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HANOI: Police have temporarily detained and launched criminal proceedings against former Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Tran Viet Thai for the charge of "abusing position and power while performing duties", Vietnam news agency (VNA)…

AMAZON.com Inc's layoffs will now stretch to more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday. The layoff decisions, which Amazon will…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died on Thursday at the age of 82. Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein…

GENEVA: At least 115 media workers have been killed in 29 countries around the world this year, a 45% increase compared to last year, say the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). Ukraine and Mexico were the most dangerous countries…

JAKARTA, Indonesia: Indonesia's Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage and insulting the president and state institutions. Once in force, the bans will affect foreign visitors as well as citizens. They're…

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesia is setting out its plans and concept for the digital rupiah, a blockchain-based currency, starting with transactions between local banks. The so-called "Project Garuda” -- named after the mythical bird -- is…

MOSCOW: Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu says the person who left an explosive device in Istanbul on Sunday has been detained, reported Sputnik, quoting TRT World public broadcaster. An explosion occurred on the pedestrian tourist…

United Nations, United States -The world is holding its breath over the possibility that North Korea might undertake a nuclear bomb test, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday. "Everybody is holding…

SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk completed his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter late yesterday and his first move was to fire the social media company’s top leadership, which he accused of misleading him over the number of spam accounts on the…

HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong Customs has arrested two men involved in one of the city’s largest money-laundering cases ever. The case involved dealing in eight tonnes of mainly gold and palladium valued at about HK$3.5bil (RM2bil) over…