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DRIVING THE DAY
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Groundbreaker and Innovator Event
On
Wednesday, July 21, Asia Society Northern California will host an off-the-record Executive Roundtable program on the Myanmar Conflict and Crisis with the
Honorable
Scot Marciel, former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar and Visiting Scholar, Visiting Practitioner Fellow of Southeast Asia at Stanford University s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) and
Consul General Toru Maeda, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco and former Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Japan in Myanmar. Managing Director of Asia Society Policy Institute
Debra Eisenman will moderate the discussion.
The executive roundtable discussion will assess Myanmar’s current challenges, security issues, the ongoing humanitarian crisis, hampered economic reform, strained bilateral relationships, and governance challenges that have hampered its progress as a nation. Are there opportunities for Myanmar going forward with the Biden A
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A screengrab of a fake Interpol identity card and WhatsApp message used by scammers. Picture by Singapore Police Force via TODAY
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SINGAPORE, April 22 More than S$3.9 million (RM12 million) has been lost this year by victims of a new scam where swindlers pose as officials from the Singapore High Court or Interpol asking for payments to settle concocted offences, the police said yesterday.
The scammers told the victims that they were being investigated for money laundering activities and referred the victims to an Interpol officer called “Eric Wong Teng Hui”, the police said.
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