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Philippines President-elect Marcos Jnr chooses stability in naming new cabinet to revive economy and restore family name
by Raissa Robles on 29. mai 2022 at 10:00
Marcos Jnr announced the current central bank chief, Benjamin Diokno as the new finance secretary to help revive the pandemic-hit economy that is US$19.1 billion in debt.
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Philippines: 7 missing after boat collision
by Agence France-Presse on 29. mai 2022 at 09:36
Rescuers searching waters after a fishing vessel and cargo ship collided; 13 of the 20 crew members were picked up by another boat.
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Coronavirus: in Singapore, aviation jobs are up for grabs as tourism in the city state rebounds
by Bloomberg on 29. mai 2022 at 07:59
Job losses and pay cuts hit aviation workers hard, and many have switched to less volatile careers, resulting in a lack of manpower to handle the recovery.
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Nepal plane with 22 people on board missing in mountains
by Agence France-Presse on 29. mai 2022 at 07:20
The Twin Otter aircraft with 19 passengers and three crew members took off from the town of Pokhara at 9:55am but soon lost contact with air traffic control.
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‘I’m not a devious villain’: black men in Japan speak out about racial profiling
by Julian Ryall on 29. mai 2022 at 06:00
Some black men, in the country for years, say they are frequently questioned, which humiliates them and potentially damages their reputations; speaking Japanese helps to alleviate the situation.
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As China’s Wang Yi visits Fiji, Albanese says previous Australian government ‘dropped the ball’ on the Pacific
by Agence France-Presse on 29. mai 2022 at 05:56
Anthony Albanese’s comments come as China undertakes a region-wide diplomatic offensive raising concerns among Western powers.
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Was India’s Taj Mahal a Hindu temple? Only if you believe the revisionist conspiracy theories
by Nilosree Biswas on 29. mai 2022 at 03:30
Nearly 400 years after its construction, the Mughal-era mausoleum and iconic Indian landmark has become the latest target of revisionism in an increasingly polarised country, where a ultranationalist propaganda campaign is being waged against historical truth.
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Coronavirus: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un says pandemic situation controlled and improving
by Associated Press on 29. mai 2022 at 03:23
On Sunday, North Korea reported 89,500 new patients with fever symptoms, taking the country’s total to 3.4 million. It did not say whether there were additional deaths.
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Hong Kong’s Filipino domestic workers take centre stage in New York filmmaker Stefanos Tai’s ‘We Don’t Dance For Nothing’
by Raquel Carvalho on 29. mai 2022 at 00:30
Film shines a light on the challenges faced by Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong, who are often regarded as second-class citizens and sometimes ill-treated by employers.
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Russian oil and Indian money for suffering Sri Lanka
by Agence France-Presse on 28. mai 2022 at 13:36
Around 90,000 tonnes of Siberian light crude will be sent to the country’s only refinery and millions of dollars from India until IMF loan; island nation’s 22 million people suffering worst economic meltdown.