Category: Asia

“Highly choreographed” tours to Xinjiang organised by the Chinese government are misleading and propagate false narratives about the troubled region, a U.S. official said, after China announced plans to invite European envoys to visit. China has been stepping up a push to counter growing criticism in the West and among rights groups about a controversial […]

With a mob telling them to “go to Pakistan,” a Muslim family was beaten with hockey sticks and iron rods in their house in northern India, officials and local media reported Saturday. “An 11-member family was injured after an argument over playing cricket escalated into a brawl in a village beneath Bhondsi on Thursday evening,” […]

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will finalize talks with China in early April regarding a $20 billion rail project that has been suspended since July last year, the Malaysian representative for the negotiations said late on Friday. The renegotiations could result in cost savings of more than 10 billion ringgit ($2.5 billion) for Malaysia, the […]

Pakistan’s prime minister on Friday hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad for taking a quick and clear stand on deadly terror attacks on mosques in New Zealand. In a live televised joint news conference with his Malaysian counterpart in capital Islamabad, Imran Khan said there were only a few Muslim […]

Malaysian premier says his country enjoys friendly relations with every country except for Israel Dubbing Israel as “a state of robbers”, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday said his country enjoys friendly relations with every country in the world except for Israel. “We are not against Jews but we cannot recognize Israel because of […]

JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Indonesian airline Garuda said on Friday it would cancel a $6 billion order for Boeing 737 MAX jets, citing concerns over passenger confidence, as Boeing tried to quell safety worries by making a previously optional cockpit warning light compulsory. National carrier Garuda is the first airline to publicly announce plans to scrap […]

A police guard was killed and driver injured after attackers opened fire on Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani’s car on Karachi’s Sharae Faisal Friday afternoon. The religious scholar’s car was targeted on main Sharae Faisal by attackers on a motorcycle. Mufti Zubair confirmed that Mufti Usmani was targeted in the attack. His son Imran Taqi confirmed […]

Two US service members were killed in Afghanistan on Friday while conducting an operation, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement. It gave no further details and withheld the names of the service members until next of kin were informed. The US military’s mission is focused on guiding and aiding Afghan forces battling […]

Women from Kachin minority are allowed to go home only if they leave baby behind, says HRW report Burmese and Chinese authorities are turning a blind eye to a growing trade in women from Myanmar’s Kachin minority, who are taken across the border, sold as wives to Chinese men and raped until they become pregnant, a […]