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A convicted killer’s freedom now hangs by the thread of a hotel booking error. Erin Patterson, dubbed the “mushroom murderer,” is appealing her conviction.…
As Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in China for the second…
Jinjiang, a city in south-eastern China, has seen a factory…
TAIPEI, Taiwan: Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations of 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part of Beijing’s strategy to unsettle and intimidate the island. The large-scale Chinese deployment…
Shortly after the military coup in 2021, those tensions escalated again. HOW THE KAREN ARE TREATED Mr Uthai Payapthanakorn works for a Thai-Karen non-governmental organisation (NGO) which has seen firsthand how the Myanmar military is handling the insurgency. “Previously, they mostly used ground troops, but…
NEW DELHI: India’s finance minister on Wednesday (Feb 1) presented the government’s last full budget in parliament before a general election due next year that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely projected to win. “In spite of the massive slowdown globally caused by COVID-19 and…
MERSING: The Malaysian government has no intention of declaring a flood emergency for now as only certain districts in several states are affected, said Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on Saturday (Jan 28). The states of Johor, Pahang and Sabah have been hit by…
He said that the suspension also “symbolises a fresh start” as the president gets the opportunity “to announce all the new things that are going to be done”. Unsustainable debt and a severe balance of payment crisis on top of lingering scars of the COVID-19…
NEW DELHI: Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed on Saturday (Jan 28) in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises about 300km south of the capital New Delhi, police at the crash site told AFP. “We have located the wreckage of one of the planes…
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