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Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each weekA huge cleanup operation is taking place after a fire devastated one of the world’s biggest secondhand clothes markets.Thousands of traders’ stalls were destroyed in the blaze that started at about 10pm on 1 January and consumed large sections of Kantamanto...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra made required wealth declaration to national anti-corruption commissionThailand’s prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, has declared £324m in assets including a collection of 217 designer handbags and 75 luxury watches in submissions on her wealth to a government body.Paetongtarn, daughter of the billionaire ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, took office in September, the fourth member of the powerful family to lead Thailand. Continue reading...

Yoon Suk Yeoul has vowed to ‘fight to the end’ as he resists attempts to hold him accountable amid political crisisSouth Korean anti-corruption officials attempting to arrest the country’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, must know by now what he meant by his repeated vows to “fight to the end”.In the month since his calamitous declaration of martial law, Yoon, along with most of...

Anti-corruption officials say they faced human wall of 200 presidential personnel at his official residenceInvestigators abandon attempt to arrest South Korean presidentInsurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president does not have immunity.Yoon’s lawyers have said the arrest warrant was illegal and invalid because the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials did not have the authority under South...