Category: Asia

PESHAWAR,  A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced two men, including a local government official, to life in prison on Thursday for their role in the brutal campus lynching two years ago of a university student accused of blasphemy. Mashal Khan, 23, was attacked and killed by a mob on the campus of a university in Mardan, […]

A recent employability report has found that over 80 percent of engineers in India are unemployable as they lack the technological skills required by employers now. very year, thousands of engineering graduates pass out of college, but only a tiny handful of them are trained in the skills that employers need now. Over 80 percent […]

Vivek Oberoi has stepped into the shoes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his biopic, titled PM Narendra Modi. The trailer of the Omung Kumar-directed film was just released. ivek Oberoi stars as Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the biopic of the latter, titled PM Narendra Modi. The trailer of the biopic, directed by Omung […]

China’s first ever cloned K-9 police dog has started training at a police base in the country’s southeast as of March 5, media reports said Wednesday. The two-month-old wolfdog was cloned from a seven-year-old female wolfdog by Yunnan Agricultural University and Beijing Sinogene Biotechnology Co Ltd, a company engaged in commercial pet cloning and gene […]

A teacher at a reputable college in Pakistan’s Punjab province was stabbed to death by a student for organizing a co-ed party. Reports say the attacker believed the inclusion of females at the event was vulgar and blasphemous. Students were gathering in order to plan a “farewell party” when their classmate sprang on English language professor Khalid […]

Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi had been arrested in London on behalf of the Indian authorities, British police said on Wednesday. India had asked Britain in August to extradite Modi, one of the main suspects charged in the $2bn loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB), India’s biggest banking fraud. Police said Modi, 48, […]

Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa, commander of Pakistan army’s southern command, says fencing to start from next week Pakistan is going to fence its border with neighboring Iran in an attempt to stop militants’ cross-border movement, and smuggling, a Pakistani army general said. Speaking at a seminar in Quetta city, Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa, […]

Government says it needs extra land around main island of Lantau for housing Hong Kong plans to build one of the world’s largest artificial islands, city officials have announced. The government’s HK$624bn (£60bn) proposal to reclaim 1,000ha of land around the territory’s largest island, Lantau, has been touted as a solution to the pressing housing shortage […]

Dozens of posts containing disinformation spread, with fears people may not trust results of a legitimate election The spread of fake news and disinformation has spiked in Indonesia in recent months, weeks before millions are scheduled to vote in the country’s elections. Data released in a new report from Mafindo, an organisation focused on combating fake news […]