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Thailand moves closer to introducing wealth tax with new asset tracking capabilities
BANGKOK, Jan 18 — Thailand is now closer to implementing a wealth tax, Finance Permanent Secretary Lavaron Sangsnit said today, citing recent developments that make it possible to track the assets of the country’s wealthiest individuals, even those held abroad.
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What’s behind the Gaza ceasefire deal? Key details explained
JERUSALEM, Jan 18 — International mediators said this week that 33 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza would be released in the first stage of a ceasefire deal for the Palestinian territory agreed with Israel. In return, Israel is to
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First phase of Gaza ceasefire deal: Israel to free 737 Palestinian prisoners, hostages starting tomorrow
JERUSALEM, Jan 18 — Israel’s justice ministry has said 737 prisoners and detainees will be freed as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal approved Saturday. It said in a statement on its website
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Two judges shot dead at Iran’s Supreme Court
TEHRAN, Jan 18 — Two judges were killed in a shooting attack today at the Supreme Court building in Tehran, state media reported. “This morning, a gunman infiltrated the Supreme Court in a planned act of assassination of two brave
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America’s First Family moves back in
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 — Donald Trump’s family will likely be less formally involved in White House business in his second term as they were in the first, but some will remain key to his political operation as unofficial advisors. Here
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High Court dismisses widow’s claim to remove eldest daughter as co-owner of their HDB flat
SINGAPORE, Jan 18 — An elderly woman who sought to have her eldest daughter removed as a joint tenant of their HDB flat — claiming she had been misled and didn’t fully understand what she was signing — had her
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In Singapore, Malaysian tenant jailed for secretly filming landlady, daughter for at least seven years
SINGAPORE, Jan 18 — A Malaysian tenant who lived with a family in Singapore for nearly a decade has been sentenced to 19 months in jail for voyeurism and insulting modesty, Mothership reported today. The 40-year-old aerospace machine operator was caught in
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Plastic chairs fly during nine-person brawl at Ang Mo Kio coffee shop, three arrested
SINGAPORE, Jan 18 — Three men have been arrested for affray following a violent altercation in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore late last night. According to The Straits Times, the incident occurred outside a coffee shop at 181 Ang Mo Kio Avenue
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Accountant loses nearly half a million in Bitcoin scam promising RM5.5m returns
JOHOR BAHRU, Jan 18 — An elderly woman suffered a loss of RM460,888 after falling victim to a Bitcoin investment scheme that promised lucrative returns. Seri Alam District police chief, ACP Mohd Sohaimi Ishak, said the woman, a 61-year-old accountant,
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Tangkak drug suspect who escaped police custody captured in Kluang
TANGKAK, Jan 18 — A 38-year-old drug suspect who escaped custody from the Tangkak district police headquarters last Wednesday has been rearrested in Kluang this morning. Tangkak police chief Superintendent Roslan Mohd Talib said the suspect, identified as Mohd Saifulnizam
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