Category: Asia

Fri 23 August 2019: Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by extremists that killed 258 people, officials said Friday. President Maithripala Sirisena has been extending the emergency on the 22nd of each month since the April 21 attacks on three hotels and three churches. However, his office confirmed that […]

Thu 22 August 2019: In a startling revelation, US-based cyber security firm FireEye said on Thursday that hackers broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 68 lakh records containing patient and doctor information. Without naming the website, FireEye said cyber criminals — mostly China-based — are directly selling data stolen from healthcare organisations and […]

Wed 21 August 2019: In images shared online, the students can be seen parading through the university campus in single file with their new buzzcuts, past security personnel and other staff at the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Safai village on Tuesday. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh are investigating a mass hazing incident at […]

Tue 20 August 2019: A nationwide bid to tackle the Southeast Asian nation’s mammoth marine waste problem. As the country celebrated its 74th Independence Day anniversary, volunteers and civil servants scoured for plastic rubbish and other debris, collecting truckloads of trash across the 17,000 island archipelago. Numbers were still being tabulated, but it was estimated […]

Tue 20 August 2019: Some 3,500 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been cleared to return home to Myanmar beginning this week, a top official said Monday, nearly two years after a military crackdown sparked their exodus. Some 740,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in August 2017 from a military offensive in Myanmar — joining 200,000 already […]

Hassan Taib Chief of Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN). Mon 19 August 2019: A Thai deputy prime minister dismissed on Monday a demand made by a Malay Muslim group to free those detained over alleged links to the long-running insurgency in Thailand’s mainly Muslim south as a pre-condition for formal talks. Officials of the Barisan Revolusi […]

Fri 16 August 2019: Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, on Monday faces the biggest of five trials linked to a multi-billion-dollar scam at state fund 1MDB, although lawyers are seeking a delay to allow time for the completion of a previous trial. The first trial, which began in April and revolves around former 1MDB […]

Thu 15 August 2019: Myanmar insurgents killed at least 15 people on Thursday, most of them members of the security forces, in attacks on an elite military college and other government targets in the country’s north, an army spokesman said. The Northern Alliance, a collection of armed groups in the region, claimed responsibility for the […]

Thu 15 August 2019: JAKARTA: Indonesia has shipped tonnes of Australian garbage out of the country, an official said Tuesday (Aug 13), as Southeast Asian nations push back against serving as dumping grounds for foreign trash. Eight containers of trash – weighing about 210 tonnes – left Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya on Monday aboard a cargo ship […]

Wed 14 August 2019: Hong Kong police are touting their ability to spray protesters with dye in order to track participants. Hong Kong Police Force Superintendent Louis Lau Siu-Pong said in avideo posted to Facebook on Sunday that police are looking to introduce a portable spraying device which would mist a dye, referred to in the […]