December 5, 2024 – Page 6 – From Inside Asia

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammadi gets 3-week reprieve from prison after surgery

Published: 11:17am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 11:20am, 5 Dec 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was released temporarily from prison Wednesday after undergoing a...

by Associated Press December 5, 2024

World

Vice-premier urges more US investment in talks with Goldman Sachs president

Published: 11:00am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 11:10am, 5 Dec 2024 Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng has been urging more investment from the United States to promote...

by Mia Nulimaimaiti December 5, 2024

World

How a brazen US$1.1 billion nickel scam allegedly ensnared some of Singapore’s brightest

Published: 10:57am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 11:02am, 5 Dec 2024 When Ng Yu Zhi strode into Singapore’s elite circles, he was seen as a financial...

by Kimberly Lim,Jean Iau December 5, 2024

World

Trump’s Ukraine challenge will be bringing Putin to negotiating table: experts

A former senior diplomat in US president-elect Donald Trump’s first administration has called for increased pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to come to...

by Kawala Xie December 5, 2024

World

Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in 2 months

Cash-strapped Cuba on Wednesday was struggling to revive its power grid, after fixing a failure at the country’s largest power plant, which had caused...

by Agence France-Presse December 5, 2024

Military

Japan shows off new laser C-UAS vehicle

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) has unveiled a prototype laser-based mobile counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of...

by Jr Ng December 5, 2024

World

Heir to billions but now a monk, Ananda Krishnan’s son returns to Malaysia for last goodbye

The son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who renounced his immense inheritance to pursue an ascetic life as a Buddhist monk in a monastery...

by Joseph Sipalan December 5, 2024

World

Hong Kong’s John Lee sacks tourism and transport ministers in unexpected move

Published: 10:26am, 5 Dec 2024Updated: 12:43pm, 5 Dec 2024 Hong Kong’s leader has fired his tourism and transport ministers, Kevin Yeung Yun-hung and Lam...

by Wynna Wong,Kahon Chan December 5, 2024