Fri 21 October 2022: Following nearly 100 children’s deaths from acute kidney injury this year, the Indonesian government banned all syrup and liquid pharmaceutical prescription and over-the-counter sales on Wednesday. The ban was imposed as Southeast Asian health officials investigated an unexplained increase in the number of paediatric deaths from acute renal damage since January. […]
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Malaysia will hold a general election on Nov. 19, its election commission chief Abdul Ghani Salleh announced Thursday. More than 21 million eligible voters will go to the polls to cast their votes to elect the new government, he said in a press conference in Putrajaya. Thu 20 October 2022: The polls, a year earlier […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: In a tragic incident, the Jakarta Islamic Center mosque in Indonesia was destroyed by a fire during its renovation on Wednesday. Dramatic social media footage showed the moment the mosque’s dome collapsed. Firefighters were alerted about the blaze shortly after 3pm local time, with at least ten fire engines being dispatched […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: India’s opposition Congress party elected a former minister on Wednesday as its first president in 24 years not from the Gandhi dynasty, in an effort to reverse its electoral decline amid the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, was appointed by members over fellow politician Shashi […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is believed to be behind the abduction of a Palestinian man who was snatched from a street in the capital Kuala Lumpur and interrogated before being freed by police, a Malaysian news organisation has reported. Malaysia’s New Straits Times reported on Tuesday that the Palestinian computer programmer was bundled into one […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the August release of 11 men convicted and sentenced to life in prison for gang-raping a Muslim woman and murdering members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat religious riots, according to court documents. The approval letter from India’s home ministry, headed by Modi’s […]
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25 students of Killinochi Maha Vidyalayam were hospitalized in June 2022 after they were stung by a swarm of wasps. (FILE PHOTO) Mon 17 October 2022: Health officials reported that 42 students at a school in northern Sri Lanka were hospitalized on Monday following a wasp attack, the most recent of an increasing number of […]
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Mon 17 October 2022: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has continued his dominant electoral streak after being removed from office some six months ago. With eight National Assembly seats up for grabs in Sunday’s by-elections – three each in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces and two in Karachi city – the 70-year-old leader of […]
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Sat 15 October 2022: Indonesia banned ingredients linked to the deaths of 70 Gambian children from cough syrups on Saturday, as the Southeast Asian country investigates acute kidney damage that has killed more than 20 children in Jakarta this year, Reuters reported. BPOM, the food and drug regulator, also stated that it was looking into […]
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Sat 15 October 2022: Asia’s third-largest economy has registered impressive economic growth in recent decades but it fares poorly on UN human development indices. India has fallen six positions on the 2022 Global Hunger Index, ranking 107th out of 121 countries in a report published on Friday. Asia’s third-largest economy fared worse than other South Asian countries […]
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