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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will hand over the premiership to anointed successor Lawrence Wong by next November, entrusting his deputy to lead the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) into the next general election. Speaking at a party convention on Sunday, both referred to one marker of the much-talked a…
Two years into his 25-year sentence for attempted aggravated rape, Nathan Brown could tell the man sitting across from him — a jailhouse lawyer improbably named Lawyer Winfield — was not going to help him get out of prison. It was astounding to Brown that he was pinning his hopes on a fellow inmate who had an eighth…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of now-defunct crypto exchange platform FTX, was convicted on seven charges in one of the world’s biggest financial fraud cases. He was accused of mishandling company funds and siphoning away money out of greed. A total of US$8 billion went missing last year, following FTX’s collapse. …
Japan’s top court ruled on October 25, 2023, that a legal clause requiring people to undergo sterilisation surgery if they want to legally change their gender was unconstitutional. The clause was one of five requirements transgender people need to meet in order to officially change their gender. But the top court de…
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Japan’s prime minister has pledged to cut household income tax to compensate for the rising cost of living. In his speech at the start of the new parliamentary session on October 23, 2023, Fumio Kishida said his administration intends to pull the economy permanently out of stagnation. His comments came as his ruling…
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India’s Supreme Court has declined to legalise same-sex marriage in the country. The decision, which was handed down on October 17, 2023, recognised the right of LGBTQ couples to choose their partners, but declined to do so for same-sex unions, saying that it was a decision for India’s parliament. It was the country…
The party guests who arrived on the evening of June 23, 2022, at the Tudor-style mansion on the coast of Maine were a special group in a special place enjoying a special time. The attendees included some two dozen federal and state judges — a gathering that required U.S. marshals with earpieces to stand watch while …
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Prominent Thai activist and lawyer Arnon Nampa was sentenced to four years in prison on September 26, 2023, for what a court judge said were "royal insults". Nampa was convicted under Thailand’s tough lèse-majesté law over a 2020 speech he made in Bangkok at the height of street demonstrations by the youth-led pro-d…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Russia on September 12, 2023, in his dark green bulletproof train, as seen from video released by Russian officials. Kim has been travelling by train for every state visit since becoming leader in 2011. A former North Korean official explained why Pyongyang’s ruling Kim fam…
Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa was acquitted on September 12, 2023, of the last of five tax evasion charges against her. The verdict was another legal victory for the veteran journalist in a case that has dragged on for nearly five years. A staunch critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte, Ressa and the new…
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Slum-dwellers in New Delhi’s Janta Camp have been evicted from their homes as the Indian government gears up to host the G20 summit on September 9, 2023, at a venue some 500 metres away from the site. Scores of people have been rendered homeless over months despite an appeal to the Delhi High Court, which ruled the …
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Foxconn founder Terry Gou announced on August 28, 2023, that he will join the Taiwan presidential race. The head of the Taiwanese tech giant will run as an independent candidate after he failed to clinch the nomination from the main opposition Kuomintang party, which chose Mayor Hou Yu-ih instead. The billionaire bu…
Singapore’s presidential hopeful Tharman Shanmugaratnam says voters can count on him to act with “independence of mind”, but should not see the presidency as “an alternative power centre” to the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP).
As a special consultant to Colorado’s child welfare agency, Susan Coykendall accepted that there was no reliable profile for a child abuser, but she was fairly certain Bruce was not one.
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North Korea issued a statement on July 9, 2023, condemning the UN nuclear watchdog for approving Tokyo's plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Japan is planning to release at least 1.2 million tonnes of nuclear-tainted water into the Pacific some time in the summer, citing a recent Intern…
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