Follow South China Morning Post - Southeast Asia, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp26 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:10:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFoz4d-6-lsFTyejEQ2Mq9rY Louise Araneta-Marcos is widely believed to have been the architect of husband Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jnr’s campaign for the top job.]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 06:02:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFoz4d-6-lsFTyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFprYrKUL5uKC5s0ohxaO6Yr Talks between the government and an alliance of legal and civil liberties groups to discuss the new draft criminal code have stumbled.]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:30:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFprYrKUL5uKC5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFpswV1ykzgM5KCY3L745TL_ The Indonesian president will meet the leaders of Ukraine and Russia during next week’s peace-building mission to the warring countries.]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:25:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFpswV1ykzgM5KCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrT-aHwS5TwjJVjH6qdYdAk The city has tightened its Global Investor Programme rules over the years, such as requiring applicants to manage firms with revenues of S$200 million, but interest continues to be strong.]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:30:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrT-aHwS5TwjJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFq68URFCY6JA-zdsCmHakzH The vessel, which went down during a second world war battle with Japan, was located 6,895m below sea level off the Philippines.]]> Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:03:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFq68URFCY6JA-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrTLIDlyzjRqSejEQ2Mq9rY The extrajudicial killings of some 8,000 people has ‘opened the floodgates for a type of governance that disregards the rule of law, due process and human rights’, activists say.]]> Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:00:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrTLIDlyzjRqSejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrIACDxyZIPNylmFkX7M1Jw Amid a Western exodus, expats from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand share why they remain confident in the city’s future – even if Covid curbs are a major turn-off.]]> Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:30:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrIACDxyZIPNylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrIACDxyZIPN-T5HJgy6HUf In a now-deleted post, the Holywings bar offered a free bottle of gin for men named Muhammad and women named Maria every Thursday if they showed their ID cards.]]> Sat, 25 Jun 2022 01:30:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrIACDxyZIPN-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqTcXYeSCltd-zdsCmHakzH The former 1MDB boss will appear as a prosecution witness in the audit tampering trial involving the disgraced leader.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:40:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqTcXYeSCltd-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrzzTRjXzT0C5s0ohxaO6Yr The shadow government and UN denounced the military for transferring the ousted leader from house arrest to solitary confinement in prison this week.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:26:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrzzTRjXzT0C5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrnNOyzojRm8Zs0ohxaO6Yr Despite air quality in Jakarta often exceeding WHO guidelines, campaigners say the government is still not tackling pollution. It is even appealing against last year’s landmark court ruling which said air quality must be improved.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 02:30:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrnNOyzojRm8Zs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFpqXWqCTBC5X5VjH6qdYdAk The Nobel laureate left the premises to attend hearings for her numerous trials in a junta court that could see her handed a sentence of more than 150 years.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:12:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFpqXWqCTBC5X5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrqp9OQZcmmZ6CY3L745TL_ Vietnam’s first quarter exports reached US$88.58 billion, up by 12.9 per cent from the previous year, with Chinese state media comparing the shipments in the first three months of the year to China’s main export hub of Shenzhen.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:30:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrqp9OQZcmmZ6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqmP1l7KaA2mqCY3L745TL_ ‘The president [Duterte] had spoken … oil and gas discussions are terminated completely. Nothing is pending; everything is over,’ Filipino minister said.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:34:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqmP1l7KaA2mqCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqOG-n_dzKk2CejEQ2Mq9rY While some Singaporeans accused Mahathir of fomenting ill will between the neighbours, observers in Malaysia said the remarks were likely a veiled jab at the sultan of Johor.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:30:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqOG-n_dzKk2CejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqV2EX1JX_83JVjH6qdYdAk Tom Andrews urged 10-member bloc Asean to follow Malaysia’s lead and move from non-interference to ‘non-indifference’ in Myanmar, with much more needing to be done to avoid more death and suffering.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:03:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqV2EX1JX_83JVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqFfrCcBXJBK3n9ye8UNv30 People are finding peace and acceptance in the tranquil pastime, ‘Everyone can be a mermaid!’ Filipino mermaiding and free-diving teacher says.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 11:36:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqFfrCcBXJBK3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrXGUTT2PSt7sb1naedg1wr Thailand became the first Asian nation to decriminalise cannabis earlier this month. But tourists caught smuggling it into Indonesia could face the death penalty.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 09:23:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFrXGUTT2PSt7sb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFp5BdA5WJpbbKCY3L745TL_ Fertiliser prices surged over the last year on logistics snarl-ups and the Ukraine war while an intake of foreign labourers was approved, there’s a prolonged delay in getting them.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:58:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFp5BdA5WJpbbKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqZnXG9PqfpA3n9ye8UNv30 Almost 12,000 expatriates around the world were interviewed, including in the Asia-Pacific region, for a well-being survey. 95 per cent of ‘top managers’ in Singapore mentioned burnout symptoms while almost half the Hong Kong respondents were planning to return home.]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:00:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ryu-pJ-IRFqZnXG9PqfpA3n9ye8UNv30