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(Reuters) — The United States and South Korea on Wednesday (September 9) conducted a joint biological defense exercise, called “Able Response 15”, in a bid to improve their capabilities to deter possible biological attacks. The exercise is aimed at checking the combined response system and to enhance alliance between the two armies, the South Korean defence ministry said. “The purpose of today’s FTX (Field Training Exercise) is to enhance R.O.K (Republic of Korea) – […]
SEOUL, South Korea, September 9 (Reuters) — The United States and South Korea on Wednesday (September 9) conducted a joint biological defense exercise, called “Able Response 15”, in a bid to improve their capabilities to deter possible biological attacks. The exercise is aimed at checking the combined response system and to enhance alliance between the two armies, the South Korean defense ministry said. “The purpose of today’s FTX (Field Training Exercise) is to enhance R.O.K […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, September 9 (Reuters) — Thai police on Wednesday (September 9) took a second arrested suspect to areas near the blast scene to perform a reconstruction of moments before and after the Bangkok blast incident that killed at least 20 people last month. Under police interrogation, one of two foreigners in detention admitted to delivering a rucksack to the bomber at Bangkok’s main railway station on the evening of the Aug. 17 attack, two […]
SEOUL, September 8 (Reuters) — Families torn apart by the Korean War six decades ago are to reunite briefly near the heavily fortified border of North and South Korea next month under a deal reached between the two sides on Tuesday (September 8), according to a statement from the South. “With regard to the reunions of the separated families, we agreed to hold the reunions from October 20 to 26 at Mount Kumgang. And the […]
SEPTEMBER 7 (CCTV) — China’s stock market has stabilized and risks have been released to some extent, the securities regulator said Sunday. Market transactions are currently normal for the most part, with liquidity being relatively abundant and innate stability being improved, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). China securities regulator also said to deepen reforms, improve legal framework and enhance market supervision, by possibly introducing mechanisms such as a stock index circuit breaker system, in […]
(Reuters) — An overloaded wooden boat believed to be carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants sank off the coast of Malaysia on Thursday (September 3), killing at least 14 people, 13 of them women, maritime officials said. The boat had left Sabak Bernam in Malaysia’s Selangor state and was heading for Sumatra in Indonesia when the accident happened. Muhammad Aliyas Hamdan, First Admiral at the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, said fifteen passengers had been rescued by […]
Thai police spokesman, Prawut Thawornsiri, on Thursday (September 3) said the suspect who was arrested in the Eastern Sakaeo Province early in the week was found with a list of substances that could be use to make a bomb. “The suspect arrested from Sakaeo, (was found with) what appears to be a recipe used to create a bomb. Right now, we have sent that to an expert to confirm whether this was a bomb recipe […]
(Reuters) — Police said they had made significant progress on Wednesday (September 2) towards finding the mastermind of Thailand’s deadliest attack after an arrested man admitted being near the August 17 shrine blast and fingerprints tied him to the room of a suspected bomber. The unidentified man arrested less than a kilometre from the Cambodian border on Tuesday (September 1) had told police he was not the bomber, but was in same area the […]
SEPT. 1 (Reuters) — Thai police arrested a second foreign suspect in the country’s deadliest bombing on Tuesday (September 1) and said they believed he played an important role in the August 17 blast that ripped through a Hindu shrine in Bangkok, killing 20 people and injuring more than 100.Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesman, Winthai Suvaree said the suspect “resembled the yellow-shirt male seen in CCTV footage near the blasted shrine. […]
SEPT. 2 (Reuters) — North Koreans on Tuesday (September 1) welcomed news that North and South Korea had reached an agreement a week ago at high-level talks. Video provided to Reuters by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed North Koreans expressing their pleasure to hear an agreement had been reached. “I felt the pride of a North Korean who holds the dear respected leader Kim Jong Un in high […]
(Reuters) — Malaysian protesters woke on Sunday (August 30) and prepared for the second day of an anti-government rally which saw thousands take to the streets the day before. Nearly 5000 people spend the night outside, protest organisers Bersih estimated as part of protests calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down. Protesters gathered near Independence square on Sunday, which remains blocked off, and started their day with physical exercises while others attended […]
(Reuters)– Thousands of protesters gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday (August 29) for a two-day rally to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak, bringing to the streets a political crisis over a multi-million-dollar payment made to an account under his name. The Malaysian leader has weathered weeks of attacks since it was reported that investigators probing the management of debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) had discovered the unexplained transfer of […]
