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A youth-led documentary follows the discovery of catfish with unusual bumps in the Mekong and the community investigation that grew around them. Its release, timed ahead of COP31, highlights a monitoring network spanning 14 secondary schools in Thailand’s Nong Khai Province.
Malaysia’s palace says Najib Razak’s conditional house-arrest pardon is clear, but the attorney general seeks legal clarification. Najib returned to prison after a medical trip and has not started house arrest.
Police say a fourth senior officer allegedly approved interception and deletion of records. The accusations remain unproved; the new question is how surveillance authorization and evidence can be independently checked.