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Bangladesh's top lawyer told a bunch of attorneys at their dinner party that everyone needs to work together to stop the whole delayed-justice problem, since dragging things out basically kills the point of having courts. Md Asaduzzaman said this while hanging with the Sylhet District Bar...

Khaleda Zia is getting worked on at Evercare Hospital's cardiac unit, while her son Tarique Rahman posted about wanting to be with his sick mom, but basically can't make that call himself. The BNP acting chairman wrote that he's stuck waiting until the political situation settles down before he...

Bangladesh is basically fumbling the bag with all its big trading buddies right now, and people who watch this stuff are saying the interim government screwed up some deals that are gonna haunt whoever takes over next. The country locked in some agreements with America that got China side-eyeing...

The Jamaat boss is out here saying Bangladeshis are sick of the same crusty political playbook and want something different. Shafiqur Rahman went off at a rally backing his party's candidate, claiming voters are done with partisan governments and want leaders who actually care about regular...

BNP's top guy, Mirza Fakhrul, is saying social media is basically turning into a dumpster fire that's making people go wild in the streets and wrecking the whole democracy vibe. He thinks random people posting whatever garbage they want without anyone checking them is causing mob attacks and...

Bangladesh's embassy in Kathmandu threw a fish festival that pulled in diplomats, government folks, business people, and hotel managers from around Nepal. Ambassador Md Shafiqur Rahman talked up his country's fishing game as part of their whole river culture thing, while Nepal's acting foreign...

The law adviser rolled up to Evercare Hospital to see how Khaleda Zia was doing, and she's apparently in rough shape. Asif Nazrul showed up representing Muhammad Yunus, chatted with the docs, and gave the family some moral support while she gets worked on in cardiac intensive care. BNP's...

Bangladesh's religious adviser told people to chill with the vigilante stuff and let the courts handle punishment instead of grabbing pitchforks. AFM Khalid Hossain said at a Quran conference that anyone ignoring this advice is gonna face consequences, and he warned against messing with the...

The head of Jamaat-e-Islami is pretty worried about Khaleda Zia getting sicker at that hospital in Dhaka. Shafiqur Rahman posted about how his crew has been staying in the loop on the former prime minister's treatment situation, and he threw up some prayers for her to bounce back fast. He asked...

Tarique Rahman thanked Bangladesh's chief adviser for keeping an eye on his mom's hospital stay and asking people to send good vibes her way. The BNP acting chairman put out a statement through one of the party's senior officials, saying Muhammad Yunus showed real decency by checking in on...

Bangladesh's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus dispatched his law adviser and special assistant to check on former prime minister Khaleda Zia at an Evercare Hospital location in Dhaka. The BNP leader is getting intensive care for some serious health problems, and party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul...

About 31 percent of Sabah's 1.74 million registered voters showed up by mid-morning for the state's 17th election, according to Election Commission head Ramlan Harun. That turnout was slightly behind the previous election's pace from 2020, and officials are predicting around 60 percent overall...

Hajiji Noor said the Sabah election ran smoothly despite tons of candidates fighting for seats across 73 constituencies. The caretaker chief minister who leads Gabungan Rakyat Sabah told reporters he was happy people kept things peaceful during voting, and he predicted turnout would stay strong...

Sabah's election watchdog logged 603 rule violations during the campaign season, and most of them were dinky infractions like putting up posters wrong. The Election Commission chairman said cops got 81 reports while anti-corruption investigators grabbed five cases, and enforcement teams yanked...

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the Maharani Freeport project will pump out around 45,000 jobs and let small businesses tap into international trade routes. The government dropped tax breaks for companies running deep-sea ports, energy operations, and trade services at the facility...

Malaysia's anti-corruption squad grabbed Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin and businessman Albert Tei, and both got hit with six-day detention orders from a Putrajaya court. The case centers on alleged bribes worth hundreds of thousands of ringgit that Tei supposedly handed over to Shamsul so he could...

Sabah's election pulled in about a third of eligible voters by mid-morning, with the Election Commission reporting 545,391 people out of 1.78 million had shown up to cast ballots. The state's 882 voting spots started shutting down in waves after lunch and wrapped up completely by late afternoon...

Papa Shee called out some shady stuff happening at a Kumasi High Court hearing about who gets to do the widowhood rites for the late Daddy Lumba. The evangelist said he spotted lawyers from one side walking out of the judge's private room, and he thinks that whole situation looks sketchy as...

Ghana's Controller and Accountant-General's Department blamed a technical glitch for missing teacher allowance payments, and the explanation got ripped apart for being vague nonsense that dodged accountability. The department told educators to wait until mid-December for their professional...

Two cops got hit with a combined 30 years behind bars after a court in Gbetsile found them guilty of running drugs. ASP Nasiru Amadu and Corporal Emmanuel Mintah were busted back in 2023 when district police in Afienya pulled over their Nissan Navara during a checkpoint operation. Officers found...