Ethnic minority rebels fighting Myanmar’s military junta said they had seized a key trading post on the northern frontier, across the border from where China’s military was conducting exercises to improve combat readiness and emergency response. Issued on: 27/11/2023 – 11:55 2 min A month of intense fighting between Myanmar’s ruling military and an alliance …
China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health Organization, which has asked the government for disease data, said no unusual or novel pathogens had been detected. Issued on: 24/11/2023 – 09:56 2 min China is grappling with a spike in respiratory illnesses as …
The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. Issued on: 22/11/2023 – 10:06Modified: 22/11/2023 – 14:00 3 min Authorities have closed mosques in the northern Ningxia region as …
Mumbai, India – A deafening silence and rows of empty seats: the Cricket World Cup 2023 ended the same way it had started. The Narendra Modi Stadium in India’s western state of Gujarat saw an exodus of fans long before Australia hit the winning runs in Sunday’s final. The Aussies are now six-time winners of …
Forty-one Indian workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 10 days were seen alive on camera for the first time Tuesday as workers attempted to create new passageways to free them. Issued on: 21/11/2023 – 08:25 2 min One of the proposed routes is nearly half a kilometre (over a quarter of a mile) …
US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spent some four hours together on Wednesday in their first face-to-face meeting in a year. As they convened at the Filoli Estate in northern California, the two leaders were aiming to make some headway in rebuilding ties strained over a whole host of issues – …
East Java, Indonesia – Umar Patek was released from prison last December after serving just over half of a 20-year jail sentence for the Bali holiday island bombings in 2002, which killed 202 people. He was also convicted for a series of bomb attacks on Christian churches on Christmas Eve, 2000, that left 18 dead. …
Almost 50,000 people have been displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched an offensive against the military two weeks ago, the United Nations said Friday. Issued on: 10/11/2023 – 07:01 3 min Fighting has raged for two weeks across northern Shan state near the Chinese border, in what …
Cramped Maxwell produces an all-time great innings to help Australia beat Afghanistan in Mumbai. Australia have reached the semifinals of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, courtesy an all-time great one-day international (ODI) innings from Glenn Maxwell as they beat Afghanistan by three wickets in Mumbai. Maxwell, heavily cramped and struggling to run, scored 201 …
Afghan women carry stories of sorrow and resilience. Credit: Learning Together Monday, November 06, 2023 Inter Press Service Nov 06 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons“When the sun rises in the morning, I see the light but …