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A Taiwanese woman has posted online about how she was detained by Malaysian authorities for 35 hours due to a damaged passport.
The woman, identified by her alias “Qiao-mei,” wrote that upon her flight’s arrival at the Kuala Lumpur airport, Malaysian immigration officials complained about a damaged page in her passport, resulting in her being held for 35 hours without a phone.
The Foreign Ministry said it was contacting relevant authorities at the airport to understand the situation.
Qiao-mei said the passport page had been damaged when a duty free form stapled onto it was ripped off by a Japanese customs official. She wrote that Malaysian customs authorities created a great fuss about the page, brought her to an office, took away her cell phone and demanded cash.
Qiao-mei said she had refused to pay and was released only after 35 hours had passed.
According to a report sent to the Foreign Ministry by Malaysia, the woman arrived in Kuala Lumpur on an Air Asia flight on March 9 at 8:30 p.m. and was denied entry because of a “damaged passport.” She disembarked on March 11 at 9:20 a.m. for Taiwan, the report said.
Malaysian authorities did not note that the traveller was held or that her passport and cell phone were taken from her.
Travelers who are denied entry to Malaysia and are unable to disembark on the same day are taken to the airport’s holding lounge while arrangements are made to send them back to their country of origin, the Taiwan ministry said.
Malaysian officials do not inform foreign consular offices of such cases unless it deems it necessary for the traveller to be held for a longer time at a depot near the airport, the ministry added.
It urged citizens encountering emergencies overseas to contact the closest consular office for assistance or to directly contact the Foreign Ministry after returning to Taiwan and providing relevant evidence and documentation.
Archaeologists have discovered nearly 200 boat-shaped coffins dating from between the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) and the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
They found the coffins after digging an area the size of two football fields in Shuangyuan village in Dawang town, Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu.
Lying in the centre of the area was the largest coffin buried more than 2m below the ground. The coffin was carved out of a tree and sealed with mud.
A large amount of bronze ware was found in the coffins, including cicadas, tigers and dragons, said Wang Tianyou, an archaeologist with the Chengdu Cultural Relic Archaeology and Research Institute.
In 2000, archeologists from his institute found lots of boat-shaped coffins in the Commercial Street in downtown Chengdu. The coffins are believed to belong to the kings of Shu during the Warring States Period. Shu was the ancient name of Sichuan.
According to Zhu Zhangyi, an archaeologist and deputy chief of the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, boat-shaped coffins were very popular in Sichuan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
KUALA LUMPUR – The Asian Cup qualifier between Malaysia and North Korea, which was postponed last week due to strained relations between the countries, has been rescheduled to June 8, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Wednesday.
Malaysia’s Football Association had asked for the game to be moved away from Pyongyang under pressure from its government following the recent breakdown in relations.
AFC Secretary General Dato’ Windsor John told a media conference in Kuala Lumpur that the match had been rescheduled and set a deadline of April 14 for a venue to be decided upon.
“The match is now confirmed to be played on June 8,” he said. “We have also told them (North Korea) to come back with a neutral venue, in the event the diplomatic situation is not solved.”
The two countries have become embroiled in a growing row after Malaysia accused North Korea of assassinating Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of Pyongyang ruler Kim Jong Un, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13.
The two nations were due to open the final phase of qualifying for the 2019 Asian Cup finals in United Arab Emirates with a Group B encounter at Kim Il Sung Stadium on March 28.
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SINGAPORE – If you’ve ever had to drive through an ERP gantry without enough funds in your cashcard to pay the fee, you should know how painful it is to have to pay a fine for a mistake caused by momentary carelessness.
But this may be a worry of the past.
From now, you will have less reason to fret as EZ-Pay has been enabled for motorists with DBS and POSB credit cards. EZ-Pay allows ERP payments to be charged directly to credit cards as long as the motorist has completed registered to do so on the EZ-Pay website.
EZ-Pay works by linking an in-vehicle unit (IU) to a credit card, so the CashCard does not even have to be in the IU when an ERP charge is incurred.
The payment system was first rolled out last year to Citibank credit card users. No subscription or top-up fees are needed.
Customers can log in to their EZ-Pay accounts online or refer to their monthly credit card statements to check records of the ERP transactions.
EZ-Pay will be made available for carpark charges soon.
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SEOUL – South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday ordered ousted president Park Geun-Hye to appear before them next week for questioning over the corruption scandal that triggered her dramatic downfall.
Park, who was dismissed by the Constitutional Court last Friday, will be required to attend a prosecutors’ office in Seoul next Tuesday, a spokesman said.
Read also: Park Geun-hye leaves Blue House, says ‘truth will reveal itself’
A criminal suspect in the scandal, Park had repeatedly refused to make herself available for questioning by the prosecutors before the country’s highest court confirmed a parliamentary impeachment motion against her.
Friday’s final ruling stripped her of power and executive privileges, including protection from criminal indictment, and she left the presidential palace at the weekend.
Park’s lawyer said Wednesday she would “co-operate” with the probe.
She is set to become the fourth former South Korean leader to be questioned by prosecutors over corruption scandals.
Two former army-backed leaders who ruled in the 1980s and the early 1990s – Chun Doo-Hwan and Roh Tae-Woo – both served jail terms for bribery after they retired.
Another ex-president, Roh Moo-Hyun, killed himself by jumping off a cliff in 2009 after being questioned by prosecutors over suspected bribery.
The latest corruption and influence-peddling scandal is centred on Park’s close confidante Choi Soon-Sil, who is on trial for abuse of power and coercion.
Choi is accused of using her presidential ties to force local firms including Samsung to “donate” nearly US$70 million (S$98.89 million) to non-profit foundations she allegedly used for personal gain.
Park – the 65-year-old daughter of the late former strongman Park Chung-Hee – has been named as Choi’s accomplice who helped her extract money from the firms.
The scandal that rocked the nation has also seen the heir to electronics giant Samsung, Lee Jae-Yong, arrested and charged with bribery for offering millions of dollars to Choi in return for policy favours from Park.
The former president is also accused of letting Choi, who has no title or security clearance, handle a wide range of state affairs including nomination of top officials and diplomats.
Park voiced defiance over the court ruling, saying “the truth will eventually be revealed” through her spokesman after returning to her private home on Sunday.
The ouster of Park – who had commanded a huge following among older, conservative South Koreans who benefited from the rapid growth under her father’s 1961-79 rule – has sparked angry, sometimes violent protests by her supporters.
The presidential poll to choose Park’s successor will be held on May 9, the public administration ministry announced Wednesday.
The scandal has left Park’s conservative party in tatters – it has changed its name in an effort to relaunch itself – and fanned the popularity of liberal opposition parties.
Moon Jae-In, former head of the main opposition Democratic Party, holds a commanding lead in opinion polls.
His most likely conservative challenger after former UN chief Ban Ki-moon bowed out last month had been seen as Hwang Kyo-Ahn, Park’s prime minister who has been standing in as acting president since her parliamentary impeachment in December.
But Hwang said Wednesday he would not stand, leaving the Liberty Korea party with no clear standard-bearer.
“I am aware of the voices of people who want me to join the presidential race,” said Hwang said, who would have to step down as acting president if he was to become a candidate.
“I have concluded that it is inappropriate for me for stable governing and fair management of the election process,” he told a cabinet meeting.
“I will only focus on carrying out my duties as acting president.”
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has used a DNA sample from one of Kim Jong-Nam’s children to confirm the identity of the assassinated half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, the deputy prime minister said Wednesday.
Investigators “confirmed the identity of the body as Kim Jong-Nam based on the sample obtained from his child”, said Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, without elaborating further.
Read also: Video of alleged son of Kim Jong-nam emerges
The 45-year-old was poisoned with the deadly nerve agent VX in a brazen Cold War-style assassination on February 13 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Seoul has blamed Pyongyang for his death, but the North has rejected those claims and has never confirmed the identity of the victim, who was carrying a passport bearing the name of Kim Chol when he was attacked.
Malaysia officially confirmed his identity on Friday, but refused to say whether authorities had obtained a DNA sample from next-of-kin.
Police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said at the time that concerns “for the security of the witnesses” prevented him from revealing further details.
The killing triggered a bitter row between Malaysia and North Korea, which have expelled each other’s ambassadors and refused to let their citizens leave.
Pyongyang has denounced the Malaysian investigation as an attempt to smear the secretive regime, insisting that he most likely died of a heart attack.
Kim’s wife and children, who were living in exile in the Chinese territory of Macau, staged a vanishing act after the murder. There are fears his 21-year-old son, Kim Han-Sol, could be targeted next.
Three Malaysian embassy staff and six family members are stranded in Pyongyang after North Korea barred Malaysians from leaving the country last week, prompting a tit-for-tat move by Kuala Lumpur.
Two women – one Vietnamese and one Indonesian – have been arrested and charged with the murder. Airport CCTV footage shows them approaching the victim and apparently smearing his face with a piece of cloth.
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