Category: Asia

Tue 12July 2022: Sri Lankan immigration officials say they have prevented the president’s brother and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, as anger rises against the powerful family for a debilitating economic crisis. It was not immediately clear where Rajapaksa, who also holds United States citizenship, was trying to go. He resigned as […]

Mon 11 July 2022: The parliament of Sri Lanka will reconvene on July 15, and a new president will be elected on July 20, according to the parliamentary speaker, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa decides to quit on Wednesday under a terrible economic crisis. Following continued protests that call for his resignation due to his inability […]

Mon 11 July 2022: In a report released on Monday, the UN predicted that the world’s population will reach eight billion on November 15 and that, in 2023, India would overtake China as the world’s most populous nation. Without providing details, Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated that the global population milestone “is a reminder of […]

Sun 10 July 2022: The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Sunday continued to occupy the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, a day after they barged into the premises and set on fire one of the buildings protesting over the nation’s severe economic crisis even as the island nation is still […]

Sat 09 July 2022: After protestors seized the president’s official mansion and office in the capital, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made an offer to resign. According to a statement from the prime minister’s office, he informed the speaker of the house that he was prepared to resign so that an all-party administration could […]

Sat 09 July 2022: In one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-ridden nation this year, thousands of protestors in Sri Lanka burst through police barricades and attacked the president’s mansion and office. “The president was escorted to safety,” the source said, adding that troops fired in the air to prevent angry crowds from […]

Fri 08 July 2022: Police of Japan’s Nara prefecture announced on Friday the creation of a 90-member team to investigate the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “The group will be headed by the chief of the criminal department,” the police told a press conference. Officers of the prefecture’s police did not respond […]