OCBC Bank launches Singapore's first digital account-opening service that lets you set up a new bank account in 5 minutes, Business Insider - Business Insider Singapore

OCBC Bank launches Singapore's first digital account-opening service that lets you set up a new bank account in 5 minutes, Business Insider - Business Insider Singapore: Business Insider - Applicants opening an OCBC 360 Account would be able to receive a new account number almost immediately after completing their application. OCBC Bank OCBC Bank has just launched a brand…. Read more at businessinsider.sg

Japan’s richest minister Taro Aso returns year’s salary as heads roll in cronyism scandal | South China Morning Post

Japan’s richest minister Taro Aso returns year’s salary as heads roll in cronyism scandal | South China Morning Post: Losing a year’s salary won’t mean much to Taro Aso financially, given he was born into Japan’s elite and is independently wealthy

A 26-year-old Singaporean geek turned down US$100m for his app. It was a great call | South China Morning Post

A 26-year-old Singaporean geek turned down US$100m for his app. It was a great call | South China Morning Post: Quek Siu Rui’s app for selling used goods, Carousell, is now valued at US$500m, but he says the firm is ‘less than one per cent done’

Malaysia appoints ethnic Indian Tommy Thomas as new attorney general, replaces official who cleared ex-PM in 1MDB scandal | South China Morning Post

Malaysia appoints ethnic Indian Tommy Thomas as new attorney general, replaces official who cleared ex-PM in 1MDB scandal | South China Morning Post: Tommy Thomas is the first non-Malay to take the post of attorney general since Malaysia was formed in 1963

All of Singapore’s government services will go digital by 2023, with more public servants to be trained in data analytics | South China Morning Post

All of Singapore’s government services will go digital by 2023, with more public servants to be trained in data analytics | South China Morning Post: From paying bills and applying to public housing, to buying a house or a car, up to 95 per cent of transactions would be available through government websites

A garbage truck in the sea every minute of every day: can plastic-loving Asia pull itself out of its ocean pollution crisis? | South China Morning Post

A garbage truck in the sea every minute of every day: can plastic-loving Asia pull itself out of its ocean pollution crisis? | South China Morning Post: More than half the world’s plastic waste comes from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam – the biggest consumers of the material and whose waste management is at best patchy

Trump-Kim summit: White House confirms leaders will meet on resort island of Sentosa | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post

Trump-Kim summit: White House confirms leaders will meet on resort island of Sentosa | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: The five-star Capella Hotel was not an obvious choice because it has not previously hosted high-level political events

Chinese Activists Detained, Under Surveillance on 'Politically Sensitive' Massacre Anniversary

Chinese Activists Detained, Under Surveillance on 'Politically Sensitive' Massacre Anniversary: A former student leader welcomes a memorial vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen massacre in Hong Kong.

Interview: 'I Still Have Flashbacks to That Night'

Interview: 'I Still Have Flashbacks to That Night': A former People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier speaks to RFA's Mandarin Service about his part in the Tiananmen Square military crackdown.

Vietnam Democracy Advocates Lose Appeal in Court Ruling

Vietnam Democracy Advocates Lose Appeal in Court Ruling: Four members of the online Brotherhood For Democracy group are sent back to prison to serve out their sentences.

Cambodia to Monitor, ‘Control’ Online News Ahead of Upcoming Ballot

Cambodia to Monitor, ‘Control’ Online News Ahead of Upcoming Ballot: Rights groups and media watchdogs slam the move as ‘pre-election censorship.’

New UN Envoy to Visit Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Mid-June, Official Says

New UN Envoy to Visit Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Mid-June, Official Says: Myint Thu of the Foreign Affairs Ministry says the move reflects the country’s current policy of working with the United Nations to resolve the refugee crisis.

China Detains 17 Protestant Christians Who Prayed For Tiananmen Massacre Victims

China Detains 17 Protestant Christians Who Prayed For Tiananmen Massacre Victims: The pastor, preachers and church members are released a day later, after being held on suspicion of "illegal assembly."

Former Student Leader Wang Dan Seeks Funding For China Democracy Think-Tank

Former Student Leader Wang Dan Seeks Funding For China Democracy Think-Tank: Wang wants the new organization to come up with concrete, viable proposals for a democratic transition in China.

North Korea Says Syria’s Assad Will Visit With Kim - The New York Times

North Korea Says Syria’s Assad Will Visit With Kim - The New York Times: The announcement that President Bashar al-Assad plans to visit North Korea, which was not confirmed by Syria, came just days after President Trump announced a summit with the North was back on.

Indonesia Clamps Down on Simmering Independence Effort in Papua - The New York Times

Indonesia Clamps Down on Simmering Independence Effort in Papua - The New York Times: Human rights groups are alarmed about a crackdown on people who are peacefully supporting independence in the Papua region.

Indonesia Clamps Down on Simmering Independence Effort in Papua - The New York Times

Indonesia Clamps Down on Simmering Independence Effort in Papua - The New York Times: Human rights groups are alarmed about a crackdown on people who are peacefully supporting independence in the Papua region.

Bomber Attacks Afghan Scholars Gathered to Denounce Violence - The New York Times

Bomber Attacks Afghan Scholars Gathered to Denounce Violence - The New York Times: “Using humans, the noblest of all creatures, as a tool of war is a disrespect to humanity,” the clerics said in a proclamation moments before the deadly attack in Kabul.

China’s Trade With North Korea Is Set to Soar With a Trump-Kim Deal - The New York Times

China’s Trade With North Korea Is Set to Soar With a Trump-Kim Deal - The New York Times: A shadowy gray market of “shuttle traders” and money couriers already exists, and economic ties could quickly take off if sanctions are lifted.

Timor-Leste is no failing state - New Mandala

Timor-Leste is no failing state - New Mandala: Apocalyptic portrayals of the country's future distract us from what its real problems are, and how to address them.

Four years of the NCPO, four years of creative resistance—part two - New Mandala

Four years of the NCPO, four years of creative resistance—part two - New Mandala: Part two of Anon Chawalawan's compilation of the activist inventiveness that has survived the NCPO's four-year rule.

Duterte Harry: Fire and Fury in the Philippines - New Mandala

Duterte Harry: Fire and Fury in the Philippines - New Mandala: A conversation with Jonathan Miller “If there’s one thing Dutere is not, it’s unpredictable”—New Mandala’s Philippines editor interviews Jonathan Miller about his new biography of the populist strongman. Posted by New Mandala on Sunday, 3 June 2018   Editor’s note: Our Philippines editor Nicole Curato talked to Jonathan Miller, the author of Duterte Harry: Fire...

5 free maps of Cambodia - ASEAN UP

5 free maps of Cambodia - ASEAN UP: A set of maps of Cambodia may be useful to detail ideas or projects for your website or blog, or to create your own maps. Here is a collection of copyright or royalty free, labelled and blank maps of Cambodia to be used directly as is, or to be elaborated upon to create beautiful modern maps that suit your purposes.

Indonesia universities intensify student monitoring following terror raids, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Indonesia universities intensify student monitoring following terror raids, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: JAKARTA/PEKANBARU (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Indonesian universities are tightening supervision of student activities following the arrest of suspected terrorists at a state university in Sumatra last Saturday (June 2).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Lawyers for Najib quit as his wife appeared before Malaysia's anti-graft agents, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Lawyers for Najib quit as his wife appeared before Malaysia's anti-graft agents, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Lawyers representing Malaysia's former premier Najib Razak said on Tuesday (June 5) they had quit, before his wife made a statement to anti-graft agents as part of an investigation into a former unit of state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Manila 'trash bin' waterway choked with plastic, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Manila 'trash bin' waterway choked with plastic, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: MANILA (AFP) - The blanket of trash on a creek that flows between the makeshift homes of a Manila slum is so dense it appears one could walk across it like a paved street.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Incoming Malaysia A-G Thomas says he has been given 'awesome responsibility', SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Incoming Malaysia A-G Thomas says he has been given 'awesome responsibility', SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Prominent Malaysian lawyer Tommy Thomas said he was "humbled" by the "awesome responsibility" of being named the country's new Attorney-General.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Malaysia's Finance Ministry unearths S$3.2b gas pipeline scandal, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Malaysia's Finance Ministry unearths S$3.2b gas pipeline scandal, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia's Finance Ministry has discovered dubious payments made in two pipeline projects, with nearly 90 per cent of the contracts worth RM9.4 billion (S$3.2 billion) being paid out but only 13 per cent of the work being completed.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Vietnam court rejects appeal by airport bomb plotters, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Vietnam court rejects appeal by airport bomb plotters, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: HANOI (REUTERS) - A court in Vietnam has upheld prison sentences against 15 people it said are guilty of plotting to bomb the country's largest airport in Ho Chi Minh City last April, state media reported on Tuesday (June 5).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Crisis in Perlis resolved as all BN assemblyman now backs Menteri Besar, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Crisis in Perlis resolved as all BN assemblyman now backs Menteri Besar, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: KANGAR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - All nine Barisan Nasional (BN) state assemblymen have finally agreed to the appointment of Datuk Seri Azlan Man as Perlis Menteri Besar, resolving a three-week leadership crisis in Malaysia's smallest state.. Read more at straitstimes.com.