A fugitive Vietnamese businesswoman was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Thursday, her second sentence in absentia as the country’s communist authorities push on with an anti-corruption purge. Nguyen…
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Hamas and their Human Meat Shields
London, Dublin (1/11 – 66) Hamas is sheltered in a sea of civilians. Ostensibly a Palestinian political and military organization established in 1987, Hamas “governs” on the basis of having…
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Cosmetic ‘Surgeon’ at Da Nang Salon Has Only High School Degree
by Iam Sannby Iam SannA person at a Da Nang beauty parlor has performed breast augmentation surgeries on customers despite only finishing high school and not having any degree or certification for such procedures.…
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France Faces Fake Bomb Threats Following Stabbing of School Teacher in Arras
Frankfurt, Brussels (30/10 – 30) The French authorities have opened 64 different investigations into bomb threats, targeting airports, schools and museums, following the murder of a teacher by a terrorist…
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A beauty queen in the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province has been arrested for allegedly tricking a man in a land sale, stealing VND1.8 billion ($74,120) from him. Pham Thi…
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Canadian lawyer allegedly tied to major fraud case joins new NOC program office
by Long Nisayby Long NisayLibya’s state-owned oil company, the National Oil Corporation (NOC), had established last month a new program office, but multiple foreign press reports claim that one of the staff running the office…
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More than 50 officials have gone on trial in Vietnam for alleged corruption over repatriation flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, a scandal that has seen several senior ministers fired. The…
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Singapore Arrests Cabinet Minister in Top-level Corruption Probe
by Jay Akaraby Jay AkaraSingapore’s transport minister has been arrested in connection with a rare top-level corruption investigation that has also ensnared a billionaire hotel tycoon, the country’s anti-graft body has said. S Iswaran,…
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In the fractured authority surrounding crime-group controlled enclaves on the Moei River separating Thailand and Myanmar, this is what a crackdown on armed gangsters looks like: China presses Myanmar’s military…