Marcos’ ‘existential battle’ with Sara Duterte intensifies in Philippines

South China Morning Post - Sep 23, 2026

The Philippine ⁠Senate, sitting as an impeachment ⁠court, on Wednesday lowered the number of votes needed to convict Vice-President Sara Duterte, reducing the threshold prosecutors must clear to secure a guilty verdict. The court ruled that only ‌senator-judges able to take part in the trial should be counted when determining the threshold for conviction. Four of the 24 senator-judges have been unable to take part in the proceedings and cannot vote. The decision means prosecutors now need 14...

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Singapore police help Meta dismantle 3.7 million scam-linked accounts and pages
Sep 23, 2026

Singapore police help Meta dismantle 3.7 million scam-linked accounts and pages

Meta has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year based on information provided by the Singapore police, the company said Wednesday.

Beatings, electric shocks, sexual violence: women endure torture in Myanmar prisons
Sep 23, 2026

Beatings, electric shocks, sexual violence: women endure torture in Myanmar prisons

Female prisoners in Myanmar are subjected to widespread torture, sexual violence and life-threatening medical neglect, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, underlining the chronic ill-treatment of thousands of detainees in the war-torn nation. Since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup, a protracted civil war ‌has gripped the impoverished Southeast Asian nation, devastating several regions and killing about 100,000 while displacing more than 3.5 million. In a report, the New...

Fahmi: Govt comms team 'depressed' by hateful social media comments
Sep 23, 2026

Fahmi: Govt comms team 'depressed' by hateful social media comments

The problem is that they feel that we must do everything, says minister.

Malaysia’s local acts feel left out of live music boom: ‘missing middle’
Sep 23, 2026

Malaysia’s local acts feel left out of live music boom: ‘missing middle’

Kuala Lumpur is making it easier and cheaper to bring international music stars to the city, hoping that a bigger concert calendar can help Malaysia capture more of Southeast Asia’s booming live-music economy. But as more global acts come to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian musicians are asking whether the concert boom is creating more opportunities for local artists too. Fuad Alhabshi of Malaysian rock band Kyoto Protocol said local bands once routinely benefited when major international acts came...

HCMC road map to switch to electric vehicles not feasible, experts warn
Sep 23, 2026

HCMC road map to switch to electric vehicles not feasible, experts warn

Many experts argue that Ho Chi Minh City's proposed road map to control traffic emissions is hasty and difficult to practically implement.

Top Vietnamese leader makes suggestions for managing global change at UNGA 81
Sep 23, 2026

Top Vietnamese leader makes suggestions for managing global change at UNGA 81

Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam has proposed four major orientations to steer and manage change so that competition does not turn into confrontation, differences do not lead to conflict, and scientific – technological progress does not create new divisions.

Tunku Nadzaruddin audience cancelled, lawyer claims blockaded by police
Sep 23, 2026

Tunku Nadzaruddin audience cancelled, lawyer claims blockaded by police

UPDATED 1.45PM | Meeting with N Sembilan MB, exco, was scheduled to take place at 9am.

Malaysia’s Anwar faces political reckoning in Melaka as state calls for poll
Sep 23, 2026

Malaysia’s Anwar faces political reckoning in Melaka as state calls for poll

Melaka on Wednesday officially called for a state election – the latest test for Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government, which is already facing an internal feud and growing public frustration over failed reforms. The state assembly was dissolved effective from Wednesday following an official notification sent to the country’s Election Commission the previous day by Ibrahim Durum, the Melaka state assembly’s speaker. “A state election will be held within 60 days of the dissolution...

Most Singaporeans ready to let AI agents shop for them with more safeguards: study
Sep 23, 2026

Most Singaporeans ready to let AI agents shop for them with more safeguards: study

Singaporeans are among the most open to allowing an artificial intelligence agent to shop for them, but they also want the strictest guard rails, research shows. The latest agentic AI study from Global Payments released on Wednesday indicates the hoops agentic AI will need to jump through to be trusted to make purchases without human intervention. The study, which surveyed seven countries including the United States, China and the United Kingdom, found 59 per cent of Singaporeans are open to an...

Why small quakes in Malaysia’s Sabah are sounding seismic alarms
Sep 23, 2026

Why small quakes in Malaysia’s Sabah are sounding seismic alarms

A series of small earthquakes beneath Keningau, an inland district of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, is drawing attention to a part of the state where scientists say the fault lines are poorly understood and the consequences of a larger quake could be devastating. The latest, a magnitude 3.4 tremor on September 3, was felt in several parts of Keningau, prompting staff at the district office to suspend a meeting and move to a designated safe area. No serious damage was reported. The tremor was one of...

Apax Leaders English school boss accused of $295M fraud
Sep 23, 2026

Apax Leaders English school boss accused of $295M fraud

Nguyen Ngoc Thuy, who ran English language school Apax Leaders, is accused of appropriating VND7.677 trillion (US$295 million) from more than 10,000 people and bribing a business partner to fake his company's revenue.

Singapore's top university loses chemistry chief to year-old Chinese school
Sep 23, 2026

Singapore's top university loses chemistry chief to year-old Chinese school

Lu Yixin, head of chemistry at the National University of Singapore, will join China's Eastern Institute of Technology in January 2027, the second senior academic to leave Singapore for the school in six weeks.

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