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Ride on time: Recycled bikes get Myanmar kids to school

YANGON (AFP): The clangour of bells in the air, Myanmar children race home from school on recycled bikes shipped from Singapore and Malaysia, donated to give them easier access to education in a nation where more than half live in poverty.

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Lawyer allegedly linked to missing SG$33mil had stolen Malaysian passport, poses flight risk

SINGAPORE (ANN): The lawyer who vanished after more than SG$33mil (RM100mil) parked at his firm went missing had left Singapore for Malaysia in a private-hire car on May 13, a district court heard on Thursday (June 20).

Tech News

Tencent set for a rebound in 2019 as hit game Peacekeeper Elite expected to rake in US$1bil

Tencent’s overall videogames business slipped 1% year on year to US$4.1bil in the first quarter of 2019.

Tech News

Chinese self-driving startups AutoX and Pony.ai get green light to offer rides on California roads

Pony.ai, founded by two former Baidu executives, was valued at US$1.7bil in its latest funding round in April.

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Golden David Beckham statue draws tourists to Buddhist temple

BANGKOK (Reuters): Manchester United legend David Beckham has such a strong global appeal and ardent fanbase that a temple in Thailand has installed a gold-painted statue of the footballer in the altar, turning it into a surprising tourist attraction.

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Chinese businessman accused of pushing pregnant wife off cliff in Thailand to get her money

Yu Xiaodong was arrested after his wife told police that her husband had pushed her over the edge at a beauty spot in northeast Thailand Woman suffered multiple broken bones after falling 34 metres, but her unborn child survived the fall

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Hong Kong secondary school teacher jailed for six weeks for taking upskirt photos of students

Teacher admits to taking pictures at a playground and during class; crime discovered after he posted the photos to an Internet forum.

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Wild boar injures woman at Kennedy Town MTR station after gory tussle with police

Woman, 49, suffers minor leg injuries and is taken to hospital Metre-long boar shot with tranquillisers and caged

Indonesia

Ex-employee steals money 'to fund wedding'

JAKARTA (ANN): Jakarta Police have arrested a 32-year-old man, a former staff member at the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), for allegedly stealing money from the organization’s cash box in its office in Mayapada Tower, South Jakarta, on May 20.

Thailand

Fast and Furious 9 cars arrive in Krabi

KRABI (ANN): Cars to be used in the filming of Fast and Furious 9 have arrived in Krabi.

China

Porn sites shut down to join fight in Hong Kong protests

HONG KONG (ANN): Porn sites were among the businesses that urged Hong Kong protesters to take to the streets last week.

China

Shu Qi assures fans she is fine after fall in Shanghai

SHANGHAI (ANN): Taiwanese actress Shu Qi's official fan group has assured her fans on social media that she is fine after she tripped and fell during a promotional event in Shanghai on Tuesday (June 18).

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Huawei promises consumers in the Philippines a full refund if Gmail and Facebook won’t work on its devices

During China’s midyear e-commerce shopping spree, Huawei’s two smartphone brands were No 1 and No 3 in terms of sales volume

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Search for man who went missing while diving in Hong Kong

The 24-year-old had gone out with three others to dive off Sai Kung East Country Park At about 1pm, the others noticed he had failed to resurface

Philippines

Boys under pressure to circumcise

Manila: A row of boys lying on newsprint-covered tables howl in pain and grit their teeth as part of “circumcision season” in the Philippines, when thousands of youngsters suffer through the procedure en masse.

Cambodia

Firms shipping via Cambodia fined

PHNOM PENH: The United States has fined several companies for exporting goods via a Chinese-owned special economic zone in Cambodia in a bid to dodge President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports, a US Embassy official said.

Japan

Quake jolts northwestern Japan, 21 hurt

TOKYO: A powerful earthquake jolted northwestern Japan, causing minor injuries to 21 people and a brief evacuation of coastal homes until the risk of a tsunami passed.

Thailand

‘Help, not dismiss Rohingya’

BANGKOK: Human rights groups called on South-East Asian leaders to rethink their approach to the Rohingya refugee crisis ahead of a regional summit in Bangkok this week.

Indonesia

Indonesia’s pet orangutans released back into the wild

Jakarta: The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down.

Thailand

Bangkok hotel fined for dumping used condoms and trash in canal

BANGKOK: The Bangkok Metro­politan Administration (BMA) has imposed a 10,000 baht (RM1,330) fine on a hotel in the capital’s Bangkok Yai district for improperly disposing used condoms and toiletry items.