Thu 30 January 2025: More than 70 Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar have arrived at a tourist beach in Indonesia’s Aceh province. Local police chief Nova Suryandaru said a wooden boat carrying 40 men, 32 women and four children ran aground in Pereulak region in East Aceh on Wednesday after its engine broke down. […]
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Wed 29 January 2025: NGO warns interim government must act to avoid return of rights abuses seen under former PM. Bangladesh risks the return of the rights abuses seen under ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unless robust reform is instituted, an international NGO has warned. The interim government in Bangladesh risks losing “hard-won progress” if […]
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Wed 29 January 2025: China on Monday dismissed the lab leak theory on COVID-19 origins proposed by the CIA, calling it baseless and emphasizing the need for scientific investigation, state media reported. “The origin of coronavirus is a scientific issue and should be determined by scientists in a scientific spirit. The lab leak is highly unlikely,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning during […]
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Tue 28 January 2025: China’s newly unveiled AI chatbot, DeepSeek, has raised alarms among Western tech giants, offering a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Supported by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek launched its DeepSeek-R1 large language model (LLM) on Jan. 20. Unlike ChatGPT’s subscription-based and closed-source platform, priced at $200 per […]
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Mon 27 January 2025: South Korean authorities concluded search and recovery operations and an investigation into the Dec. 29 crash of a Jeju Air plane that killed 179 people and found feathers and bloodstains in the two engines of the plane. The Korea JoongAng Daily said Sunday that the families of the victims agreed to […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: Police in Thailand Wednesday claimed they do “not” have any plans to deport 48 Uyghur ethnic community members back to China. The clarification from the Royal Thai Police comes amid growing calls on Thailand to abort any plan to send back some 48 incarcerated Uyghurs to China. Thai police chief Kittharath […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: Community leader and preacher Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday conveyed to Indian lawmakers the Kashmiri religious community’s concerns over a proposed law seeking more government control over Waqf properties. Waqf is endowment of land or property by a Muslim for religious, educational or charitable purposes. Farooq attended the parliamentary committee in […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: The Afghan interim administration Friday rejected arrest requests sought by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor against Taliban leaders, calling it “politically motivated.” It called Karim Khan’s move “devoid of a fair legal basis,” according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry on X. Khan on Thursday filed two requests for arrest […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Indonesia’s free meal program has reached 650,000 school children in 31 provinces, according to President Prabowo Subianto. “From January to April 2025, this program aims to target 3 million children. By April to August 2025, it will reach 6 million children. In September, we hope to cover 15 million children, and […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Experts say May and June are hatching periods, the most appropriate time to catch larvae and juveniles. Taiwan has announced it will cull up to 120,000 green iguanas with local governments asking the public to help identify iguana nests, recommending fishing spears as the most humane means of killing the animals. […]
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