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Fears grow for India’s missing coffee king
BANGALORE: Indian police on Tuesday launched a major hunt for coffee tycoon V.G. Siddhartha, amid mounting fears for the billionaire who admitted in a letter before disappearing that he had “failed as an entrepreneur”. The founder of the Cafe Coffee
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Malaysia, India’s new top palm oil supplier
MUMBAI: Malaysia is set to replace Indonesia as the top palm oil supplier to India in 2019 as New Delhi has been charging lower import tax on refined palm oil shipments from Malaysia, giving Kuala Lumpur an edge over Jakarta,
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HK charges 44 for rioting, new protests erupt
HONG KONG: Hundreds of people surrounded a police station in Hong Kong yesterday chanting “free the martyrs” after 44 activists were charged with rioting following weekend clashes between protesters and police defending China’s representative office. It was the first time
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India’s Parliament votes to outlaw ‘triple talaq’
NEW DELHI: India’s Parliament approved a Bill on yesterday outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife, drawing accusations of government interference in a community matter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist administration has been
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Hong Kong protesters disrupt train services, cause commuter chaos
HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters blocked train services during the early morning rush hour on Tuesday, causing commuter chaos in the latest anti-government campaign to roil the former British colony. What started three months ago as rallies against
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Bank of Japan hints at more easing if inflation sputters, keeps policy steady
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan held off on expanding stimulus on Tuesday but signaled its readiness to do so “without hesitation” if a global slowdown jeopardizes the country’s economic recovery. Growing fallout from the U.S.-China trade war has prompted major
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Singapore to stop production of ‘Sling’ LNG price indices
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Energy Market Company (EMC) will stop producing and publishing price indices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the city-state known as ‘Sling’, the company said in an undated statement on its website. EMC said Sling – short for
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17 killed in Pakistani military aircraft crash
ISLAMABAD:A Pakistani military aircraft on a training flight crashed in a built-up area in the city of Rawalpindi, killing all five crew members and 12 civilians, a statement from the army’s communications wing said on Tuesday. Another 12 civilians were
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Sephora’s Asia Pacific online customers hit by data breach
SINGAPORE: Sephora’s customers who have online accounts with the cosmetics and beauty products retailer were alerted yesterday to a data breach discovered by the company in the last fortnight. In an email sent out to its customers in the Asia-Pacific
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India receives double whammy from Interpol over Zakir Naik
PUCHONG: In a double whammy blow to the Indian government, the Interpol Commission not only rejected its red notice application, but also ruled that the information on Indian Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik should be deleted from Interpol’s system. In
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