Category: Asia

SRI LANKA’S MARXIST-LEANING PRESIDENT APPOINTS CABINET AMID ECONOMIC CRISIS

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Mon 18 November 2024: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday picked a 21-member Cabinet after winning a two-thirds majority in the parliamentary elections last week. Dissanayake will keep ministerial portfolios of finance, defense, and digital, while educationist Harini Amarasuriya again took oath as the prime minister of the island nation. Dissanayake won presidential elections in September and […]

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US AND PHILIPPINES SIGN INTELLIGENCE-SHARING AGREEMENT TO COUNTER CHINA

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Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro signed a General Security of Military Information Agreement between the two countries on Monday,  in Manila, November 18, 2024. Mon 18 November 2024: The Philippines and the United States have signed a military intelligence-sharing deal, in a further deepening of security ties between the two defence treaty allies as they […]

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KFC INDONESIA CLOSES MORE STORES AS ANTI-ISRAEL BOYCOTT CAUSES SURGE IN LOSS

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Mon 18 November 2024: KFC Indonesia has accelerated store closures and lay-offs to stem mounting losses as a long-running campaign to boycott products over their perceived links to Israel shows no sign of easing. Fast Food Indonesia, which operates the American chain in the Southeast Asian nation, said uneven recovery from the pandemic and consumer anger at Israel’s war […]

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LEAD POISONING AFFECTS OVER 35 MILLION BANGLADESHI CHILDREN

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Sun 17 November 2024: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for a multi-sectoral action plan among all relevant Bangladesh ministries to respond to lead poisoning and strengthen laboratory capacity in the health and environment sectors to test heavy metals. Globally, Bangladesh ranks fourth in the number of children affected by lead pollution, and […]

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THE US IS NOW AT RISK OF LOSING TO CHINA IN THE RACE TO SEND PEOPLE BACK TO THE MOON’S SURFACE

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Sun 17 November 2024: Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the US and China are preparing to send humans back there this decade. However, the US lunar programme is delayed, in part because the spacesuits […]

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TRUMP TEAM COMPILES A LIST OF POSSIBLE COURT MARTIAL CANDIDATES FOR “DISRESPECTFUL” AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL

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Sun 17 November 2024: The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly compiling a list of former and current senior US military officers directly involved in the “disrespectful” withdrawal from Afghanistan to determine whether they could face court martial. Trump’s team is exploring the possibility of forming a commission to investigate the withdrawal from Afghanistan […]

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AFGHANI STRENGTHENS CONSIDERABLY AGAINST IRAN’S TOMAN IN PAST YEAR

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Sat 16 November 2024: Afghanistan’s currency, the afghani (AFN), has strengthened considerably against Iran’s toman in the past year, Iranian media reported. According to Iranian-based financial website gheymat360.com, the afghani has strengthened by 40%, recording the strongest growth rate among foreign currencies on the Iranian forex market. Currently one afghani is sold for 992 tomans […]

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HORRIFIC HOSPITAL FIRE IN NORTH INDIA: 10 NEWBORNS KILLED, OVER A DOZEN INJURED

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Sat 16 November 2024: The babies died from burns and suffocation after a blaze swept through a neonatal intensive care unit in Jhansi. A fire ripped through the neonatal unit of a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborns and injuring 17, the authorities said. Emergency responders rescued 38 newborns from the ward, which housed […]

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INDIA’S TOP COURT CALLS DEMOLITION OF PRIVATE PROPERTIES ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’

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Thu 14 November 2024: India’s top court on Wednesday issued guidelines regarding “bulldozer actions,” calling the demolition of private properties “unconstitutional.” “If a citizen’s house is demolished merely because he is an accused or even for that matter a convict, that too without following the due process as prescribed by law, in our considered view, […]

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