NEARLY 4000 PEOPLE MISSING Nearly 4,000 people are missing in Nepal following the collapse of a Himalayan glacier on the border with China that triggered a tsunami-like wall of freezing water and…
BANGKOK: Thailand will halve the length of visa-free stays for tourists from dozens of countries and territories to 30 days, effective Sep 15, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday (Sep 1). Tourism is…
HAGONOY: A Philippine couple tied the knot on Tuesday (Sep 1) at a Catholic church swamped in hip-deep waters, as heavy rains have pummelled large parts of the country for a month. Clutching a…
BANG KRUAI: A school in Thailand where a student went on a deadly shooting rampage three weeks ago reopened on Tuesday (Sep 1) amid heightened security, with police deployed and checks performed on…
SEOUL: The top policy adviser to South Korea’s president has resigned, officials said on Tuesday (Sep 1), following criticism over highly speculative investment products tied to the nation’s AI…
“IN LOVE” Hours after Trump’s August remarks – that it was important to get along with Kim – North Korea fired more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area. Then Kim Yo Jong…
“MOURN THE VICTIMS” Nepal said 987 bodies had been recovered, and listed 3,916 as missing. China’s state media reports 16 dead, and 546 people missing. That takes the overall number of dead to 1,003…
“In the area of the tunnels that we’re accessing at the moment, they’re very close to where the tsunami or explosion or whatever you want to call it happened. So we weren’t expecting to find anybody…
The minister cited an incident last week where some 170 hikers stranded in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park due to forest fires were rescued. Earlier in August, a fire burned for nearly a week at…
HONG KONG: Shares in online fast-fashion retailer Shein fell 8 per cent in their first day of Hong Kong trade on Tuesday (Sep 1), with investors worried about the impact of setbacks that long delayed…
Both main crude contracts rose on Tuesday, extending the previous day’s jump of more than 2 per cent. “The calibrated nature of the initial actions suggests neither side is actively seeking a return…
Lin Chia-lung was invited for meetings and side events held alongside the forum. Taiwan is not a formal dialogue partner of the forum like China, but a development partner. The US, EU, Britain…
KATHMANDU, Nepal: Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah said last week’s deadly Himalayan flood was “not an ordinary” event but driven by climate change, as he demanded international action. The huge…
A PANICKED ESCAPE Over 900 of the school’s roughly 1,600 students were on campus at the time of the first warning. Dawadi said he instructed buses that were headed to the school with more students to…
“NO RESPONSE” With mortuaries overflowing with the dead, Nepal has begun burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered after taking DNA samples so families can later retrieve them. Kathmandu has…
“NOT A SINGLE DROP” India’s Water Minister C.R. Patil said this year that the government would ensure that “not a single drop of water” will flow into Pakistan, which accused India of seeking to…
REAL AND TRADE WAR The Bishkek summit takes place at a time when some SCO members are in the midst of real wars – the Ukraine and Iran conflicts – or trade wars, with the imposition of US tariffs on…
JAKARTA: Air pollution in parts of Indonesia’s Central and West Kalimantan provinces on the island of Borneo have reached hazardous levels, according to readings from IQAir, a Swiss platform that…
OTHER RECIPIENTS The other two winners are Myanmar activist Bo Kyi, 61 and Bangladeshi teacher Runa Khan. Mr Bo Kyi, whose group documents human rights atrocities, was recognised for his efforts to…
SEOUL: A South Korean court on Monday (Aug 31) sentenced Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja to a combined two years in prison over political funding and bribery offences linked to efforts to gain…
