Category: Asia

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 […]

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 […]