-- 2019-09-12 17:09:35
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Wednesday announced it will organise Bangkok Car Free Day 2019 to reduce traffic congestion, pollution and save energy on Sept 22. Deputy Bangkok Gove...
-- 2019-09-12 00:11:56
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's promise on Tuesday that if re-elected he would annex much of the occupied West Bank would not be helpful in the Middle East peace process, a UN spokesman sa...
Global Times 2019-09-11 18:03:44
China on Wednesday announced a plan for certain US imports and companies to file for exemptions from Chinese tariffs, in a goodwill gesture that will help ease the impact of the trade war on US compan...
Xinhua 2019-09-11 16:40:12
Hundreds of schools were closed in Malaysia's Sarawak state after air quality dropped due to the ongoing haze, the state Education Department has said. The closures include 347 primary and 62 seconda...
-- 2019-09-11 16:30:03
Japan's nuclear regulator plans to reinvestigate the Fukushima disaster, in which three reactors at an atomic power plant run by Tokyo Electric Power melted down after an earthquake and tsunami eight...
-- 2019-09-11 16:26:32
Security forces in Indian Kashmir shot dead on Wednesday a suspected member of a Pakistan-based militant group who was accused of attacking the family of a fruit trader, the state police chief said, r...
Reuters 2019-09-11 11:18:38
Three Australian citizens have been detained in Iran, the Australian government said on Wednesday, adding that it was helping the families of the three but gave no further details. The brief statemen...
Reuters 2019-09-11 10:38:36
Arab foreign ministers condemned a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex parts of the occupied West Bank as “aggression” undermining any chances of a peace settlement...
-- 2019-09-10 20:20:22
At least 31 people died and another 100 were wounded on Tuesday during the Shi’ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Kerbala, a Health Ministry spokesman said, offering no...
-- 2019-09-10 20:09:07
At least 16 people died and another 75 were wounded on Tuesday during the Shi’ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Kerbala, a Health Ministry spokesman said, offering no d...
-- 2019-09-10 20:02:45
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in eastern Australia as firefighters battle more than 130 blazes across two states. Officials say the intense blazes mark the worst start to...
-- 2019-09-10 19:18:58
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will draft the son of former premier Junichiro Koizumi into his cabinet and keep allies in key posts in a reshuffle on Wednesday, media reported, as Abe readies a ta...
-- 2019-09-10 18:52:27
A former MLA from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Baldev Kumar, on Tuesday sought political asylum from New Delhi, reports NDTV. He has been staying with hi...
-- 2019-09-10 18:46:59
North Korea is willing to restart denuclearisation talks with the United States later this month, the country's vice foreign minister has said. Choe Son-hui said they were willing to resume "comprehe...
-- 2019-09-10 18:01:09
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam renews an appeal to pro-democracy protesters to halt violence and engage in dialogue, as the city's richest man urged the government to provide a way out for the mostly you...
-- 2019-09-10 17:38:37
Actor Urmila Matondkar, who joined the Congress barely five months ago ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, quit today with a barbed statement that left the party red-faced ahead of the coming assembly e...
-- 2019-09-10 17:30:51
Pakistan on Tuesday asked the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to ensure that India ends the restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir and restores fundamental rights and liberties in the region, report agen...
-- 2019-09-10 17:25:21
NEW DELHI, Sept 10: India today rejected the reference made to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint statement issued after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent visit to Islamabad. “We reje...
-- 2019-09-10 16:45:19
The Israeli-based NSO Group, whose software is alleged to have been used in a number of government surveillance scandals, said on Tuesday it would abide by UN guidelines to prevent rights abuses, repo...
-- 2019-09-10 16:06:16
Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, the environment minis...
-- 2019-09-10 15:36:31
Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. Four locations where secure faci...
-- 2019-09-10 14:22:40
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10: Malaysia sent half a million face masks to the eastern state of Sarawak and closed more than 400 schools there on Tuesday as a haze spread from forest fires in neighboring Indon...
-- 2019-09-10 13:01:15
Geneva: India and Pakistan are set to battle it out over Kashmir during the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session on Tuesday, reports www.firstpost.com. Both the countries have deploye...
-- 2019-09-10 12:25:30
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal's Prime Minister K.P.Sharma Oli will jointly inaugurate Motihari-Amlekhgunj cross border petroleum products pipeline through video conference Tuesday....
-- 2019-09-10 12:18:48
Hundreds of Australians have fled their homes in the eastern states as 140 fires ravaged parts of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW), officials said on Tuesday. Strong winds have fanned bushfires i...
-- 2019-09-10 10:55:37
North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its deali...
Xinhua 2019-09-09 20:38:03
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over the 10th meeting of the central committee for deepening overall reform Monday. Xi, also Chi...
Global Times 2019-09-09 20:34:38
What on earth is the US competing for with China? Why does the US concern itself with China's development? We may find answers through the development of internet technology. The US and China a...
Reuters 2019-09-09 16:37:14
Japan needs to improve medical care at immigration detention centres, the head of the country’s recently created Immigration Services Agency said, following widespread criticism of the care avai...
-- 2019-09-09 11:46:09
One of the strongest typhoons to hit the Japanese capital in recent years hit just east of Tokyo on Monday, killing one woman, with record-breaking winds and stinging rain that threatened to burst riv...
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