9+ hour, 25+ min ago   (37+ words) Could Malaysia's interest rates be about to turn? Bank Negara is under growing pressure to raise rates as Malaysia's economy continues to outperform... AI-generated briefing — triage, not the story; every claim links out to the coverage below....

20+ hour, 28+ min ago   (558+ words) Two American women have been arrested for allegedly smuggling $1 million worth of marijuana into Japan, a country known for having some of the strictest drug laws in the world. The unidentified pair, both 25, are accused of flying into Tokyo’s Haneda…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (263+ words) PARLIAMENT — South African authorities are developing statutory measures to regulate non-citizen property holdings while depending on state records compiled almost ten years ago. The response came almost a month after the South African Reserve Bank updated its balance of payments…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (217+ words) Singapore’s housing market rarely moves on one headline. The more useful picture comes from a handful of small signals: how long listings sit, whether asking prices soften, and how buyers respond when a bank changes its terms. A busy listing…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (701+ words) Josephine Rogers was returning from a cultural exchange in Finland when her flight was cancelled A disabled teenager left queuing for hours in an airport says people with additional needs are disproportionately affected during major travel disruption. Josephine Rogers, 19, from…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (949+ words) The Core Concept: Researchers have discovered evidence that early human foragers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi habitually consumed betel nuts for their psychoactive properties up to 25,000 years ago. Origin/History: The practice dates to the Late Pleistocene period, with…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (278+ words) Sandra Marrero-Guzman, 37, was accused by the Crown of conspiring with others to bring cannabis into Bermuda and possessing cannabis with intent to supply. The 37-year-old was stopped at the LF Wade Airport on June 26 of last year after arriving on…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (254+ words) The analysis of two hunter-gatherer skeletons reveals that the use of psychoactive substances is older than previously documented: betel nut, one of the most commonly used drugs today, was already being used in human communities in Indonesia 25,000 years ago. These…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (237+ words) This marks the latest retail opening for NOLA Cannabis Co., which operates licensed dispensaries across the metropolitan area at 1667 Tchoupitoulas St. in the Lower Garden District; 1407 South Carrollton Ave. in Uptown; on the West Bank at 1544 Manhattan Blvd.; in Kenner…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (701+ words) A young man who admitted smuggling at least $1.3 million of cannabis resin could face as much as 12 years in prison. Ty Lawes, 21, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to importing more than 16kg of cannabis resin on July 20, 2023. Khadija Beddeau, for…...