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The mystery man in Goldman Sachs – 1MDB deal
NEW YORK: Andrea Vella was Goldman Sachs’s top dealmaker in Hong Kong. He had a nose for splashy trades, a fondness for the Bentley Continental, and a vague enough resemblance to George Clooney that there was even a joke among
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Remains of female Singaporean kayaker to be repatriated
CHUKAI: The remains of Puah Geok Tin, the Singaporean woman who went missing while kayaking in Endau waters here on Aug 8, will be repatriated to Singapore today. Her youngest son, Louis Pang, 24, said the post mortem on his
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Deconstructing Dr M’s racist rage against Dong Zong
The Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called Dong Zong (the National Chinese School Committees’ Association) racist because of its opposition to the inclusion of khat in the primary school Bahasa Malaysia curriculum. According to Mahathir, “if the education
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Myanmar activists fight to outlaw domestic violence
YANGON: Cradling her one-year-old daughter in a house in southern Myanmar, 22-year-old Nu Nu Aye recalled the reasons her husband gave for beating her. She had not looked after his rooster. She would not have sex with him. In a
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KLCI struggles to stay above 1,600 level
KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI was put on a roller-coaster ride yesterday after the overnight big equity rout in the US on Wednesday as rising concern over the global economy haunted the equity markets again. The benchmark index dived to
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Job snubs to forced surgery: India’s ‘invisible’ intersex people
BANGALORE: Bullied at school, gang raped as a prostitute and asked about his genitals in job interviews, Daniel Mendonca – like many intersex people in India – has been mistreated all his life. Although the country’s top court officially recognised
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Trump wants talks on trade dispute with China
MORRISTOWN: US President Donald Trump said yesterday that US and Chinese negotiators were holding “productive” trade talks and expected them to meet in September despite US tariffs on over US$125 billion worth of Chinese imports taking effect Sept 1. “September,
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Asia stocks nurse losses, bonds hold huge gains
SYDNEY: Asian shares were heading for weekly losses on Friday as conflicting messages on the Sino-U.S. trade war only added to worries for the global economy, while talk of aggressive central bank stimulus drove bond yields to fresh lows. U.S.
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Israel bars Ilham Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting the nation
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday barred US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from making a planned trip to Israel, shortly after US President Donald Trump called on his ally not to let them in. Tlaib and Omar,
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Facebook failed to warn users of known risks before 2018 breach
CALIFORNIA: Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them about risks tied to its single sign-on tool, even though it protected its employees, a court filing showed. Single
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