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Macau ASEAN Chamber of Commerce delegation visits Thailand amid growing regional collaboration
Macau Daily Times
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June 29, 2025
Heads of MAICC delegation with Thai Deputy Prime Minister in Bangkok, Friday The Macao ASEAN International Chamber of Commerce (MAICC) has embarked on a five-day business mission to Thailand, with scheduled stops in Pattaya and Bangkok. The...
Giant plankton may boost coral resilience amid climate change: Australian study
Xinhua News Agency
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SYDNEY, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Giant plankton known as pyrosomes, may play a crucial role in helping coral reefs withstand the impacts of climate change, a new Australian study has revealed. The new research led by Queensland University of Technology...
Roaming Charges: After Midnight
CounterPunch
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June 27, 2025
B-2 Stealth bomber flying at night. Photo: Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder / U.S. Air Force. After midnight We’re gonna let it all hang out We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about – JJ Cale, After Midnight...
Bridging ASEAN and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Why People-to-People Connectivity Matters
Fulcrum
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June 25, 2025
Cooperation between ASEAN and the Gulf Cooperation Council should be seen not only from the lens of trade investments, but also people-to-people connections. The 2nd ASEAN-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit and the inaugural ASEAN-GCC-China...
World : Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: May 27, 2025
Bernama
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May 27, 2025
CAMBODIA 1.HUN SEN LAUDS TIMOR-LESTE JOINING ASEAN SOON -- FRESH NEWS Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen congratulated Prime Minister of Timor-Leste Kay Rala Xanana GUSMÃO as the country prepares to join ASEAN. A milestone for the Timorese people...
Using AI for Scalable, Accelerated Fraud Detection in Financial Services
Banking Dive
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ASEAN SOMTC focuses on combating 10 cross-border crimes
The Sun Daily
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June 26, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: The 25th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) concluded in Putrajaya after five days of intensive discussions aimed at combating 10 major cross-border crimes affecting the region. The meeting, hosted by...
Ex-world leaders call for ‘powerful shift’ as they warn of extreme inequality
The Guardian
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June 26, 2025
The world is facing a looming crisis of inequality that could see the first trillionaires emerge while nearly half of humanity still languishes in poverty, a group of 40 former presidents and prime ministers warns. In a letter seen by the...
China will be able to navigate around restrictions imposed by others, emerge more resilient: PM Wong
The Business Times Singapore
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June 25, 2025
[BEIJING] Whatever restrictions it may face from other countries, China is likely to find a way around them by developing its own capabilities, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Wednesday (Jun 25). China’s response to increasing geopolitical...
Scholarships for UG, PG, PhD Open in Australia, Check Details
Kashmir Life
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July 8, 2025
SRINAGAR: Charles Darwin University is offering scholarships for international students in Australia for the year 2025. The Scholarships provide a chance to pursue Undergraduate, Master’s, PhD, and vocational education programmes. The CDU...
Extracting value, losing ground: the critical minerals boom in Palawan
New Mandala
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June 13, 2025
As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, patterns of resource extraction and violence are intensifying globally amid skyrocketing demand for the “critical minerals”—including cobalt, lithium, manganese and copper—essential to renewable...
Keir Starmer’s Palestine Action Ban Is a Threat to Democracy
Jacobin
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On Monday of this week, the British home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans to outlaw the campaigning group Palestine Action, placing it in the same legal category as ISIS and Boko Haram. Cooper intends to ram through the proscription...
ASEAN youth unite to call for a sustainable and inclusive future
The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodia youth representatives with Prime Minister Hun Manet and education minister Hang Chuon Naron at the 4th ASEAN Youth Dialogue 2025 in Kuala Lumpur. FB Youth delegates from Cambodia and across the ASEAN region, along with representatives...
BEN MORGAN: Iran. A win for the US?
The Daily Blog
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June 24, 2025
Holy shit look at what NZDF could have been like: Detail structure and equipment for a NZ Defence Force in 2030 if military spending had been constant at 5% GDP since 2015 ChatGPT said: If New Zealand had maintained military spending at 5% of GDP...
'We felt fairly deceived': Failed bakery All Are Welcome owes suppliers thousands
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 25, 2025
Popular hospitality group All Are Welcome owes suppliers thousands of dollars, with question marks over whether this will be paid, after the business closed its doors this month. Tim Williams's business had been supplying the three bakeries in...
Archaeologists Found Ancient Tools That Contradict the Timeline of Civilization
Yahoo News - United Kingdom
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June 7, 2025
Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia were well-versed in boatbuilding and open-sea...
ASEAN must maintain resilience, flexible adaption to changes: Vietnamese PM
VietnamPlus
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May 26, 2025
Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined leaders of ASEAN member countries and Timor-Leste in a closed-door session to discuss international and regional issues on May 26 as part of the 46th ASEAN Summit and Related...
ASEAN must maintain resilience, balance relations with major powers: Vietnamese PM
Vietnam News Agency
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KUALA LUMPUR — Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính joined leaders of ASEAN member countries and Timor-Leste in a retreat session to discuss international and regional issues on Monday as part of the 46th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits in...
Angola proposes former minister Fátima Jardim as new Executive Secretary of the CPLP
Ver Angola
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Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim, a graduate in biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, who was vice-president of the Council of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), representing Africa, a position...
Okonjo-Iweala Gets 2025 Cressey Lifetime Award for Detection, Deterrence of Fraud
This Day
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June 24, 2025
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world’s largest anti-fraud organisation in the United States, has recognised Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the recipient of the 2025 Cressey Award, a prestigious honour...