Mumbai is bracing for a rare Arabian Sea cyclone, prompting coastal evacuations and transport suspensions. The 20-million hub has already been struggling for weeks with a major coronavirus outbreak. Source: Deutsche Welle – Asia …
VGP – Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc handed over made-in-Viet Nam face masks as gifts to the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) on the occasion of his meeting with CEO of the…
<p>The South African parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence has called on the country’s defence minister to intervene over Denel’s inability to meet contractual obligations related to the acquisition of Badger armoured fighting vehicles under…
Amid the bellicose posturing of the US-China trade war, Hong Kong is emerging as a safe port for China’s corporate refugees – but there are powerful reasons for at least some of these ADRs to…
The recent murder of an Iranian girl by her own father has highlighted women’s inequality and the country’s antiquated legal system. But religious authorities continue to oppose change. Source: Deutsche Welle – Asia Read…
A 71-year-old Rohingya man who died on the weekend has posthumously tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first resident of crowded refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh known to have succumbed to the disease, health officials…
ADB has raised 21 billion Mongolian togrog (MNT), about $7.5 million, in a groundbreaking issue of the first offshore MNT-linked nomad bonds. The issue sets a new benchmark in the international bond market for frontier… Source:…
North Korea is cracking down on the use of a specific sarcastic phrase uttered in a South Korean drama on the grounds that it is disrespectful to leader Kim Jong Un, amid an ongoing effort…
The Myanmar military has rejected a proposal by three ethnic armies to begin cease-fire talks in a bid to kick-start the country’s stalled peace process, instead vowing further retaliation for armed offensives and ambushes, a…
Gulshan Abbas, a Uyghur doctor from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who went missing after her Washington-based sister spoke out against Beijing’s policies in the region, has been confirmed detained nearly two years…