among 316 people arrested for his alleged involvement in loan-robbery activities, police said in a press release on Tuesday (February 9). They were detained in simultaneous raids across the island during a three-week operation that ended Sunday. Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department and …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A 41-year-old Singapore Airlines (SIA) cabin crew member who was on a flight back to the United Arab Emirates is the fifth person on that plane to have tested positive for the coronavirus. All five also tested positive for the most infectious B117 strain of the coronavirus, …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The World Economic Forum (WEF) team, including its founder and CEO Klaus Schwab, are in Singapore to prepare for the Special Annual Meeting in August. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (February 9), Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said that he had an extensive discussion with …
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[ad_1] BEIJING – Experts from the World Health Organization and China have quashed the controversial theory that the coronavirus had leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, suggesting instead that the Covid-19 virus likely infected humans from an intermediate animal host. The possibility that Covid-19 could have resulted from a laboratory incident …
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