🏠 This is the first quarterly disbursement for the 2026 financial year.

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🇰🇷 South Korea proposes $22b extra budget to mitigate Middle East shock

It is the second extra budget in less than a year under the administration of President Lee Jae-myung, who has pledged to pursue an expansionary fiscal policy to spur economic growth since taking office last June.

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🇮🇩🌳 Indonesian forest loss surges by 66% in 2025, driven by Prabowo's self-sufficiency drive, report shows

A think tank found that a total of 433,751 hectares of forest was cleared last year, a dramatic jump from 261,575 hectares in 2024, marking the highest rate of forest loss in eight years.

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🇲🇾 Malaysia court orders ex-PM Najib to pay $1.68 billion to 1MDB unit, state media reports

The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that Najib was liable for losses incurred by SRC International, a former subsidiary of sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

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📱 IMDA flags X, TikTok for failure to detect and remove child exploitation, terrorism content

The two firms will now be required to regularly provide updates on implementing rectification measures, such as enhancing their automated detection systems to flag violations.

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🏥 CDA to implement enhanced measures against measles spread from April 1 after 12 new cases reported

Among the cases, eight are not genetically linked, while four are part of a known cluster, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said, noting that there is currently no evidence of wider community spread and that epidemiological investigations are ongoing. 

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🚕 SMRT-owned Strides Premier raises street hail fares and time-based unit fare

In an announcement on Tuesday (March 31), Strides Premier said the increase in street hail fares by 1 cent per distance and time-based unit fare — which came into effect on Monday — are part of measures to support its taxi and private-hire vehicle (PHV) driver-partners.

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💸 Woman hit with $1,500 phone bill after racking up 222GB: 'How could I have used so much data?'

When she called the customer service hotline, a representative confirmed the charges but purportedly declined to share details of the data usage as the bill had not been generated.

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😮‍💨 Rescuers find 21 people on raft drifting in Indonesian waters after their boat sinks

They were rescued on Tuesday (March 31) morning, a day after their boat sank in rough seas.

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🇯🇵🇮🇩 Japan to coordinate on energy with Indonesia as Iran war disrupts supplies

Japan and Indonesia have agreed to step up coordination on energy security, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Tuesday (March 31).

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📱 Indonesia summons Meta and Google over non-compliance with child social media curbs

Indonesia requires social media companies with platforms it deems high risk to deactivate accounts belonging to children under 16, under a regulation that went into effect last week.

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🌎 Over 3 million Indian officials to begin counting world’s largest population

The once-in-a-decade population survey, originally due in 2021, will start on April 1 with a short window for citizens who wish to register themselves online, the government said on Monday (March 30).

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🚀 Nasa begins the countdown for humanity's first launch to the moon in 53 years

Nasa's Artemis II mission is expected to launch on Wednesday (April 1) evening.

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⚽️ 'Not a good performance': Lions beat Bangladesh 1-0 to finish unbeaten in Asian Cup qualifying

Despite finishing their Asian Cup qualifying campaign with a win and being unbeaten, Lions coach Gavin Lee wants the Lions to adapt better to big-match environments ahead of next year’s Asian Cup.

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😢 Selangor horror crash: Victim a father of 3 who was out to buy textbook for son

Amirul Hafiz Omar, 33, also worked two jobs to give his family a better life. A male car driver in his 20s, who is alleged to have drove under the influence of alcohol and drugs, has been remanded for police investigations.

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