Mon 31 January 2022: Generals court country’s monks to try and win respect in an environment where ‘almost everybody hates them’. A plan is under way for Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar’s military and leader of last year’s coup, to build the biggest sculpture of a sitting Buddha in the world – part of […]
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Mon 31 January 2022: The New Zealand government defended its MIQ strict quarantine policy after a pregnant New Zealand journalist said she had to seek help from the Taliban after her requests to return to her home country were denied. Charlotte Bellis who was forced to leave Qatar after discovering she was pregnant in a country where it is illegal to give birth outside of marriage says she has been given asylum by the Taliban in Afghanistan to give birth. Charlotte Bellis and her partner, Jim Huylebroek. Bellis had been […]
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Sun 30 January 2022: After being shut down last week and thousands of hamsters culled due to coronavirus fears, dozens of pet businesses that sold them in Hong Kong may reopen on Sunday, according to the Hong Kong authorities. After tracing an outbreak to a worker in a shop where 11 hamsters tested sick, authorities […]
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Sun 30 January 2022: According to an employee, Afghan radio station Hareem Zan in the province of Badakhshan in the country’s north-east resumed operations after closing owing to fear of the Taliban. The official explanation offered by management at the time for the shutdown was financial difficulties, but the true reason was fear of the […]
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Sun 30 January 2022: Pegasus and a missile system were the ‘centerpieces’ of a $2bn deal from 2017, the newspaper says. The Indian government led by Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi acquired spyware from Israel as part of a weapon purchase deal in 2017, according to a New York Times report. The Indian government denied it bought […]
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Sat 29 January 2022: A beach on Thailand’s east coast was closed Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand washed ashore. The leak from the pipeline of the Star Petroleum Refining Public Company started late Tuesday and had been brought under control one day later, said the company, estimating […]
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Fri 28 January 2022: Balochistan, a resource-rich province bordering Iran and Afghanistan, has been fighting a decades-long insurgency against the Pakistani government headed by armed ethnic groups. During the last couple years. In response to a deadly incident in the Balochistan area, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan pledged that he will eradicate the South Asian […]
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Fri 28 January 2022: A special “charity train” carrying 748 tons of emergency goods under the coordination of Turkey’s government left for Afghanistan from the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The train, with aid from 11 humanitarian organisations coordinated by the state Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), is bound for a […]
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Thu 27 January 2022: Mahathir Mohamad’s health is “improving,” according to his spokesperson on Tuesday. “His appetite has also improved and he is interacting well with the family,” Sufi Yusuff, spokesperson of the former Malaysian prime minister, told Anadolu Agency over the phone from Kuala Lumpur. Yusuff said Mahathir “has been in and out of […]
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Women wait for free bread in front of a bakery in Kabul. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 27 January 2022: On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres informed the United Nations Security Council that Afghanistan is “hanging on a thread.” He asked countries to authorise all transactions necessary for humanitarian aid to be carried out. He also argued for […]
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