DEAD BODIES On a good day a picker can find trash worth 30,000 kyat (US$10), but more often the take-home pay is around US$3. “Before we started working there was lots of plastic, cans and bottles on the creek,” says Kyu Kyu Khine, 39, who…

SHANGHAI: Marvel’s superheroes began their return to China’s massive movie market after an apparent ban of nearly four years on Tuesday, with fans streaming into cinemas to watch Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The Disney-owned studio’s hugely popular franchises have been absent from Chinese screens since…

TAIPEI: Taiwan will speed up the development of drones for military use taking into account the lessons of the war in Ukraine and the threat posed by China, the island’s defence ministry said on Tuesday (Feb 7). Unmanned aircraft have played a crucial role on…

Hundreds of skulls and bones, neatly packed into plastic boxes, fill the small room almost up to the ceiling.This real-life chamber of horrors, in an anonymous room at the San Fernando cemetery in Seville, holds the remains of 1,786 people. All were dug out of…

JAKARTA: In preparation for the upcoming dry season, Indonesian authorities are looking to use “weather modification technology” to produce artificial rain that will help prevent peatland fires.  According to state news agency Antara, Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM) head Hartono said that the agency…

BENGALURU: India unveiled on Monday (Feb 6) its largest helicopter factory, which can turn out at least 1,000 aircraft a year, as part of a defence self-reliance push to counter China’s growing assertiveness. New Delhi also announced a double-digit increase in its annual defence budget…