Fri 11 October 2024: The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang. Han was recognized for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Nobel committee announced on Thursday. The author was born in 1970 in South Korea, where she […]
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Thu 10 October 2024: Southeast Asian economy on track to reach milestone within four years after 2024 growth forecast raised to 4.9 percent. Malaysia could reach high-income nation status as early as 2028 amid better-than-expected economic growth and a strengthening currency, a top World Bank economist has said. Malaysia is on track to hit the […]
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Wed 09 October 2024: New Delhi: Two months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Bangladesh, her whereabouts are again in the news, with Dhaka asking India and the UAE about her status and claiming to have received no answers. In recent days, Bangladeshi social media has been filled with speculation that Hasina has left India […]
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Wed 09 October 2024: A shocking incident has come to light in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, where a brother and sister were brutally assaulted on a road, allegedly over a religious dispute. The siblings, who were returning home on a bike, were intercepted by a group of men who thrashed the boy. The 41-second video, which […]
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Tue 08 October 2024: Zambia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China on Monday to establish the southern African nation’s first cholera vaccine manufacturing plant. The project’s first phase will cost $37 million, with about three million doses expected to be produced through a joint venture between Zambia’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and Jijia […]
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Mon 07 October 2024: Severe flooding has impacted more than 30,000 families across Thailand, with rescue and relief operations currently in full swing. As of Sunday, local media reported that 20 northern and northeastern provinces, including Chiang Mai, Ayutthaya, and Ubon Ratchathani, remain overwhelmed by the devastation. According to the Department of Disaster Prevention and […]
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Sun 06 October 2024: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said, on Friday, that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been “taken at the highest level”, the state TASS news agency reported. The decision needs to be followed up with various legal procedures in order to make it a reality, President Vladimir Putin’s […]
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Sat 05 October 2024: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that more than 230,000 Afghan migrants have returned to the country from Iran over the past month. According to the report, this is the highest number of returnees recorded from Iran to Afghanistan this year. The report stated that this marks a significant […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: The report noted that after the election results, there were at least 28 attacks targeting Muslims, linking the surge in anti-Muslim violence to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election campaign. New Delhi: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan congressional advisory body, has reported a “deteriorating and concerning trajectory” for […]
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Thu 03 October 2024: Indonesia raised its alert level to Level III as of Thursday due to the eruption of Mount Merapi, the country’s most active volcano, which has already generated 21 significant lava flows. Located on the densely populated island of Java, the volcano’s increased activity presents a heightened risk to surrounding communities, as […]
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