Beijing — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, warning of the dangers of misunderstandings and miscalculations as the United States and China butted heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional and global issues. Blinken met with Xi in Beijing after holding talks with …
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Yavatmal, India – Like everyone else around him, Vithal Rathod was excited for what the future held for him and their village when Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister on May 26, 2014. Just two months earlier, on March 20 that year, Modi had picked the 45-year-old farmer’s village of Dabhadi from the more than 15,500 …
Rotanak Ros, widely known as Chef Nak, travels around Cambodia preserving and spotlighting traditional Khmer recipes. On top of hosting home dining, cooking classes and food-focused homestays, she also curates the Khmer section of the menu at the Rosewood Phnom Penh’s French-Cambodian Brasserie Louis. She says the region’s ancient cuisine comprises “at least a thousand …
Considering Azerbaijan spans two continents, has a colourful history dating back millennia and a culture influenced by surrounding countries from Russia to Armenia, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this country is a melting pot of creativity. Just half a decade ago, even Azerbaijanis looked elsewhere for fashionable finds, as designer Nazrin …
Most casualties have been from roof collapses, while some 600 houses have been damaged or destroyed, authorities say. At least 33 people have been killed over three days of heavy rains and flash flooding in Afghanistan, according to the government’s disaster management department. “From Friday onwards, because of the rains there were flash floods which …
Thiruvananthapuram, India – A tangled gun strap almost cost Prince Sebastian his life. It was 6pm local time on February 4. Prince and his contingent of soldiers fighting for the Russian army were advancing towards a battlefield in Luhansk in occupied Ukraine. It wasn’t what Prince – a fisherman from the southern Indian state of Kerala …
Seoul condemned North Korea’s alleged attempts to interefere in the upcoming parliamentary polls scheduled to be held this month. The country’s Unification Ministry accused North Korean state-run media of “spreading propaganda” against President Yoon Suk-yeol’s government, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. “The government once again strongly warns of North Korea’s malicious attempts that have been strengthening …
In 2023, Bangladesh recorded the worst air quality of 134 countries monitored by the Swiss climate group, IQAir. Pakistan and India were close behind, with the report showing that South Asia suffers from the worst pollution in the world overall. Here are some insights from the report and what it tells us about the South …
Rajesh Jatavad*, a delivery rider for Zomato, a food delivery app in southern India, is worried about his full name being displayed for customers on the platform – because his last name reveals that he belongs to a marginalised caste. More privileged communities among India’s caste system historically considered castes like Jatavad’s “untouchables”. Jatavad’s worry …