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Myanmar judge extends sentences for jailed poets

Myanmar judge extends sentences for jailed poets

Reuters 2019-11-19 11:26:51

A Myanmar judge on Monday extended the sentences of a troupe of satirical performers jailed for mocking the military, in a case that has raised new concern about freedom of expression. Seven members...

Kuwait PM declines reappointment, emir removes senior ministers

Kuwait PM declines reappointment, emir removes senior ministers

Reuters 2019-11-18 19:37:41

Kuwait’s caretaker prime minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak declined to be reappointed as premier in the OPEC oil producer on Monday, rebuffing the offer from the ruling emir after submitting the...

Cambodia’s princess dies at age 76

Cambodia’s princess dies at age 76

-- 2019-11-18 17:55:37

Cambodia's Princess Norodom Bopha Devi, a former minister of culture who helped revive traditional Apsara dance after the brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime nearly wiped it out, has died at age 76, the r...

North Korea not interested in meaningless talks with United States

North Korea not interested in meaningless talks with United States

Reuters 2019-11-18 17:15:18

North Korea's government has said it is not interested in meaningless talks with the United States just so President Donald Trump had something to boast about, urging an end to what it called a policy...

Kuwait to adopt asphalt tech to pave road

Kuwait to adopt asphalt tech to pave road

-- 2019-11-18 13:13:36

Kuwait has developed a new rubber asphalt technology to create a new form of road paving material, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) has said. Suad Al-Bahar, representative of the res...

Hong Kong court rules ban on face masks unconstitutional   

Hong Kong court rules ban on face masks unconstitutional  

Reuters 2019-11-18 12:57:37

Hong Kong’s High Court ruled on Monday that a British colonial-era emergency law revived by the government to ban protesters wearing face masks was unconstitutional. It said the law was &ldqu...

Xi urges BRICS countries to champion multilateralism

Xi urges BRICS countries to champion multilateralism

-- 2019-11-17 18:29:51

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on the BRICS countries to undertake their due obligations in championing and practicing multilateralism. Xi made the appeal in a speech entitled "Toget...

Ex-defence chief Rajapaksa wins Sri Lanka presidency

Ex-defence chief Rajapaksa wins Sri Lanka presidency

-- 2019-11-17 18:19:59

Sri Lanka's former wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa has won a presidential election that has split the country along ethnic lines. Official results showed Mr Rajapaksa took 52.25 per cent of...

Rajapaksa takes lead in Sri Lanka's presidential election

Rajapaksa takes lead in Sri Lanka's presidential election

Reuters 2019-11-17 12:04:20

Sri Lanka’s former wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa established a lead over his main rival in a presidential election months after deadly militant attacks in the island, early results sh...

Bushfire conditions worsen in east, west Australia

Bushfire conditions worsen in east, west Australia

-- 2019-11-17 11:42:37

Rising temperatures, lightning strikes and gusty winds further raised fire danger on both coasts of Australia on Sunday as the country already battles more than 120 bushfires and firefighters work day...

China owns 2,750 natural reserves

China owns 2,750 natural reserves

Xinhua 2019-11-16 16:59:56

China owned 2,750 natural reserves across the country at the end of September 2019, data from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) showed.China's natural reserves cover a total ar...

Hundreds of pro-China protesters rally amid Hong Kong chaos

Hundreds of pro-China protesters rally amid Hong Kong chaos

-- 2019-11-16 11:51:29

Hundreds of pro-China protesters rallied in Hong Kong on Saturday to denounce increasingly violent anti-government unrest in the Chinese-ruled city and support the police who have become a prime targe...

Myanmar rejects ICC probe into Rohingya genocide

Myanmar rejects ICC probe into Rohingya genocide

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-16 11:39:51

Striking back at an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into its alleged crimes against Rohingyas, Myanmar has said it does not accord with the international law, according to global medi...

Hong Kong's most urgent task is to end violence: Xi Jinping

Hong Kong's most urgent task is to end violence: Xi Jinping

Xinhua 2019-11-15 20:20:47

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said the most urgent task for Hong Kong at present is to bring violence and chaos to an end and restore order. Xi came up with the statement he was attending the 11th...

Israel says holding fire in Gaza as long as militants do

Israel says holding fire in Gaza as long as militants do

Reuters 2019-11-15 11:56:23

Israel will follow suit if Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip stop cross-border attacks, an Israeli official said on Thursday, denying that Israel had changed open-fire policy as demanded by the I...

Chinese auto makers to explore $5.0b investment in India

Chinese auto makers to explore $5.0b investment in India

Xinhua 2019-11-14 18:13:17

Chinese auto manufacturers are expected to pump about $5.0 billion in the Indian market over the next 3-5 years at a time when Indian manufacturers are holding back their investments, said a media rep...

China-Japan ties shouldn’t be subject to US’ whims

China-Japan ties shouldn’t be subject to US’ whims

Global Times 2019-11-14 17:22:31

Relations between China and Japan have seen an uptick since the China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Summit in Tokyo in 2018. The two countries agreed in principle to Chinese President Xi Jinping's sta...

Australian bushfire death toll rises to four

Australian bushfire death toll rises to four

Xinhua 2019-11-14 16:35:06

A man's body has been found in burnt-out bushland in the Australian state of New South Wales, authorities said on Thursday, taking the death toll of an ongoing bushfire emergency to four. Police beli...

Indian court delays ruling on ban on women entering Hindu temple

Indian court delays ruling on ban on women entering Hindu temple

-- 2019-11-14 12:59:18

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday referred a decision to lift a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age entering a Hindu temple to a larger bench of judges, delaying a final verdict in th...

Cambodia govt to free more than 70 opposition activists

Cambodia govt to free more than 70 opposition activists

Reuters 2019-11-14 11:42:59

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the release on bail of more than 70 opposition activists arrested in recent weeks and accused of plotting to overthrow the government, he said on Thursday....

Kabul's air pollution may be deadlier than war

Kabul's air pollution may be deadlier than war

-- 2019-11-13 17:00:46

Yousuf fled with his family from his home in eastern Afghanistan eight years ago to escape the war, but he couldn’t escape tragedy. In the capital, Kabul, five of his children died, not from vio...

Car bomb blast near Afghan interior ministry kills seven

Car bomb blast near Afghan interior ministry kills seven

-- 2019-11-13 11:50:16

Seven people were killed and seven injured on Wednesday after a car bomb explosion near the interior ministry in the Afghan capital of Kabul, a government spokesman said. There was no immediate claim...

Chinese scientists develop flexible sodium-ion microcapacitors

Chinese scientists develop flexible sodium-ion microcapacitors

Xinhua 2019-11-12 18:16:45

Chinese scientists have constructed a prototype of planar sodium-ion microcapacitors (NIMCs) with high power density, superior thermal stability and excellent mechanical flexibility. The prototype wa...

Netizens urge Japan to handle 41 cracks in grounds of Fukushima nuclear plant

Netizens urge Japan to handle 41 cracks in grounds of Fukushima nuclear plant

Global Times 2019-11-12 17:26:30

Chinese and Korean netizens are calling on Japan to deal with dozens of cracks discovered in facilities containing radiation at the Fukushima nuclear plant as soon as possible. According to a report...

Fear grips Kashmiri village where Indian migrant workers killed

Fear grips Kashmiri village where Indian migrant workers killed

-- 2019-11-12 16:29:14

Locals in the Kashmiri village where five Indian migrant labourers were killed by gunmen last week say they are living in fear of militant groups as well as the subsequent crackdown by security forces...

54 injured after man sprays corrosive liquid in China kindergarten

54 injured after man sprays corrosive liquid in China kindergarten

-- 2019-11-12 12:36:43

Fifty-one children and three teachers were injured after a man sprayed a corrosive chemical in a kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Tuesday. The incident happen...

Attack in Damascus kills two, wounds six

Attack in Damascus kills two, wounds six

-- 2019-11-12 11:20:46

At least two people were killed and six wounded in an attack in the early hours of Tuesday that targeted a building in Damascus, the Syrian capital, state television said. The building, which state m...

Iran adds to breaches of nuclear deal with enrichment push: IAEA report

Iran adds to breaches of nuclear deal with enrichment push: IAEA report

-- 2019-11-12 10:35:44

Iran is enriching uranium at its underground Fordow site and rapidly accelerating enrichment more broadly, a report by the UN atomic watchdog showed on Monday, outlining Tehran’s latest breaches...

Open market boon to spill over from China's import expo

Open market boon to spill over from China's import expo

Xinhua 2019-11-11 18:16:11

As the second China International Import Expo (CIIE) concluded Sunday, more overseas companies will share the benefits of China's large market that is opening wider to the world.Australian firm Freedo...

Chinese president arrives in Greece for state visit

Chinese president arrives in Greece for state visit

-- 2019-11-11 15:20:32

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Greece Sunday for a three-day state visit to consolidate traditional friendship and strengthen cooperation between the two countries. It is the first visit by...