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Asia must guard against repeat of 1997 financial crisis: Philippine central bank chief
Asian countries must remind themselves about what happened during the region’s financial crisis in the late 1990s and guard against a recurrence of such shocks, the head of the Philippine central bank said on Wednesday. Before the Asian financial crisis started in 1997, regional economies saw huge capital inflows that prompted the World Bank to describe it as the “East Asian miracle”, Eli Remolona, governor of the central bank, said in an International Monetary Fund panel on the outlook for the...
Asia must guard against repeat of 1997 financial crisis: Philippine central bank chief
Asian countries must remind themselves about what happened during the region’s financial crisis in the late 1990s and guard against a recurrence of such shocks, the head of the Philippine central bank said on Wednesday. Before the Asian financial crisis started in 1997, regional economies saw huge capital inflows that prompted the World Bank to describe it as the “East Asian miracle”, Eli Remolona, governor of the central bank, said in an International Monetary Fund panel on the outlook for the...
Deluge by design: Thai villages flooded to protect capital
AYUTTHAYA - Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare the capital.
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Scrap RM15k haj savings rule, don't burden aspiring pilgrims - Tuan Ibrahim
PARLIAMENT | He says the requirement could disadvantage rural Muslims.
Nearly 600 arrests carried out to secure IMF-World Bank meetings
Police have reported they arrested 587 criminal suspects in provinces beyond Bangkok in the interest of securing the 2026 International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group meetings in the capital.
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‘Be the same people we were before’ - Govt MP makes plea for equal allocations
PARLIAMENT | Isnaraissah also asks how RM18.7b allocation will benefit Sabahans.
Submerged to save Bangkok: rural Thais bear brunt of capital’s flood defences
Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare the capital. Inside the home of Kamonchanok Sathaphonamonwut, raised more than three metres (10 feet) above the ground in Ayutthaya province, her family of three sleeps on makeshift platforms and cannot use the waterlogged toilet. Her village has been flooded six years in a row, pushing some to move away, while others have raised their houses...
Submerged to save Bangkok: rural Thais bear brunt of capital’s flood defences
Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare the capital. Inside the home of Kamonchanok Sathaphonamonwut, raised more than three metres (10 feet) above the ground in Ayutthaya province, her family of three sleeps on makeshift platforms and cannot use the waterlogged toilet. Her village has been flooded six years in a row, pushing some to move away, while others have raised their houses...
HCM City hopes to revitalise classical drama 'hát bội' with regular public shows
The HCM City Hát Bội Theatre has been holding regular performances in various public spaces across the city. It has organised around 20 shows so far this year.
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21 injuries, swelling of skull area, bleeding in brain and intestines: 'Silence not an option'
Noorizwan's family kept in the dark, demands action from govt and IGP.