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Myanmar navy finds answer to ‘ghost ship’ mystery

Myanmar navy finds answer to ‘ghost ship’ mystery

-- 2018-09-01 16:45:32

Myanmar officials investigating a ‘ghost ship’ found mysteriously drifting near the Yangon region this week have found the answer to its fate. The large, empty and rusty container vessel,...

N Korea prepares for toned-down military parade, say analysts

N Korea prepares for toned-down military parade, say analysts

-- 2018-09-01 15:14:18

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is poised to stage another military parade amid new worries that diplomatic efforts on denuclearisation are stalling, though analysts say it is unclear whether it w...

BIMSTEC summit 'overlooks' Rohingya crisis

BIMSTEC summit 'overlooks' Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-08-31 21:24:32

The Rohingya crisis, which has received massive international attention, was not discussed in the just concluded fourth BIMSTEC summit in Nepal. The summit of BIMSTEC member-states, which ended on Fr...

Japan boosts defence budget to counter N Korean threat

Japan boosts defence budget to counter N Korean threat

-- 2018-08-31 18:40:33

Japan's Defence Ministry is seeking to more than double spending on missile defence, including purchases of costly American arsenals, to defend against North Korean threats. The record-high 5.3 trill...

BIMSTEC summit ends with Kathmandu declaration

BIMSTEC summit ends with Kathmandu declaration

-- 2018-08-31 18:15:44

The 4th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit successfully concluded in Kathmandu on Friday. Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli handed over...

NZ PM has two ministers step aside

NZ PM has two ministers step aside

-- 2018-08-31 12:45:04

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had to strip one minister of her portfolio and had another step aside in less than a week, capping off a month of challenges for the popular premier since...

Myanmar army fakes photos in book on Rohingya crisis

Myanmar army fakes photos in book on Rohingya crisis

Reuters 2018-08-31 10:06:47

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics...

Myanmar dam breach floods 85 villages

Myanmar dam breach floods 85 villages

-- 2018-08-30 11:11:00

As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thu...

Suu Kyi 'should have resigned' on Rohingya crisis

Suu Kyi 'should have resigned' on Rohingya crisis

BBC 2018-08-30 10:24:01

The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military's violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. Zeid Ra'ad...

West mulls bigger footprint in Pacific to counter China

West mulls bigger footprint in Pacific to counter China

-- 2018-08-29 17:30:29

The United States, Australia, France and Britain will open new embassies in the Pacific, boost staffing levels, and engage with leaders of island nations more often in a bid to counter China’s r...

Indian political rivals’ clashes kill two

Indian political rivals’ clashes kill two

-- 2018-08-29 16:27:37

Police in eastern India say supporters of rival political parties have exchanged gunfire and hurled crude bombs at each other, killing at least two people and injuring 13. Police officer Abhitjit Ban...

Eight die in car bomb attack on Iraq security checkpoint

Eight die in car bomb attack on Iraq security checkpoint

Reuters 2018-08-29 13:57:23

At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in the Qaim district of Iraq’s Anbar province, a local official told Reuters on Wednesday....

UN Rohingya report deserves serious consideration, says Guterres

UN Rohingya report deserves serious consideration, says Guterres

-- 2018-08-29 13:24:51

A report by UN investigators saying Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent,” and that the country’s commander-in-...

India arrests poet Varavara Rao

India arrests poet Varavara Rao

-- 2018-08-29 12:24:59

Indian police arrested Hyderabad-based revolutionary writer Varavara Rao on Tuesday in a case relating to alleged conspiracy to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.   He was arrested...

Myanmar rejects UN accusation of ‘Rohingya genocide’

Myanmar rejects UN accusation of ‘Rohingya genocide’

-- 2018-08-29 11:28:11

Myanmar has rejected a UN report which called for top Burmese military figures to be investigated for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Government spokesman Zaw Htay said the country did...

Bomb at Philippines street festival kills two

Bomb at Philippines street festival kills two

-- 2018-08-29 11:27:33

A homemade bomb hidden under a motorcycle killed two people, including a child, and wounded 37 at a local street festival in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, security officials said, the latest un...

7.0 quake strikes New Caledonia of South Pacific

7.0 quake strikes New Caledonia of South Pacific

-- 2018-08-29 10:36:06

A powerful undersea earthquake measuring magnitude 7.0 struck near New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The centre said there was no Pacific-wide...

Russia postpones Afghanistan peace conference

Russia postpones Afghanistan peace conference

-- 2018-08-28 17:35:20

Russia has postponed a multilateral Afghanistan peace conference that was scheduled to take place in Moscow next month, reports aljazeera.com.  The meeting was scheduled to take place on Septemb...

Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes Indonesia again

Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes Indonesia again

-- 2018-08-28 15:17:32

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck off eastern Indonesian province on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake, which hit at a...

Exerting pressure unhelpful in resolving Rohingya issue: China

Exerting pressure unhelpful in resolving Rohingya issue: China

-- 2018-08-28 15:05:41

China said on Tuesday that exerting pressure was not helpful in resolving the issue of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after UN investigators said Myanmar’s military had carried out mass killings of...

Five die in China aluminium plant explosion

Five die in China aluminium plant explosion

-- 2018-08-28 14:05:34

Five people were killed by an explosion at an aluminium plant in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on Tuesday morning, state-run China News reported, citing local authorities. The blast occurred...

Cambodia releases 14 government critics

Cambodia releases 14 government critics

-- 2018-08-28 11:16:55

Cambodia released 14 government critics on Tuesday, in a move by Prime Minister Hun Sen that some observers say is aimed at appeasing foreign criticism of a flawed general election last month. The 14...

Ousted Turnbull 'to quit parliament'

Ousted Turnbull 'to quit parliament'

-- 2018-08-28 10:40:38

Malcolm Turnbull has said he will quit Australia's parliament on Friday following his ouster as prime minister by party rivals, local media report. Mr Turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison last wee...

Iran goes to UN court over US sanctions

Iran goes to UN court over US sanctions

-- 2018-08-27 17:55:02

Iran has filed a case with the International Court of Justice, the UN’s top court, against renewed sanctions imposed by the Trump administration against Tehran. The lawsuit filed with the ICJ s...

Facebook removes top Myanmar military officials, others

Facebook removes top Myanmar military officials, others

-- 2018-08-27 16:12:18

Facebook is removing certain Myanmar military officials from the social media website and an Instagram account to prevent the spread of “hate and misinformation” after reviewing the conten...

Myanmar army must face genocide charges: UN

Myanmar army must face genocide charges: UN

BBC 2018-08-27 14:06:33

A UN report has said top military figures in Myanmar must be investigated for genocide in Rakhine state and crimes against humanity in other areas. The report, based on hundreds of interviews, is the...

'Pompeo's trip cancellation impacts inter-Korean liaison office plans'

'Pompeo's trip cancellation impacts inter-Korean liaison office plans'

-- 2018-08-27 12:24:47

South Korea said on Monday the abrupt cancellation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip to North Korea is having an “effect” on a controversial inter-Korean liaison...

Verdict against Reuters journos in secrets case gets postponed

Verdict against Reuters journos in secrets case gets postponed

Reuters 2018-08-27 10:27:40

The verdict in Myanmar’s prosecution of two Reuters reporters accused of breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act was postponed on Monday until Sept. 3 because the judge overseeing the...

Iranian lawmakers sack finance minister

Iranian lawmakers sack finance minister

-- 2018-08-26 16:59:03

The Iranian parliament has removed economic affairs and finance minister Masoud Karbasian amid a sharp fall in local currency and a deterioration in the economic situation. The house held a vote on S...

Pakistan bans first class air travel by President, PM

Pakistan bans first class air travel by President, PM

-- 2018-08-26 16:37:58

Pakistan imposed a ban on first-class air travel by the president, head of the government, chief justice, Senate chairman and NA speaker of the country. The federal cabinet of the country took the de...