Asean Observer

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has been gripped by the mystery of whether a woman has, as has been claimed, actually given birth to 10 babies, in what would then be the world’s first recorded case of decuplets.Gosiame Thamara Sithole from the Tembisa town…

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia have been confirmed a wildcard slot for shooting at next month’s Tokyo Olympics, with experienced shooter Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi the most likely to be picked.National Shooting Association of Malaysia (NSAM) executive secretar…

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) is collaborating with e-commerce giant Amazon Global Selling to jointly promote Malaysian-made products to a global audience.In a statement Thursday, MATRADE chief executive offic…

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia has been chosen by Austria-headquartered AT&S, a global manufacturing leader of high-end printed circuit boards (PCBs) and integrated circuit (IC) substrates, as the site for its first production plant in Southeast Asia.The faci…

KUALA LUMPUR— Prime Minister Muhyidddin Yassin has arrived at the Istana Negara Wednesday for an audience with the Malaysian King Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.Muhyiddin’s official vehicle was seen enterin…

GENEVA— Even as the pandemic raged and economies around the world were devastated, nuclear-armed countries last year increased spending on atomic weapon arsenals by 1.4 billion dollars, campaigners said.In a fresh report, the International Campaign to …

BANGKOK— Three Myanmar senior journalists and two activists who faced deportation after being charged and sentenced for illegal entry into Thailand have been granted asylum by an unnamed third country, according to their employer.The journalists workin…

TOKYO– Many schools in Japan’s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa began temporarily closing yesterday, in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 among young people, the prefectural government said.According to the local government in Okinawa, the clo…

On 6 June 2021 at 6.06am, the Police responded to a case of assault at a residential unit along 2 Jalan Bukit Merah Road. Police officers who were patrolling in the vicinity were approached by a 59-year-old woman with blood-stained hands at the ground …

The Police have arrested three men, aged between 28 and 44, for their suspected involvement in the smuggling of duty-unpaid cigarettes.On 15 May 2021 at around midnight, officers from the Police Coast Guard (PCG) conducted a check on a Singapore-regist…