Category: Asia

Fri 19 Apr 2019: The man had become confused by the symbols on the electronic voting machine An Indian man cut off his index finger on Thursday after mistakenly voting for the wrong party in the country’s national election. Pawan Kumar has gone viral after two videos posted on social media showed his index finger […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Several Roman Catholic devotees were nailed to wooden crosses in a gory Good Friday ritual in the Philippines, and others flogged themselves or took part in religious plays to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering. Four men and a woman, some wearing crowns of twigs, were escorted […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her Islamic school’s principal. Nusrat Jahan Rafi told her family she was lured to the roof […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: The meal cost 6 yuan (68p) but the father only had 5 yuan (57p) on him He decided to leave daughter at the eatery and pick her up the next day Restaurant owner called police after suspecting the child had been abandoned A desperate Chinese father who didn’t have enough money […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: Pakistan’s prime minister reshuffled his cabinet Thursday, changing the portfolios of some key ministers just hours after the country’s finance minister stepped down amid a wave of criticism over government handling of a financial crisis that has sent prices soaring. Finance Minister Asad Umar said he informed Prime Minister Imran Khan […]

Thu 18 Apr 2019: The tragic murder of a school girl, lured onto a roof and set on fire by classmates for reporting sexual abuse by her principal, has provoked outrage across Bangladesh and beyond, with politicians and the UN voicing disgust. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was pinned to the ground by a group of students […]

Thu 18 Apr 2019: Amid rising tensions, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he has called Pakistan’s nuclear bluff by launching airstrikes while also claiming that New Delhi has the “mother of nuclear bombs.” “Earlier, terrorists from Pakistan would come here and go back after conducting an attack. Pakistan would threaten us, saying it has […]

Thu 18 Apr 2019: QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen wearing Pakistani police and paramilitary uniforms ambushed a bus before dawn Thursday and killed 14 people after going through their ID cards and forcing them out on a remote part of a coastal highway in restive southwestern Baluchistan province, officials said. Hours after the ambush, a […]