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China building 1,000-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus

China building 1,000-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus

Reuters 2020-01-24 14:05:07

The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus, mobilising machinery to get it ready by early next week, state media said. The virus has...

WHO declares coronavirus 'an emergency in China' as death toll hits 25

WHO declares coronavirus 'an emergency in China' as death toll hits 25

Reuters 2020-01-24 10:53:49

A new coronavirus has killed 25 people in China and infected more than 800, the government said on Friday, as the World Health Organization declared it an emergency but stopped short of declaring the...

World court orders measures to prevent Rohingya genocide

World court orders measures to prevent Rohingya genocide

-- 2020-01-23 16:19:12

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered measures to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, reports BBC. The decision comes despite de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi defendin...

Firefighting plane crashes in Australia, killing three

Firefighting plane crashes in Australia, killing three

AP 2020-01-23 12:46:15

Three Americans died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said....

China locks down epicentre of virus outbreak as death toll rises to 17

China locks down epicentre of virus outbreak as death toll rises to 17

Reuters 2020-01-23 11:14:51

China is putting on lockdown a city of 11 million people considered the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people, as health authorities around the wo...

Genocide case against Myanmar: ICJ order today on 'interim steps'

Genocide case against Myanmar: ICJ order today on 'interim steps'

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-01-23 10:36:19

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver on Thursday its order on request for indication of provisional measures, made by Gambia in the case concerning genocide in Myanmar. A public sitt...

China virus deaths hit 17, heightening global alarm

China virus deaths hit 17, heightening global alarm

Reuters 2020-01-22 22:30:09

Deaths from China’s new virus rose to 17 on Wednesday with more than 540 cases confirmed, increasing fears of contagion from an infection suspected to originate from illegally-traded wildlife....

North Korea bans foreign tourists over Coronavirus

North Korea bans foreign tourists over Coronavirus

-- 2020-01-22 14:23:59

North Korea has banned foreign tourists to guard against the spread of the new Coronavirus from China, tour operators in China said. Foreign travel to North Korea has been temporarily suspended as of...

Indian SC says no stay on citizenship law for now

Indian SC says no stay on citizenship law for now

-- 2020-01-22 13:30:23

The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that it will not grant any stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) without hearing the Centre and said it may refer pleas challenging the validi...

Taiwan calls on China to share ‘correct’ virus information

Taiwan calls on China to share ‘correct’ virus information

-- 2020-01-22 11:54:23

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on China on Wednesday to share “correct” information about a new coronavirus and for the World Health Organisation (WHO) not to exclude Taiwan from col...

China virus death toll rises to nine

China virus death toll rises to nine

Reuters 2020-01-22 10:41:21

The death toll from a new flu-like coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases, Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak by d...

Fire kills five in southern Vietnam

Fire kills five in southern Vietnam

Xinhua 2020-01-21 13:26:53

A fire in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City killed five early Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency reported. The fire broke out in a house located in a small alley of District 9 in Ho Chi Minh City at arou...

China confirms person-to-person spread of coronavirus

China confirms person-to-person spread of coronavirus

Reuters 2020-01-21 12:54:08

The Chinese official investigating a pneumonia outbreak stemming from a new coronavirus said the disease can spread from person to person but can be halted with increased vigilance, as authorities on...

Myanmar panel says security forces likely committed war crimes

Myanmar panel says security forces likely committed war crimes

-- 2020-01-21 11:36:05

An independent commission established by Myanmar's government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 70...

India's ruling party BJP gets new chief

India's ruling party BJP gets new chief

Reuters 2020-01-20 18:06:28

India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has elected Jagat Prakash Nadda as its central president replacing current Home Minister Amit Shah. Nadda was elected unopposed on Monday...

Nine dead as crowded footbridge breaks over Indonesian river

Nine dead as crowded footbridge breaks over Indonesian river

-- 2020-01-20 13:08:38

A footbridge on Indonesia's Sumatra island broke while it was packed with people and several fell into the overflowing river below and drowned, officials said Monday. Nine bodies have been pulled fro...

Will send 10m Bangladeshi Muslims back: BJP leader

Will send 10m Bangladeshi Muslims back: BJP leader

-- 2020-01-20 12:04:51

BJP's West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh has said that the government is committed to implementing the proposed nationwide National Register of India and will send back 10 million (1 crore) Bangladesh...

China to ban bags and other single-use plastic

China to ban bags and other single-use plastic

-- 2020-01-20 11:29:40

China, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use plastics across the country. Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end of 2020 a...

Coronavirus spreads to Beijing as China confirms 139 new cases

Coronavirus spreads to Beijing as China confirms 139 new cases

-- 2020-01-20 10:46:53

Chinese authorities have reported 139 new cases of a mysterious virus in two days, marking the first time that the infection has been confirmed in the country outside of Wuhan city. The new cases wer...

Jinping discuses Rohingya repatriation issue with Myanmar

Jinping discuses Rohingya repatriation issue with Myanmar

-- 2020-01-19 20:35:43

China has reaffirmed its willingness to provide further support, within its capacity, to Myanmar in the Rohingya repatriation process and resettlement of the displaced people from Rakhine State. This...

Facebook says sorry after mistranslation of Xi Jinping's name

Facebook says sorry after mistranslation of Xi Jinping's name

BBC 2020-01-19 16:50:36

Facebook has apologised for translating Chinese President Xi Jinping's name from Burmese to English into an obscenity on its platform. The translation gaffe came to light on the second day of Xi's st...

Eight killed, dozens injured in Indonesia's bus crash

Eight killed, dozens injured in Indonesia's bus crash

Xinhua 2020-01-19 14:43:52

Eight people were killed and 30 others wounded when a passenger bus overturned in Indonesia's West Java province on Saturday, media reported on Sunday. The driver was believed to have failed controll...

Sixty die in Houthi attack on military camp in Yemen

Sixty die in Houthi attack on military camp in Yemen

-- 2020-01-19 11:39:56

Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a military training camp in the Yemeni city of Marib on Saturday, killing 60 military personnel and wounding dozens others, Saudi state television said on Saturday evenin...

India restores internet, 2G mobile services in parts of Kashmir

India restores internet, 2G mobile services in parts of Kashmir

India Today 2020-01-18 18:31:02

India has restored broadband internet and 2G mobile internet services in some areas of its Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Principal Secretary of the state government Rohit Kansal on Saturday. The 2G mo...

Myanmar, China ink dozens of infrastructure project deals

Myanmar, China ink dozens of infrastructure project deals

Reuters 2020-01-18 18:19:04

China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbour increasingly isolated by the...

Chinese, Vietnamese leaders call for closer partnership

Chinese, Vietnamese leaders call for closer partnership

Xinhua 2020-01-18 17:04:31

China and Vietnam are socialist neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, and are a community of a shared future with strategic significance, said Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Pa...

Chinese president begins 'historic' Myanmar visit

Chinese president begins 'historic' Myanmar visit

XINHUA 2020-01-17 18:06:37

Chinese President Xi Jinping reached Nay Pyi Taw on Friday for a state visit to Myanmar. It is Xi's first overseas trip this year, and the first visit to the Asian neighbour by a Chinese president af...

Khamenei defends Iranian military over plane crash

Khamenei defends Iranian military over plane crash

-- 2020-01-17 17:29:39

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defended the country's military after it admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. He said the Revolutionary Guard - the elite unit respons...

Suicides in Japan hit record low in 2019

Suicides in Japan hit record low in 2019

-- 2020-01-17 14:09:42

Suicides in Japan in 2019 fell to their lowest number in more than 40 years, police said on Friday, marking the 10th straight year of declines. Though suicide has a long history in Japan as a way of...

Police arrest HK students in bomb-making lab

Police arrest HK students in bomb-making lab

-- 2020-01-16 20:00:56

Hong Kong police raid powerful pipe bomb lab in a residential building on Tuesday. Police destroyed the laboratory where rioters made explosives. When a homemade bomb was detonated at the scene, the...