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LONDON: Britain’s government vehemently denied on Monday (Oct 13) that it helped scupper a high-profile case involving two men accused of spying for China, as it comes under pressure over its stance towards Beijing.Charges against Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, were dropped last month, two years after they were arrested on allegations of collecting information which could be “useful to an enemy”.Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government covets Chinese investment to spur a struggling economy and is pondering a request from Beijing to build a controversial new embassy building in London.The Sunday Times newspaper reported this weekend that national…
TOKYO: Japan does not plan to recognise a Palestinian state at UN meetings this month,…
Mobs ransacked government offices, set fire to a newly opened Hilton hotel and attacked other…
BANGKOK: Thailand’s government plans to decrease borrowing by 7.8 per cent to about 2.37 trillion…
Under Malaysia’s Federal Constitution, the federal government is authorised to collect tax from income, profits,…
BEIJING: Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent US$294,000 on training its R1 model, much…
A flood control project intended to remedy the issue, like so many identified in recent…
Indian comedian Robo Shankar died on Thursday (Sep 18), days after being admitted into the…
JAKARTA: A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province on Friday (Sep…
SYDNEY: Asian shares are set to end a big central week in positive territory, buoyed…
ASEAN REMAINS COMMITTED TO MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEMFor those who continue to support the WTO’s multilateral…
HOMELAND FOCUS?In a separate but related development, the draft of a new National Defense Strategy…
SINGAPORE: When Xiao first walked out of prison in August, after spending nearly a decade…
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