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Mahathir apologises for past mistakes

Mahathir apologises for past mistakes

FE Online Desk 2017-12-31 04:56:21

Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad apologised "for whatever wrongdoing" he had done during his time in politics. The opposition party is pushing Mahathir Mohamad to lead Malaysia agai...

Israel leaves UNESCO

Israel leaves UNESCO

-- 2017-12-31 04:50:25

UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay says she has received Israel's official letter announcing its exit from the U.N. cultural body.  Israel previously said it intended to leave the Paris-based agency,...

Six die in Sydney seaplane crash

Six die in Sydney seaplane crash

-- 2017-12-31 03:29:19

A seaplane crashed into a Sydney river on Sunday, killing six people on a “wine and dine” sightseeing flight ahead of the city’s harbor-centred New Year’s Eve celebrations. Po...

South Korea seizes another ship over oil transfer to North Korea

South Korea seizes another ship over oil transfer to North Korea

Reuters 2017-12-31 03:11:19

South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday. The KOTI...

Beijing may be starting to win its battle against smoke

Beijing may be starting to win its battle against smoke

-- 2017-12-30 12:43:43

Beijing may have turned a corner in its battle against the city’s notorious smoke and the Chinese government deserves much of the credit for introducing tough anti-pollution measures. The Chine...

Price protests in Iran turn political

Price protests in Iran turn political

Reuters 2017-12-30 12:23:47

Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran on Friday, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrat...

29 preschoolers sick with suspected food poisoning in China

29 preschoolers sick with suspected food poisoning in China

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

A total of 29 kindergarten children have been sent to hospital with suspected food poisoning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local government said Saturday. The suspected food poisoning occ...

22 Indian teens go missing in France

22 Indian teens go missing in France

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

The CBI has registered an FIR after 22 minors from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi were illegally taken to France by three travel agents last year in the garb of giving them rugby coaching and went missing....

China jails 36 over extortion, homicide, illegal casinos

China jails 36 over extortion, homicide, illegal casinos

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

A Chinese court has sentenced 36 people to prison terms of up to 25 years for gang crimes including homicide, assault and setting up illegal casinos. Hainan gang leader Huang Tuwang was sentenced to...

Massive anti-govt protests rock Iran

Massive anti-govt protests rock Iran

-- 2017-12-30 10:33:42

Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrations since...

Myanmar frees journalists working for Turkish broadcaster

Myanmar frees journalists working for Turkish broadcaster

-- 2017-12-30 02:13:11

Myanmar on Friday freed two journalists working for Turkey’s state broadcaster, their local interpreter and a driver after they completed a two-month jail sentence for violating an aircraft law...

Tension rises as India listing 'illegal Bangladeshis'

Tension rises as India listing 'illegal Bangladeshis'

FE Online Desk 2017-12-29 12:00:00

India has mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in a sensitive border state ahead of the publication of a list of its citizens. The drive will be used to detect and deport illegal im...

Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei offer 144-hour visa-free transit

Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei offer 144-hour visa-free transit

-- 2017-12-29 12:00:00

China extended its visa-free period for people transiting through Beijing to 144 hours Thursday, and added neighbouring Hebei Province and Tianjin City to the program. Transit air, train, and ship pa...

Mumbai's Kamala Mills fire kills 14

Mumbai's Kamala Mills fire kills 14

-- 2017-12-29 11:22:55

Fourteen people were killed and many others injured in a late night fire at a multi-storey building in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel in Mumbai. The fire broke out shortly after midnight on the...

Korea seizes oil supplying ship to DPRK

Korea seizes oil supplying ship to DPRK

-- 2017-12-29 09:56:29

South Korea on Friday has revealed it seized a Hong Kong-registered ship last month suspected of supplying oil to the North in breach of international sanctions. Officials said the Lighthouse Winmore...

No illicit oil sales to North Korea: China

No illicit oil sales to North Korea: China

-- 2017-12-29 05:03:56

After facing after US President Donald Trump's criticism, China has denied the reports of illicitly selling oil products to North Korea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporte...

Army warns US against ‘unilateral action’ in Pakistan

Army warns US against ‘unilateral action’ in Pakistan

-- 2017-12-29 03:53:17

The military warned the US against ‘unilateral action’, saying that despite its desire for cooperation on Afghanistan, there could be no compromise on national respect and sovereignty. &l...

India rounds up over 103 men for ISIS link

India rounds up over 103 men for ISIS link

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 12:00:00

At least 103 people accused of having links with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been arrested in India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the central counter t...

UN calls for pressure on China, Russia over Myanmar abuses

UN calls for pressure on China, Russia over Myanmar abuses

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar....

Israel parliament passes police-muzzling law

Israel parliament passes police-muzzling law

-- 2017-12-28 11:47:55

Israel’s parliament ratified on Thursday a law barring police investigators from going public with their findings, in what opposition lawmakers saw as a bid to soften scrutiny of corruption prob...

Mine blast kills six Afghan babies

Mine blast kills six Afghan babies

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 07:53:22

A roadside mine killed six children in the Afghan’s Northern Province of Balkh on Thursday. "A group of children were playing near a school in Dawlat Abad district Wednesday evening, but one...

Myanmar upgrades boarder fence with Bangladesh

Myanmar upgrades boarder fence with Bangladesh

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 04:46:27

The Union Government of Myanmar will provide K20 billion for fencing along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.It has taken as a first phase to quickly implement the project. The Ministry of Home Affairs o...

Myanmar ‘feels sad’ over US sanction on military general

Myanmar ‘feels sad’ over US sanction on military general

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 04:31:02

Myanmar “feels sad” over a US decision to sanction a military general, a government spokesman said. Washington linked the commander last week to abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minorit...

Deadly suicide bombing in Kabul kills 40

Deadly suicide bombing in Kabul kills 40

-- 2017-12-28 02:51:42

A suicide attack on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and a neighboring cultural center in the capital Kabul killed dozens on Thursday, officials and witnesses said, with many of the victims s...

Medium-term  outlook for India's growth remains healthy : S & P

Medium-term outlook for India's growth remains healthy : S & P

FE Online Desk 2017-12-27 12:46:12

SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) Dec. 27--S&P Global Ratings Tuesday published its "Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment: India."   "We classify the banking sector of India in group...

Myanmar remands Reuters journos for two more weeks

Myanmar remands Reuters journos for two more weeks

-- 2017-12-27 12:00:00

A court in Myanmar agreed on Wednesday to remand two Reuters journalists in custody for a second 14-day period as authorities continued a probe into allegations that they breached the nation’s O...

Syria approves medical evacuations in rebel-held area

Syria approves medical evacuations in rebel-held area

-- 2017-12-27 11:20:19

Medical evacuations have begun from the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to Damascus, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria said early on Wednesday. Almost 400,000 people i...

Erdogan calls Syria's Assad a terrorist

Erdogan calls Syria's Assad a terrorist

-- 2017-12-27 07:10:08

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called Syrian President Bashar al Assad a terrorist and it is impossible for Syrian peace efforts to continue with him. “Assad is definitely a terrorist who...

Vietnam jails 15 over plot to blow up airport

Vietnam jails 15 over plot to blow up airport

-- 2017-12-27 06:38:00

A Vietnamese court on Wednesday sentenced 15 people to multiple years in jail for plotting to blow up the country’s biggest airport in Ho Chi Minh city. A local newspaper said the 15 were charg...

Mild tremor hits Tehran; one dead

Mild tremor hits Tehran; one dead

-- 2017-12-27 02:06:15

One person died of heart attack and at least 56 people were slightly wounded after a 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook an area 50 km (31 miles) west of the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, the state...