Asia
Back to homepage
Five bodies spotted in Indian Himalayas
NEW DELHI: Five bodies were spotted high on a mountain in the Indian Himalayas on Monday during an aerial search for eight climbers feared swept away in an avalanche last week, a government official said. The climbers – four from
Read More
Sri Lankan Muslim ministers quit portfolios; governors resigned
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Muslim ministers have quit their government portfolios and two governors quit their positions following demands by a Buddhist monk Athuraliye Rathana Thero who demanded for their resignations. There is a total of three ministers and five junior
Read More
Woman left successful career in New York to build sustainable bamboo houses
Elora Hardy and her father John Hardy believe that you can be happy and healthy in your home when it’s the closest possible to nature. So even when Elora had a successful career in the NY fashion scene, she left to
Read More
DMK: Hindi not in the blood of people of Tamil Nadu
The DMK president said the party will ‘wage a war’ against the BJP-led government at the Centre if any attempt is made to impose Hindi. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief MK Stalin on Saturday attacked the Centre over the emphasis on Hindi in
Read More
‘Interfaith understanding is in line with the Constitution, Quran’
PUCHONG: Interfaith understanding does not go against the Federal Constitution and it is different from proselytization. National University of Singapore Professor of Sociology Syed Farid al-Attas also said that he was in favour of Muslims learning other religions as it
Read More
US-China Conflict: Will ASEAN Centrality Be Derailed?
ON 23 May 2019, the US Senate formally re-introduced a bill known as the South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act. Its sponsors, a bipartisan group of 14 senators, say the bill is aimed at checking an expansive
Read More
Rouhani: We will not be bullied to negotiate with US
TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani stressed that Tehran will not be “bullied” into negotiations with the United States and laid down the Islamic republic’s conditions. “We are men of reason and negotiation … if one sits at the negotiating table with
Read More
Ten dead in Islamic State’s suicide car bomb attack
RAQA: Ten people were killed and 20 wounded Saturday in a suicide car bomb attack in Raqa, a former stronghold of the Islamic State group (IS) in north Syria, a rights watchdog said. The explosion claimed the lives of five
Read More
Indian heatwave passed 50 degree Celcius
RAJASTHAN: Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke. The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu on Saturday, the
Read More
‘China ready to fight US on trade but door open for talks’
China is ready to fight the US on trade but the door is still open for talks, the country’s defence minister said. “On the trade friction started by the US: if the US wants to talk, we will keep
Read More