Category: Asia

Fri 12 July 2019: KURUNEGALA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Sri Lankan prosecutors said on Thursday tests would be needed to establish whether a Muslim doctor had sterilized Buddhist patients, while there was no evidence to support other charges against him of links to terrorist groups or money laundering. The case of Shegu Shihabdeen Mohamed Shafi […]

Wed 10 July 2019: India’s national carrier has removed recently introduced restrictions on the transportation of water from Makkah Pilgrims travelling from Jeddah to India on selected Air India flights can bring holy water from Makkah home with them. Air India took to Twitter to retract previous restrictions put in place to prevent the carrying […]

Wed 10 July 2019: The trend of southeast Asian nations rejecting being used as dumping grounds for Western waste has continued with Indonesia declaring that it will ship eight containers of trash back to Australia. The shipment landed in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, in mid-June after being sent from Brisbane. It was supposed to […]

Tue 09 July 2019: Bollywood actress Esha Gupta has stirred up controversy online, after accusing a Delhi-based hotelier of “raping her with his eyes.” “This guy was literally raping me with his eyes. He was requested to behave thrice and then leave..then eventually 2 guards had to be around me..even the security cam can confirm […]

Mon 08 July 2019: At least 29 people were killed Monday after a bus careered off one of India’s busiest roads which has become known as the “highway to hell” because of its poor safety record. The driver was suspected to have fallen asleep before the bus crashed into a railing and fell into a […]

Sun 07 July 2019: Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowing up a car bomb in central Ghazni province on Sunday, government officials and the Taliban said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for detonating the bomb near the National […]

Sat 06 July 2019: In recent years due to poor infrastructure, lack of proper water policy, say experts “Only rain can help us,” said a resident of Chennai, the capital of India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, voicing her frustration over its mismanagement of a severe water crisis. Shreya Singh, a consultant in central Chennai, […]

Fri 05 July 2019: A Muslim doctor falsely accused of secretly sterilizing Buddhist women in Sri Lanka remains in detention weeks after his arrest, despite investigators saying he was framed. Mohamed Shafi was arrested on May 24 over claims he had carried out the illegal sterilizations of thousands of Sinhalese women. But court documents seen […]

Fri 05 July 2019: The Malaysian producer of Hollywood film “The Wolf of Wall Street” and stepson of the country’s disgraced ex-leader was Friday charged with illegally receiving almost $250 million from state fund 1MDB.Riza Aziz pleaded not guilty to five charges of money laundering when he appeared in a Kuala Lumpur court.He is accused […]