Category: Asia

Pakistan’s military is taking a key role in the development of one of the world’s biggest untapped copper and gold deposits, which is currently stalled by a multi-billion dollar legal wrangle with foreign mining firms, multiple sources familiar with the situation said. The Reko Diq mine has become a test case for Prime Minister Imran […]

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al Jubeir met the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday India and Saudi Arabia have agreed to increase co-operation on combating terrorism through the formation of a strategic partnership council. Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al Jubeir is in India to follow up […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore and Australia suspended operations of all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in and out of their airports on Tuesday, and Indonesia and China grounded their fleets of the U.S. planemaker’ s latest model after it suffered a second fatal crash in less than five months. The scare has wiped billions of dollars […]

Airline was supposed to return to profitability in 2019 under turnaround plan devised by state investment fund. The Malaysian government is considering whether to shut, sell or refinance national carrier Malaysia Airlines, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told reporters on Tuesday. The government was studying options for the national carrier, and a decision should be made “soon”, Mahathir […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed recent tensions between Pakistan and India over the phone with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. According to Turkish presidential sources, the leaders discussed bilateral ties between Ankara and New Delhi, as well as ways to diplomatically resolve recent conflict between India and its neighbor Pakistan. Erdoğan previously […]

Island chosen to house 23,000 refugees may not be ‘truly habitable’, UN’s special rapporteur on Myanmar warns. Bangladesh risks creating a “new crisis” for Rohingya refugees if it goes ahead next month with plans to relocate 23,000 refugees to an uninhabited island prone to cyclones, a United Nations human rights envoy has warned. Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar who […]

Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, a descendant of Rajput ruler Maharana Pratap, received the certificate from an official of the Guinness Book of World Records-UK at Udaipur on Sunday, it said. A campaign by a member of the erstwhile royal family of Udaipur has received over 3 lakh items of clothing, creating a Guinness world record for […]

Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan, a new book has claimed. Bette Dam’s The Secret Life of Mullah Omar says the leader never hid in Pakistan as believed by the US. Instead, he lived in hiding just three miles from a major US Forward Operating Base in […]

Indonesian woman had been accused of killing estranged brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Malaysia in 2017 The case against Siti Aisyah, one of two women who were charged with the murder of the estranged brother of Kim Jong-un, has been dropped by a court in Malaysia. She was released from custody after the decision […]

India’s Election Commission announced Sunday that the upcoming national election will be held in seven phases in April and May, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party seeks a second term. About 900 million people are eligible to vote in a staggered process that allows the government to deploy tens of thousands of troops […]