Asean news headlines as at 9pm on Thursday (June 15)


Students hold class along the hallways because the school was converted into a temporary evacuation centre at Malilipot town, Albay province, northeastern Philippines, on June 15, 2023. Thousands of residents have left the mostly poor farming communities within a 6-km radius of Mayon's crater in forced evacuations since volcanic activity spiked last week. - AP

Malaysia

Court of Appeal grants Rosmah temporary passport release to visit daughter in Singapore

Photo of ‘golden halo’ on Mt Kinabalu goes viral

Missing teen Pakistani sisters found after three weeks in Melaka

Kedah likely to dissolve state govt on June 28

GRS MPs urge Putrajaya to look deeper into Tommy Thomas for letter to 'Sulu heirs'

Selangor MB granted audience with Sultan to get consent to dissolve state legislative assembly

Hamzah’s house raided by LHDN

Dr M made baseless attacks publicly to undermine me, says Anwar

Two M'sian schools shortlisted for World's Best School Prizes 2023

Interpol search will make me even more famous, says Jocelyn Chia

Video of naked 'Malaysian' woman being tortured is fake, says Michael Chong

GrabFood Malaysia’s nationwide expansion cements top food delivery position

Tahfiz teacher charged with sodomising teenage boy

Sarawak has agreed to take over MASWings, says Abang Jo

Online gambling syndicates being protected by politicians, confirms Saifuddin

Singapore

Search continues for missing worker at Tanjong Pagar building collapse site

Five-year-old boy taken to hospital after car crashes into pre-school door

Woman in SG who tortured Myanmar maid to death admits she tried to get rid of surveillance footage

Horse owners, trainers to band as one amid impending Singapore Turf Club closure

Eight arrested in SG over links to mobile phone malware which resulted in unauthorised banking transactions

Police robots to be deployed across Singapore; two now patrolling Changi Airport T4

Air Canada to launch direct Vancouver-Singapore flight in April 2024

17 weeks’ jail for woman who let father take rap for her in traffic accident

Thailand

Serial cyanide killer had accomplice in at least four murders: police

Migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand earn below minimum wage: Study

Ambitious Saudi tree-planting project 'an export opportunity for Thailand'

A life in chains: Monkeys as coconut pickers in Thailand

Wide reach of the RCEP boosting exports

Thai government urged to take action as coconut boycott campaign stings

Thai Foreign Ministry denies capping visas for Chinese tourists, says entry easy

Indonesia

Indonesia Constitutional Court dismisses petition to change voting system

Discharged cop named protection racket suspect in North Sumatra

Top spender Indonesia accounted for over half of online purchases in S-E Asia in 2022: Study

Philippines

Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Philippines: USGS

Manila eyes broad reforms to double exports to US$240.5bil by 2028

Philippine billionaire Andrew Tan looks to expand casinos beyond Manila

Vietnam

Environmentalist turns recycled plastic waste into stone benches

Paper, coatings, rubber, and plastic international expos open in HCM City

Online gambling syndicates being protected by politicians, confirms Saifuddin

Cambodia

Cambodia unveils digital strategies

Phnom Penh job fair offers 4,500 openings

Cambodia records stable population of rare vultures

Dengue cases in Cambodia up three-fold over 2022

Myanmar

Two killed in military helicopter crash in Myanmar

Myanmar exports over 300 tonnes of honey in May

Laos

Laos-Japan trade value surges to US$290.5mil in 2022

Fifth Lao-Thai Mekong bridge to open next year

Brunei

Youth urged to play part in achieving Brunei Vision 2035

False promises land ex-govt staff in jail

Aseanplus

Bill Gates in China to meet with development partners

Freight from China's Chongqing reaches Malaysia in just 13 days thanks to new rail route

South Korea's Yoon oversees major live-fire drills with U.S

TikTok to spend billions in South-East Asia as ecommerce move pays off

Chinese miners try livestream sales to shift coal glut

Japanese officials call for Mt Fuji crowd control during climbing season

Harry Potter park in Tokyo hopes to enchant Asian fans

North Korea fires two short-range missiles after warning of response to allied drills

TVB actor Mat Yeung denies getting special treatment in jail, says inmates taunted him

Russian tycoon’s superyacht reappears, heading for S. Korea

HK actor Andy Lau says he had to face his fear of water on movie set

Delivery rider in China jumps off bridge to save drowning woman, gets US$11k reward

Taiwan political upstart threatens to eclipse KMT as No. 2 party

Beijing to cover IVF, other fertility treatments for couples from July

Japan in talks to provide artillery shells to U.S. to help Ukraine -WSJ

Korean actor Song Joong-ki welcomes first child with wife Katy Louise Saunders

Asian markets rise as Fed holds rates, China cuts

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