Category: Asia

A member of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) swings a baton at a Jamaat-e-Islam activist on February 5, 2013, during a day-long strike in Dhaka.  © 2013 Reuters Fri 09 August 2019: A U.N. human rights body called on Bangladeshi authorities on Friday to investigate credible allegations that police and security forces routinely torture detainees […]

Thu 08 August 2019: US firms’ Q1 manufacturing investments more than triple whole of last year’s The United States is set to supplant China as Malaysia’s top source of investment, amid an increasingly bitter trade war between the two superpowers that has reconfigured global supply chains, especially in developing South-east Asia. Malaysia has lost out […]

Wed 07 August 2019: Sri Lanka’s prime minister on Tuesday told a parliamentary committee investigating the Islamic State-inspired Easter Sunday bomb attacks that the country should prepare itself for new types of terrorism. Existing policing, investigative agencies and laws had experience with ethnic Tamil separatists during Sri Lanka’s civil war, but Sri Lanka must now […]

Tue 06 August 2019: Sushma Swaraj, India’s former external affairs minister and a leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, died Tuesday at a hospital in New Delhi. She was 67. Swaraj died of a heart attack and was rushed to the emergency ward of All India Institute of Medical Science hospital, the […]

Mon 05 August 2019: This is the shocking moment a man decided to cut his birthday cake – by shooting it with a gun. लाइव बर्थडे।। बागपत में फायरिंग कर काट केक@bptpolice @igrangemeerut @Uppolice pic.twitter.com/j9QGVmXW62 — Shadab Rizvi (@ShadabNBT) July 31, 2019 Footage shows the unnamed 24-year-old brandishing the allegedly illegal firearm while celebrating with his group […]

Sun 04 August 2019: The female SHO was handed over the cases that were related to women and minor girls Islamabad: A Pakistani female Station House Officer (SHO) has investigated 200 cases of rape and sexual abuse following her appointment two months ago, a media report said. Kulsoom Fatima was appointed the first female SHO […]

This handout photograph taken on January 5, 2019 and received on August 2 from the Action for Defenceless People Foundation (ADPF) shows conjoined Bangladeshi twins Rabeya and Rukaya during their visit to Budapest, in preparation for their final separation surgery in Dhaka.Image Credit: AFP Sat 03 August 2019: Surgeons from Budapest-based medical aid charity and […]

Fri 02 August 2019: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top court will hear arguments every day in an effort to resolve a decades-old dispute over what should be built on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said on Friday. The move strengthens hopes for eventual resolution of a quarrel at the […]