Asean news headlines as at 9pm on Wednesday (Oct 11)


Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim poses with his Thai counterpart Srettha Thavisin in front of his office in Putrajaya on Oct 11, 2023. - Prime Minister Office/Handout via Reuters

Malaysia

* Thai PM arrives in Malaysia for two-day working visit

* Malaysia and Thailand agree to form task forces to boost ties, says PM

* Najib’s appeal to reinstate lawsuit against Tommy Thomas for hearing on Feb 5 next year

* Immigration Dept nab couple for applying for child's passport with fake ID

* Sabah's door is open to all investors, says Hajiji

* Bukit Aman CID chief pleased with public reception to his stern address to his personnel

* Najib's 1MDB trial: Investigating officer expected to testify on Oct 12

* 'Kidnapping' of two teens turns out to be an elaborate scam

* Former Sabah CM Shafie denies involvement in land deal controversy

* Sabah to work with world's third-largest construction machinery maker to build factory in state

* Five Malaysians trapped in West Bank, including a woman and three kids

* Compulsory education may be up to secondary level, says deputy minister

* Nearly 900 suspected loan sharks arrested so far this year

* High hopes for Terengganu's Tasik Kenyir

* Negotiations with Indonesia on domestic worker cost ongoing, says HR Ministry

* Causeway CIQ began testing contra flow lanes to ease traffic

* RM168.7mil will be spent to address traffic congestion at Johor’s CIQs

* Two areas in Peninsula record unhealthy air quality at 9am

Singapore

* Two children involved in killer litter incident in Ang Mo Kio under investigation

* Thai PM Srettha Thavisin to make first official visit to Singapore

* Over 3 months’ jail for stalker who used taser to assault ex-girlfriend

* Two children involved in killer litter incident in Ang Mo Kio under investigation

* Singapore-Johor relations have grown under Johor Sultan’s leadership: PM Lee

* Two arrested for allegedly trafficking nearly S$500k worth of drugs

* Man accused of misappropriating over S$270k allegedly lied to cop that robbers took the cash

* Once nearly extinct, rare Raffles’ banded langur now thrives in S’pore

Thailand

* Thai workers told their transfers not illegal, as 3 more taken hostage, 2 more killed in Israel-Hamas conflict

* Air Force jet flying to Israel on Oct 15 to bring 140 Thais back

* Police seek help in hunting down Myanmar teen suspected of killing ex-Thai envoy

* Fans snap up concert tickets after Thai rock band Carabao announces break up next year

* Thai tourism hit by mall shooting and Israel war

* Thai cbank says outlook, not short-term data, more important for rates

* Thai workers only being shifted to safer workplaces in Israel: Envoy

Indonesia

* Island nations sign climate solidarity declaration in Indonesia

* Jokowi's son Kaesang to meet with Prabowo amid alliance speculation

* Soccer: Indonesia wants to co-host 2034 World Cup with Australia, Malaysia, Singapore

* Indonesian minister Luhut Panjaitan receiving medical care in S'pore

* Jokowi’s administration gets red mark on graft eradication

* Indonesia police kill one at plantation protest: rights groups

Philippines

* Slapped Philippine student died of brain swelling, bleeding: Forensics

* China ready to cooperate with Manila on illegal offshore gambling

* Two Filipinos killed in war-torn Israel

Vietnam

* High costs a hurdle to recycling textiles in Vietnam

* HCM City's economic growth to reach 6-7 per cent this year

* Vietnam's tourism looks to digital transformation as growth driver

Cambodia

* Brazil and Cambodia seek to strengthen ties

* War-left US aerial bomb safely removed in Cambodia

Myanmar

* Two allies of Myanmar junta chief jailed for high treason

* Floods displace over 27,000 people in Myanmar's Bago region

* Illegal drugs seized in central Myanmar

Laos

* Laos on alert as Typhoon Koinu approaches

* Laos, FAO join forces to boost SDG progress

Brunei

* Sultan lauds Brunei-Thai ties in era of uncertainty

* Foreigner slapped with whopping fine for possessing, selling smuggled cigarettes

* Thai PM Srettha discusses cooperation with Brunei Sultan

Aseanplus

* Australian journalist Cheng Lei back home after China release

* Chinese scientists join Fukushima water review

* Scientists from Hong Kong, Beijing, South Korea create AI tool to predict brain cancer prognosis

* 'Not proud at all': Japan's army struggles to recruit

* Flight carrying South Koreans from Israel arrives home

* Asian markets build on global rally as Fed pause hopes grow

* Exclusive-India allows cough syrup firm linked to Uzbek deaths to re-open factory -document

* Actor Henry Golding and wife Liv Lo Golding welcome second daughter

* BTS' Jungkook scores another No.1 on Billboard Global 200 chart with '3D'

* ‘Do boys have no hands?’: Anger over stereotypes as woman counsellor at China university asks girls to help clean boys’ dormitories

* HK-based actress Karena Lam says monetary disputes not the reason for divorce

* HK actor Louis Koo spends RM2,000 at KL restaurant, Gen Z staff doesn't recognise him

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