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Japan Tobacco buys Philippine cigarette maker for close to $1 billion
Just shortly after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a nationwide law that prohibits smoking in public, Japan Tobacco, the world's fourth-largest tobacco manufacturer, thought...
Smoking ban comes into force in the Philippines
Hard times for smokers in the Philippines began on July 23 when a nationwide smoking ban decree signed by President Rodrigo Duterte back in...
Smoking in public in the Philippines now carries up to four months jail time
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte got serious with his plans to ban public smoking all over the country by signing a respective executive order on...
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Troubled Myanmar readies to open for tourism
Seemingly irrespective of civil unrest, countless skirmishes between guerilla-style freedom fighters and the army, over 300 roadside bomb attacks since the February 1 coup,...
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Singapore considers setting up robotic security and defense squad
Singapore has plans to expand the city-state’s defense and security forces with mobile robots and through its state agency for defense science and technology...