Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s vice president and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate, says, ‘Taiwan must win this battle’. China’s military has promised to “crush” any efforts to promote Taiwan’s independence, a day before a crucial election on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims is part of its territory. Hundreds of thousands of people […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: The needless controversy surrounding the Tamil film Annapoorani, which was removed by Netflix, could have been avoided had the ‘upper’ caste people outraged over a dialogue actually read the very text they were seeking to defend. Another needless controversy over culture and food, provoked, as usual, by Hindutva hot-heads has broken […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: North Korea carried out public executions of people who had violated COVID-19 regulations in previous years, a South Korean state-run think tank claimed in its latest report. A white paper on human rights issued by the Korea Institute for National Unification, citing a North Korean defector who arrived in Seoul last […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: India saw 605 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours as of Wednesday (January 10) morning, government data said. There were 3,643 active cases as of 8 am on Wednesday, representing a net decrease of 276 cases since Tuesday. Four people – two in Karnataka and Kerala each – died to contracting the […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: New Delhi: Bilkis Bano smiled for the first time in a year and a half today, she said in a letter thanking the Supreme Court for its judgement undoing the remission given to those who raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots. “Today is truly the New […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: Iran’s trade and supply of oil to China has stalled after Tehran reportedly decided to withhold shipments, demanding higher prices from Beijing. According to the Reuters news agency, citing five traders who handle Iranian oil supplies or are familiar with the transactions, Iranian sellers told Chinese buyers early last month that they were […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: The South Korean parliament on Tuesday passed a law to ban trade of dog meat by 2027. There were 208 votes in favor and two abstentions for the bill, which bans the breeding, butchering, distributing and selling of dogs for meat, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. “This is history in the making,” […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: China announced Monday that it arrested a foreigner accused of supplying intelligence to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). According to the Beijing-based daily Global Times, the country’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) initiated “criminal measures” against the alleged spy, who ran a foreign consultancy. It identified the person just as […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: India’s Supreme Court has quashed the remission given to 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murdering her relatives during anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002. The top court on Monday directed the 11 men to surrender […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: Questions raised over official turnout of 40 percent after opposition boycott call and reports of empty polling stations. Dhaka, Bangladesh – Sheikh Hasina has secured her fifth term as Bangladeshi prime minister in an election whose outcome was decided the moment its schedule was announced in early November when the main opposition boycotted […]
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