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Thai elephants march in silence for Australian bushfires
A troupe of elephants and school students held a silent march at a Thai elephant camp today to pay their respects and raise awareness for the millions of animals killed in Australia’s raging bushfires. Elephants and their mahouts held up
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AirAsia, MAS cancel flights to Manila over volcano eruption
KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines today announced the cancellation of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Manila following the eruption of a volcano in the Philippines yesterday. The Taal Volcano south of Manila spewed ash and is expected to undergo
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China says will not change position on Taiwan after landslide election
TAIPEI: China will not change its position that Taiwan belongs to it, Beijing said yesterday, after President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election and said she would not submit to China’s threats, as state media warned she was courting disaster. The election
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Carrie Lam: Financial hub’s strengths intact despite protests
Hong Kong’s strengths as a global financial hub have not been undermined by months of pro-democracy protests, the Chinese-ruled city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, said today. Protests in Hong Kong escalated in June over a now-withdrawn bill which would have
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Senior police officer arrested in Kashmir on suspicion of aiding militants
SRINAGAR: A senior police officer has been arrested in Indian Kashmir and accused of aiding militants after he was found driving two suspected insurgents toward Jammu, Kashmir’s chief of police told reporters yesterday. The Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, claimed by both
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Flights temporarily suspended at Manila Airport as Taal Volcano spews ash
MANILA: The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) temporarily suspended flights to and from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), also known as Manila Airport, on Sunday night due to the presence of volcanic ash clouds on major traffic
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Taiwan votes in an election closely watched by China
TAIPEI: Polls opened in Taiwan today in presidential and parliamentary elections that will be closely watched by Beijing, which claims the democratic island as its own. China has ramped up efforts to get Taiwan to accept its rule, both through
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Masked gunman killed three, including toddler in Thailand shopping mall
BANGKOK: A masked gunman started a shooting spree that killed three people, including a two year old boy in a jewellery store robbery at a shopping mall in Lop Buri Province, at 8.45 pm yesterday. A closed circuit television (CCTV)
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India’s Supreme Court- Kashmir internet shutdown unconstitutional
India’s Supreme Court said today that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional, in a rebuke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The government imposed a communications lockdown in August after it withdrew the Muslim
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One woman reports a rape every 15 minutes in India
One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released yesterday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicised gang
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