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Int’l community should help resolve Rohingya issue: China

Int’l community should help resolve Rohingya issue: China

-- 2017-12-23 02:05:23

China called upon the international community to play a constructive role in helping Bangladesh and Myanmar resolve the Rohingya issue instead of 'complicating' the matter. "We believe that the inter...

Indonesia holds cabinet meeting over volcano threat

Indonesia holds cabinet meeting over volcano threat

-- 2017-12-22 12:41:13

Indonesian President Joko Widodo will on Friday hold his cabinet meeting on the holiday island of Bali in a bid to reassure visitors that there is nothing to worry about from the rumbling Mount Agung...

29 die in South Korea sports centre fire

29 die in South Korea sports centre fire

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

A fire at a sports centre in South Korea has killed 29 people and left many others injured. The fire, which started in the basement of an eight-storey building, occurred in the southern city of Jeche...

Melbourne car attack leaves 9 foreigners injured: Turnbull

Melbourne car attack leaves 9 foreigners injured: Turnbull

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

Nearly half the 19 people wounded as a driver with no known extremist links plowed into pedestrians in the southern city of Melbourne were foreign nationals, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull...

Japan births fall record low

Japan births fall record low

-- 2017-12-22 09:05:13

The number of births in Japan this year has fallen to its lowest since records began more than a century ago with about 941,000 new babies, the health ministry said on Friday, proof if any were needed...

Pakistan closes 27 NGOs

Pakistan closes 27 NGOs

-- 2017-12-22 06:41:14

Pakistan has ordered 27 international aid groups to conclude operations for doing work 'beyond mandate'. Country's Interior Affairs Minister Talal Chaudhury said the reason for shutting down the NGOs...

Japan boosts defence budget to record levels

Japan boosts defence budget to record levels

-- 2017-12-22 05:26:04

Japan’s government has approved a record defence budget, with money earmarked for costly missile defence systems. The missile defence systems, controversially, could be used in pre-emptive stri...

Australia police make largest drug haul, arrest eight

Australia police make largest drug haul, arrest eight

-- 2017-12-22 04:55:09

Australian police have arrested eight men over the nation's largest ever seizure of the drug methamphetamine. The haul, estimated to have a street value of A$1bn (£600m; $800m), was uncovered w...

Another North Korean soldier defects

Another North Korean soldier defects

Reuters 2017-12-21 12:00:00

South Korean guards fired up to 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a soldier who had defected on Thursday, Yonhap news agency said, after officials in the South confirmed the latest...

N Korea rejects 'absurd' cyber attack accusation

N Korea rejects 'absurd' cyber attack accusation

Reuters 2017-12-21 12:00:00

A spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Thursday Pyongyang is not linked to any cyber attacks, the North’s first response since the United States publicly blamed it for a ma...

Mass grave probe: Myanmar military appoints general

Mass grave probe: Myanmar military appoints general

-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00

Myanmar army said that it had appointed a senior officer to investigate whether any members of the security forces were involved in the killing of 10 people whose bodies were uncovered in a mass grave...

Philippine ferry capsizes with 251 aboard

Philippine ferry capsizes with 251 aboard

-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00

A Philippine ferry carrying 251 people capsized on Thursday off an island south of Manila, the capital, a coast guard spokesman said, amid a storm bringing heavy downpours. Three people were killed i...

India allocates $25m for developing Rakhine

India allocates $25m for developing Rakhine

-- 2017-12-21 10:45:36

India will provide Myanmar with $25 million for development projects including prefabricated houses in troubled Rakhine state to enable the return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled the area. India&rs...

China jails 50 for telecoms fraud

China jails 50 for telecoms fraud

-- 2017-12-21 10:12:33

A court in Beijing on Thursday handed down sentences of up to 15 years in jail to 50 people deported from Kenya for telecoms fraud, including 22 from self-ruled Taiwan, a case that infuriated Taiwan&r...

4 dead as Philippine ferry capsizes with 251 on board

4 dead as Philippine ferry capsizes with 251 on board

-- 2017-12-21 04:24:10

Four people were killed when a Philippine ferry with 251 people on board capsized during bad weather on Thursday off an island near the capital, Manila, said a coastguard spokesman. Coastguard boats...

Earthquake hits near Iran’s capital

Earthquake hits near Iran’s capital

Reuters 2017-12-21 03:30:33

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck a town near the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday night, state media reported, but there were no initial reports of casualties or significant damage. Last mont...

Kuwait orders probe into Airbus helicopter deal

Kuwait orders probe into Airbus helicopter deal

Reuters 2017-12-21 03:21:46

Kuwait said on Wednesday it had ordered an investigation into a deal with aircraft maker Airbus (AIR.PA) to supply 30 Caracal military helicopters, worth one billion euros ($1.19 billion), for its air...

Pakistan bus crash claims 11 lives

Pakistan bus crash claims 11 lives

-- 2017-12-21 02:14:44

At least 11 people have been killed and 20 others wounded as a speeding passenger bus collided with a parked long trailer on a highway in central Pakistan where heavy fog limited visibility, police sa...

Driver ploughs into Melbourne crowd, injuring 16

Driver ploughs into Melbourne crowd, injuring 16

-- 2017-12-21 01:18:26

Australian police have arrested a driver after a car drove into a crowd in Melbourne. The car "collided with a number of pedestrians" on Flinders Street, a busy junction in the centre of the city, Vi...

S Korea may delay joint drills only if 'North behaves'

S Korea may delay joint drills only if 'North behaves'

-- 2017-12-20 12:48:38

Any delay in joint military drills with the United States would depend on North Korea’s behavior during the 2018 Winter Olympics, officials in Seoul said on Wednesday, while a halt to group tour...

Philippine President declares Christmas ceasefire

Philippine President declares Christmas ceasefire

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a 10-day unilateral ceasefire with communist rebels to allow Filipinos to celebrate a “stress-free” Christmas season, two weeks after peac...

Myanmar denies all access: UN Spl Rapporteur

Myanmar denies all access: UN Spl Rapporteur

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Myanmar government has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation withdrawn during her tenure. Lee had been due to visit Myanmar in Janu...

Crime show host jailed for wife's murder!

Crime show host jailed for wife's murder!

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

The host of a popular TV crime series has been sentenced to life in jail a New Delhi court for murdering his wife in 2000. Suhaib Ilyasi, who fronted India's Most Wanted, was found to have stabbed hi...

UN General Assembly to meet on Jerusalem status

UN General Assembly to meet on Jerusalem status

Reuters 2017-12-20 11:56:40

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday at the request of Arab and Muslim states on US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognis...

Myanmar authorities recover10 bodies in mass grave: army newspaper

Myanmar authorities recover10 bodies in mass grave: army newspaper

-- 2017-12-20 11:55:15

Myanmar authorities have found 10 bodies buried in a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State, the military-run newspaper Myawady reported on Tuesday. The bodies were found a day after th...

Taiwan probe angers Beijing

Taiwan probe angers Beijing

Reuters 2017-12-20 10:08:01

China has expressed its strong opposition and concern after the Taiwan government began a probe into a tiny but passionately pro-China opposition party for national security reasons, the latest flashp...

Myanmar, India ink Rakhine development MoU

Myanmar, India ink Rakhine development MoU

-- 2017-12-20 09:25:26

Neighbouring India and Myanmar have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Rakhine State Development Programme with an objective to restore normalcy in Rakhine State and enable the repatriation...

Arrested Reuters journos face court case in Myanmar

Arrested Reuters journos face court case in Myanmar

-- 2017-12-20 02:02:29

A spokesman for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Wednesday he had been informed that the police had almost completed their investigation of two arrested Reuters journalists, after which a court...

Chinese air force planes fly through Tsushima Strait

Chinese air force planes fly through Tsushima Strait

-- 2017-12-19 12:38:14

Chinese air force planes flew through Tsushima Strait for the first time and conducted drills in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. An air force spokesperson said on Monday. The drills, i...

Japan strengthening missile defence amid threat

Japan strengthening missile defence amid threat

-- 2017-12-19 12:23:00

Japan's Cabinet has approved a plan to purchase a set of costly land-based US missile combat systems to step up the country's defence capability amid escalating threats from North Korea. Tuesday's ap...