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Philippines to ban online gambling

The Philippines’ gaming regulator on Tuesday said it will cancel the licenses of offshore gambling firms and work with law enforcement agencies to implement President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s order of a total ban on the industry. In his State of the Nation address on Monday, Marcos said he was banning …

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Farewell to a leader: Nguyen Phu Trong’s last days remembered

Despite his declining health, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong still maintained his working schedule while strictly following treatment procedures during his final days. Associate Professor, doctor Nguyen Phuong Dong, who had been overseeing Trong’s health at the 108 Military Central Hospital in Hanoi for several years, said that every …

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Thailand will not re-criminalize cannabis, deputy PM says

Thailand will work towards legislating marijuana for medical use, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, signalling a U-turn on plans to re-criminalize the plant and another change in the government’s hazy position on cannabis. Thailand in 2022 became one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalize marijuana, doing …

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Theme park’s novel bid to fix South Korea youth unemployment

At a kids’ role-playing theme park in Seoul, 23-year-old Park Woo-joo is on a very adult mission: the university-educated but unemployed South Korean is searching for his future career. A theme park rides. Illustration photo by Pexels Part of a Mexican-owned global chain, KidZania typically offers young children the chance …

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