Category: Asia

Tue 30 July 2019: Turkey will send an observation delegation to China’s Xinjiang region, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Tuesday after discussing the situation of Uyghur Turks with his Chinese counterpart. Many refer to China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region — home to many ethnic minorities, including the Turkic Uyghur people — as East Turkestan. Uyghurs, […]

Mon 29 July 2019: At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice-presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh’s office, the government said in a statement on Monday. The attack on the office of President Ashraf Ghani’s pick for vice president in the […]

Sun 28 July 2019: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh refuse to return to Myanmar unless they are recognised as an ethnic group in their home country, leaders told visiting Myanmar officials on Sunday as fresh repatriation talks started. A campaign by Myanmar’s military in response to insurgent attacks in 2017 drove 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee […]

Pakistani authorities found and seized a drone in Chaghi district of southwestern province of Balochistan on July 19, 2019. (Balochistan levies) Sat 27 July 2019: A foreign drone was seized from Pakistan’s Chaghi district bordering Iran and Afghanistan, confirmed an official while talking to Arab News on Friday, fueling speculation among security analysts and drone […]

Nepalese army personnel in Kathmandu. Photo: Xinhua Fri 26 July 2019: At least 67 people were injured, 41 others still missing as heavy rains triggered landslides, floods this week The death toll from floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in Nepal rose to 111, with 41 others still missing, a home ministry official said […]

Thu 25 July 2019: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has dismissed criticism of his ‘begging’ while visiting the US, saying he ‘never bowed down to anyone,’ and likened his triumphant homecoming to “winning the World Cup.” The premier arrived home after a three-day trip to the United States where he met Donald Trump. The goal […]

  Malaysia’s former king has divorced a Russian ex-beauty queen just months after news of their wedding emerged and he abdicated in a first for the country, his lawyer said. The former Miss Moscow, however, says she is still married to Sultan Muhammad V, and has continued to post pictures of the couple on social […]

Wed 24 July 2019: The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan is one of the longest-running conflicts in modern history, and the fact that both rivals possess nuclear weapons aggravates every escalation of tensions. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his country would be ready to eliminate nuclear weapons if India did as well. When asked […]

Tue 23 July 2019: Outgoing deputy RBI governor Viral Acharya suggests India’s economy could benefit from more private-sector involvement. An increase in government borrowing runs the risk of flooding the debt market, while making it expensive for companies to borrow, according to the outgoing Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya. In a […]