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Malay MailAs more Malaysians live away from their elderly parents, the demand for ‘paid companions’ grows
IPOH, Sept 8 — Retired teacher Marie Quah used to go to the Taiping Hospital for her medical appointments on her own. B...
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A missing newlywed nurse has been found dead – and her neighbor arrested
Three days after a just-married Oregon nurse was reported missing, she has been found dead and police have arrested one of her neighbors.
- Malay Mail
PM Anwar: Teresa Kok’s halal certification comments spark unnecessary controversy
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — A recent statement by Seputeh MP Teresa Kok on halal certification does not reflect the position...
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Newly released footage shows Sonya Massey talking with police hours before deadly shooting
Police released new bodycam footage of Sonya Massey speaking with officers hours before she was fatally shot by a Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy. Massey’s mother had called 911 because she was worried her daughter was having a ‘mental health crisis.’
- Malay Mail
Fresh cracks emerge after Puchong embankment collapse; Fire Dept points to ground movement as possible cause
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — The collapse of a pond embankment at the construction site for the Sungai Rasau Water Supply Sche...
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Who is the real Alice Guo? Fugitive mayor accused of spying for China faces legal reckoning after weeks on the run
For months, millions of people were glued to their TV screens as a slight, bespectacled young woman was grilled by lawmakers in the Philippines for hours at a time about her origin story
- The Independent
Police arrest man accused of filming rape on crowded street in India
Latest incident comes in the wake of widespread protests against last month’s rape and murder of a resident doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital
- Associated Press
Villagers reluctant to say goodbye to one of Hong Kong's last squatter settlements
In months, Lo Yuet-ping will bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite buildings, contrasting sharply with the high-rise structures that dominate much of the Asian financial hub. “I'm unwilling to part with anything,” said Lo, who expects to be relocated to a newer district of east Kowloon.
- Malay Mail
Singaporean rants on TikTok about clash with immigration officers after detainment at Johor checkpoint for filming in restricted area
JOHOR BARU, Sept 8 — A 36-year-old Singaporean woman was detained for several days at the Johor Baru checkpoint after sh...
- People
Father of Georgia School Shooter Told Police in Newly Released 2023 Audio That ‘Greatest Day’ Was When Son Killed 1st Deer
Colin Gray, 54, and his 14-year-old son Colt Gray, both face charges in connection with the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.
- The Telegraph
My father is worst sexual predator of the last 20 years, daughter tells rape trial
The daughter of a French pensioner accused of enlisting more than 70 men to rape his drugged wife has called her father the worst sexual predator in the past 20 years.
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Mother of mass shooting suspect called Apalachee High School with warning after getting alarming text, grandfather says
The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a Georgia school shooting called to warn a school counselor prior to the shooting, the suspect’s aunt and grandfather said Saturday.
- Malay Mail
Bersatu Youth chief demands Teresa Kok apologise for ‘superficial conclusion’ on halal certs as debate grows
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal wants Seputeh MP Teresa Kok to apologise to...
- Malay Mail
After cops confirm probe over halal cert remark, DAP says Teresa Kok just doing job as MP
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — DAP has insisted today that its MP Teresa Kok did nothing wrong when expressing her concerns over...
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British couple plan to die in double ‘suicide capsule’ at Swiss clinic
Peter and Christine Scott, from Suffolk, made the decision after she was recently diagnosed with early-stage vascular dementia
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Video footage appears to show Russians killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers
The troops stagger onto a dusty track, then onto their knees, hands placed on their heads. Seconds later, the Ukrainian drone footage shows, they lie motionless.
- Malay Mail
PM Anwar addresses personal vendetta claims: I dislike being in prison and seeing others there too
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has denied allegations that his personal vendetta is behind the actions...
- Reuters
Ethnic violence in India's Manipur escalates, six killed
Six people, including one civilian, were killed as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur on Saturday, authorities said. The majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis have clashed sporadically since last year after a court ordered the state government to consider extending special economic benefits and quotas in government jobs and education enjoyed by the Kukis to the Meiteis as well. "Fighting has been going on between armed groups of both the communities since the morning," said Krishna Kumar, deputy commissioner of the state's Jiribam district where the clash occurred.
- Associated Press
A Filipino preacher on the run from sexual abuse charges has been arrested
A Filipino preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking in the Philippines and similar charges in the United States has been captured, officials said Sunday. Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos announced the arrest of Apollo Quiboloy in a brief statement on his Facebook account but did not provide other details. Philippine police chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil confirmed Quiboloy’s arrest also without elaborating.
- AFP News
Child abuse scandals hang over pope's East Timor visit
When Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff to visit an independent East Timor, he will confront a clergy beset by child abuse scandals that have been largely ignored by the deeply Catholic country's freedom heroes.Catholic-majority East Timor is one of many countries that has suffered the global scourge of child abuse by members of the clergy long veiled in secrecy.