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Heartbreaking footage of orangutan trying to fight off excavator
Deforestation alongside global warming are the major causes of extinction. While humans are destroying their homes, animals are nothing but helpless witnessed. However, when saw his home is going to be erase from the Earth, this orangutan decided to fight
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Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed in less than a year
NAYPYITAW: The Myanmar government has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and children during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates
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Modi meets mum, 95, after Indian election landslide
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped in on Sunday on his 95-year-old mother after his election landslide, a day ahead of a victory rally in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Modi, 68, told his 47.6 million Twitter followers that
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Trump backs Kim’s assessment on Biden
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un agree on their assessment of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, aligning the president with an authoritarian foreign leader over a former US
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Policeman killed, 4 others injured in Songkhla bombing
SONGKHLA: A policeman was killed while four others were injured when a bomb, believed to have been buried underground, exploded when police were carrying out checks behind a railway station in Chana, Songkhla. Ninth Division police chief Police Lieutenant General
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All political parties warned against using mosque and suraus for politics
PUCHONG: Perak ruler Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah today issued a stern warning against attempts to hold political events at any mosques and surau in the state by both sides of the political divide. The statement came amid uproar over an
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Brickbats and bouquets for Najib and Dr Mahathir over video clip
PUCHONG: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and current Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad received brickbats and bouquets following a Twitter message posted by the former who appeared in a music video clip featuring new singer, Fazz Ahmad.
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Taiwan celebrates same-sex marriages as first country in Asia to legalise them
Same-sex couples tie the knot in Taiwan as it becomes the first Asian country to legalise gay marriages. Anew page in history is turned. One week ago, Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalise same-sex weddings. Since then, they
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Liew: I did not interfere with Singapore’s judicial system
PUCHONG: Law Minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong denied claims that he had tried to interfere with the Singaporean judiciary over the death sentence meted out on Pannir Selvam Pranthaman. In a statement, Liew said he made representation to the Singaporean
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Modi kept his job; young Indians worry about theirs
Asad Ahmed, one of about 1.2 million young Indians entering the cutthroat job market each month, diligently scribbles notes at a computer class in New Delhi. While nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a new five-year term promising to step
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