Reuters 2023-02-18 13:30:21
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Saturday that the country "will not lose an inch" of territory, his remarks coming on the heels of continuing maritime tensions with Beijing in the So...
Reuters 2023-02-18 12:59:09
A group of Chinese officials arrived in Taiwan on Saturday on the first visit in three years, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, to attend a cultural event at a time of soaring military tensions acros...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-18 12:15:53
Myanmar's pro-democracy forces want the United States to issue stronger sanctions against the junta that seized power in the country two years ago and increase funding for pro-democratic forces, the p...
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The Indian government has decided to further reduce the reserve price of wheat from March 31 to check the inflationary trend in the food economy. According to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food,...
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India’s finance ministry accused the BBC of tax evasion on Friday, saying that it had not fully declared its income and profits from its operations in the country. Indian tax authorities ended...
-- 2023-02-17 16:44:07
Indian tax officials on Thursday left the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, after a three-day inspection that involved the cloning of data from some digital devices, the tax department said. The...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 12:41:36
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says a Chinese weather balloon landed on one of its outlying islands, amid U.S. accusations that such craft have been dispatched worldwide to spy on Washington and its...
Reuters 2023-02-17 11:49:28
China's top leaders declared a "decisive victory" over COVID-19, claiming the world's lowest fatality rate, although experts have questioned Beijing's data as the coronovirus tore across the country a...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:24:28
The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle rose to seven on Friday, and New Zealanders were told the number was likely to rise because emergency services have not yet made contact with hundreds of communit...
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Indian tax officials examined mobile phones and laptops used by some BBC editorial and administrative employees, two sources said, as an inspection at the British broadcaster's offices in New Delhi an...
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Sri Lanka's electricity regulator has approved a 65 per cent hike in electricity tariffs effective from Wednesday, a government source told Reuters. The latest hike comes in addition to a 75 per cent...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-15 13:45:44
In two months, India is projected to become the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won't know how many people it has...
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A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, but did not leave damages or casualties, the country's weather agency said. The Indonesian Agency for Meteorologica...
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India's income tax department conducted searches at the BBC's New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, two sources said. The income tax department and the BBC did not immediately respond to emails se...
Reuters 2023-02-14 12:13:14
New Zealand declared a national state of emergency for only the third time in its history on Tuesday as Cyclone Gabrielle caused widespread flooding,...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 11:57:22
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has "nothing to hide or be afraid of" on the controversy over Adani group, the home minister said on Tuesday, responding to opposition allegations of favour...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 10:36:02
Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming years, its energy minister told Reuters on Mon...
-- 2023-02-13 18:17:22
China's foreign ministry says the US has flown balloons into its airspace more than 10 times in the past year. The accusation comes after the US on February 04 shot down a suspected spy balloon over...
-- 2023-02-13 17:31:01
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at 09:18:07 GMT on Monday, reports Xinhua citing the US Geological Survey. The epicenter, with a depth of 374.033 km, was in...
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Several explosions rocked the Gaza Strip early on Monday, according to a Reuters witness, as Israel's military said it attacked an underground site used by the Palestinian enclave's Hamas Islamists to...
-- 2023-02-12 18:55:11
Turkish officials detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers on Sunday continued to pull a few survivors from the...
-- 2023-02-12 17:15:52
China shipped 53 tonnes of tents to aid earthquake-hit Turkey on Sunday, with more emergency aid planned in the near future, state broadcaster CCTV said. The tents departed Shanghai and are scheduled...
Reuters 2023-02-12 13:13:28
The Islamic Republic marked the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution on Saturday with state-organised rallies, as anti-government hackers briefly interrupted a televised speech by President Ebra...
Reuters 2023-02-12 11:25:23
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday for a fifth week of protests against judicial overhaul plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government which critics say threa...
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A woman died in hospital on Saturday a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday's devastating earthq...
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India's market regulator is investigating Adani Group's links to some of the investors in the conglomerate's aborted $2.5 billion share sale, two sources said, amid growing concern in New Delhi about...
-- 2023-02-10 15:49:03
The rescue of several survivors from the rubble in Turkey lifted the spirits of weary search crews on Friday, four days after a major earthquake struck the country and neighbouring Syria, killing more...
Reuters 2023-02-10 13:07:16
A Chinese health official has urged local governments to take "bold" steps to lower the cost of having babies and raising children to reduce the burden on families and boost fertility, a state-backed...
Reuters 2023-02-10 12:46:47
India will drop the pre-departure COVID test requirement for travellers coming from or via China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said, as COVID-...
-- 2023-02-09 18:48:31
Rescuers have moved 21 Bangladeshis in Turkey to Ankara from areas devastated by earthquakes, hospitalising two of them. The authorities “shifted” 19 students, along with the injured, to...
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