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-- 2021-04-11 19:07:59
China’s cyber regulator has launched a hotline to report online comments that defame the ruling Communist Party and its history, vowing to crack down on “historical nihilists” ahead...
-- 2021-04-11 17:35:21
The United Arab Emirates has selected the first Arab woman to train as an astronaut, as the Gulf country rapidly expands into the space sector to diversify its economy. Emirati national Nora al-Matro...
-- 2021-04-11 16:31:11
Eight miners have been rescued and 21 remain trapped in a coal mine that flooded in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, citing a local emergen...
REUTERS 2021-04-11 15:09:15
A problem with the electrical distribution grid of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility caused an incident at the site on Sunday, Iranian Press TV reported, a day after Tehran launched new advanced ur...
-- 2021-04-11 09:03:10
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Java island on Saturday, killing seven people, severely wounding two and damaging hundreds of buildings in several cities, the country’s d...
Reuters 2021-04-11 08:12:06
Myanmar security forces fired rifle grenades at protesters in a town near Yangon on Friday, killing more than 80 people, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) monitoring group and...
KYODO 2021-04-10 21:00:11
Over 70 people were killed in Bago in central Myanmar on Friday as the military opened fire on anti-coup protesters and others, local media reported Saturday. Soldiers reportedly surrounded residents...
-- 2021-04-10 20:33:55
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated Iran's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation on Saturday while overseeing the launch of advanced centrifuges at the underground Natanz nuclear plant to ma...
-- 2021-04-10 19:24:50
India’s Congress party president Sonia Gandhi has alleged that Indian central government exported Covid-19 vaccine and thus allowed shortage in India. Indian opposition leader came up with the...
-- 2021-04-10 16:52:27
Coronavirus infections in the South Asia sub-region surpassed the grim milestone of 15 million on Saturday, a Reuters tally shows, led by India’s record daily infections and vaccine shortages....
REUTERS 2021-04-10 16:47:04
An alliance of ethnic armies in Myanmar that has opposed the junta's crackdown on anti-coup protests attacked a police station in the east on Saturday and at least 10 policemen were killed, domestic...
-- 2021-04-10 15:34:12
Saudi Arabia executed three soldiers Saturday it accused of committing ‘high treason,’ without elaborating on which enemy the kingdom believed the men aided. The state-run Saudi Press Age...
Reuters 2021-04-10 14:03:21
India reported a record 145,384 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday and the highest number of deaths in more than five months, as it grapples with an overwhelming second-wave of infections that has forced...
-- 2021-04-10 10:32:40
Anti-death penalty group Reprieve said on Friday that 80 per cent of those sentenced to death for crimes in Saudi Arabia while minors still face execution despite reforms announced in 2020. Saudi aut...
Reuters 2021-04-10 08:46:43
Myanmar’s junta said on Friday that a protest campaign against its rule was dwindling since people wanted peace, and that it would hold elections within two years, the first timeframe it has giv...
-- 2021-04-09 19:04:39
The junta will hold elections within two years and hand over power to the elected government, military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun told a news conference in the capital, Naypyitaw, reports...
-- 2021-04-09 18:35:38
India's opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose a suspension on COVID-19 vaccine exports, predicting ‘catastrophic effects’ on the e...
-- 2021-04-09 16:51:31
Nepal is battling its worst forest fires in years, officials said on Friday, with smoke wafting across its mountains and souring the air as it settles into the bowl that holds capital city Kathmandu,...
Reuters 2021-04-09 12:02:30
A government panel of experts is investigating for any domestic cases of blood clotting, even mild ones, as a side effect of the two Covid-19 vaccines being administered in India, financial daily Mint...
-- 2021-04-09 11:39:43
The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a Myanmar state-owned gems enterprise in a bid to curtail the military junta’s ability to generate revenues, according to a statement. The mo...
REUTERS 2021-04-09 11:23:41
At a meeting at the Portuguese unit of Macau’s public broadcaster TDM on March 10, two senior journalists addressed about 25 staff, reading new editorial rules requiring them to promote “p...
-- 2021-04-09 10:05:59
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rejected calls from states to offer coronavirus vaccinations to younger people to help contain a record surge in cases. Many states in India, the world’s...
REUTERS 2021-04-08 17:33:41
New Zealand on Thursday temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from t...
REUTERS 2021-04-08 17:02:12
India's COVID-19 cases have soared 13-fold in barely two months, a vicious second wave propelled by open disregard for safety protocols in much of the vast country. Election rallies led by Prime Mini...
-- 2021-04-08 16:10:42
Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with hunting rifles and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domest...
-- 2021-04-08 15:42:36
At a time when all the countries in the world are racing against time to give Covid-19 vaccine to most of their population, the little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has created a record. The country may...
-- 2021-04-08 11:25:59
The Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant descended into chaos at the weekend when a former title holder declared that the winner was ineligible because she was divorced, and forcibly removed her crown. A vid...
-- 2021-04-07 20:39:13
Serum Institute of India (SII) needs around Rs 30 billion to scale up production from the current capacity of 60 to 65 million per month in three months. SII Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla c...
-- 2021-04-07 19:35:51
Isolated North Korea has continued to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organisation, reports AP. At the beginning of the pandemic more th...
-- 2021-04-07 19:18:58
Myanmar troops fired at anti-coup protesters on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding several, media said, as a series of small blasts hit the commercial capital Yangon and a Chinese-owne...
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