The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said on Monday it had opened a formal investigation into the movement of the elephants – Dara, Amoi and Kelat – from Zoo Taiping in the northern state of Perak to Tennoji Zoo in Osaka.
MACC said it was looking into claims that payments tied to the transfer
A former hospital director in northern China has dedicated over two decades to creating an educational sanctuary for children living with HIV.
Guo Xiaoping, 63, a former director of an infectious diseases hospital in Linfen, Shanxi province, began his mission in 2004 after discovering children in hospital’s Aids ward who had reached school age but lacked access to proper education.
He transformed a ward into a makeshift classroom, where he and the nurses taught Pinyin and multiplication tables.
All the children had contracted HIV at birth
The House of Representatives approved the measure in early June, a rare advance for an anti-dynasty law,
Tokyo’s forces will become ‘more offensive, more dangerous and more oriented towards actual combat’, Chinese military mouthpiece says
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China’s military mouthpiece on Monday warned that the weapons and operational methods seen in Japan’s largest annual live-fire drill symbolised the Self-Defence Force’s acceleration towards offensive capabilities as part
Amap, Didi Chuxing support government’s proposed cap as part of new regulatory regime scheduled to be passed by lawmakers in July
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Keir Starmer announced his intention to step down as Britain’s prime minister on Monday, succumbing to intense party pressure as his popularity plummeted and rivals have manoeuvred to challenge him.
“Every decision I have taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party,” an emotional Starmer said in a short speech outside 10 Downing Street in London.
Starmer, who up until Monday had resisted calls to stand aside, said he would remain caretaker prime minister
The man, who says he hardly knew the schoolmate, has filed a police report and set all his social media accounts to private
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Nicholas Spiro is a partner at Lauressa Advisory, a specialist London-based real estate and macroeconomic advisory firm.
