Mon 24 March 2025: Rohingya mothers and caregivers will get food vouchers as the UN World Food Program and World Bank have partnered with the Bangladeshi government amid a serious fund cut to the Rohingya. The UN World Food Program (WFP) on Friday said that it has partnered with the Bangladeshi Ministry of Disaster Management […]
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Sun 23 March 2025: China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese national political adviser, to propose lowering the legal marriage age from 22 to 18. The drop in China’s marriage rate has been driven […]
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Sun 23 March 2025: The removal of the bounty comes days after Afghan group releases US citizen. The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesperson says. Despite the announcement on Saturday, the FBI still lists […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, it rapidly became one of the world’s most visited websites and, upon its eventual release in the app store, the most downloaded app. Since then, nearly every company has been racing to integrate Generative AI into their products—whether as standalone applications, embedded features, or even standalone […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: An eruption by Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, located in the southeastern part of Flores Island, spewed ash clouds more than 8km (5 miles) into the air, disrupting flights and raising emergency warnings to the highest level for residents and tourists. Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation warned locals and […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: China plans to provide artificial intelligence (AI) lessons for primary and secondary school students to foster their talents in the subject. Starting in the upcoming fall semester, children in the capital Beijing will be able to take at least eight class hours of AI instruction per academic year, the state-run Xinhua […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: Elon Musk’s social media platform X has filed a lawsuit against the Indian government over its use of takedown orders to request social media content be removed. X’s new lawsuit marks the platform’s latest challenge against the Indian government’s censorship powers and comes as Musk’s Starlink and Tesla prepare to enter […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Fri 21 March 2025: China has detected cases of norovirus at a school in the coastal city of Shanghai, state media reported on Wednesday. The cases were detected after some students experienced nausea and vomiting at a middle school in the Fengxian district in the biggest Chinese city and subsequent […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Police in India’s northern state of Punjab detained hundreds of farmers who have been protesting for over a year for better crop prices. Authorities also used bulldozers to dismantle their makeshift camps. Protest leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal were among those detained by the Punjab police in the early hours of Thursday. […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Shutdown of US-funded news outlets ends more than 80 years of uncensored news broadcasts in China. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese state media and pro-China commentators have welcomed the de facto shutting down of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) following the latest budget cuts by the administration of United States President […]
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