Kabul (dpa) – In a Kabul university, a student recently refused to answer roll call when his number was called. He had been allocated the dreaded number 39, which is associated with pimps in the minds of superstitious Afghans, and shunned as a bad omen. “I am stuck with this number and I am quite [...]
Berlin (dpa) – Asian cinema returned to the Berlin Film Festival’s center stage Wednesday with the world premieres of films by two of the region’s rising stars. While Indonesian director Edwin explores human concerns about loneliness and isolation in his movie Kebun Binatang (Postcards From the Zoo), Chinese director Wang Quan’an returns to the festival [...]
Bangkok (dpa) – Thai officials on Wednesday said it was too early to link three blasts in Bangkok to international terrorist groups. “At the moment, there is no evidence linking this incident to terrorism,” Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said. On Tuesday, an explosion in a rented house in Bangkok prompted the four foreign residents to [...]
Hanoi (dpa) – A rare animal known as the Asian unicorn is under threat from loss of forest habitat, and wildlife officials are trying to protect it in Vietnam’s central forests. One of the world’s rarest mammals, the saola is a large bovine with long, straight horns that is thought to live only in the [...]
DUBAI: Health officials in Malaysia have confirmed that two children have been killed and another 3,000 ill as a result of a rotavirus outbreak in the northern part of the country. More and more people from the region are looking for treatment, health officials told Bikyamasr.com on Wednesday. The outbreak occurred in late January and [...]
Bangkok (dpa) – Police arrested an Iranian national at Bangkok’s airport after linking him with three explosions in the Thai capital and were searching for a third suspect Wednesday. The defense minister, Air Chief Marshal Sukhumpol Suwannathat, insisted Wednesday that the explosions were not acts of terrorism but failed to provide an explanation for Tuesday’s [...]
Bangkok (dpa) – A man thought to be Iranian blew his own leg off with a grenade after being refused a cab ride in Bangkok. The man, identified as Saeib Morabi, allegedly tried to get in a taxi in the city center Monday but was refused a ride by the driver, prompting him to toss [...]
DUBAI: The website of Malaysia’s stock market was hit with a cyber attack on Tuesday, making the site inaccessible to users due to excess traffic from multiple sources, the country’s exchange reported in a statement Tuesday. Bursa Malaysia said many of its users were not able to access the website late Monday due to the [...]
DUBAI: A New Zeland man has been sentenced to three years in jail for organizing child sex tours in Thailand, the country’s local press reported. The businessman, 48, was handed the jail term by the High Court in Auckland after being found guilty of the illicit actions last year in a trial. The man, whose [...]
Beijing (dpa) – A teenage Tibetan monk has set fire to himself in a restive town in south-western China, while some 200 Tibetans protested in another town, reports said on Tuesday. Lobsang Gyatso, 19, set fire to himself on Monday in Aba town, or Ngaba in Tibetan, London-based Free Tibet said. Police put out the [...]
Hong Kong (dpa) – A woman was jailed for 10 months for helping so-called maternity tourists from mainland China cross the border to give birth in Hong Kong, the government said Tuesday. Xu Li, 29, is the first person to be prosecuted by the immigration department in a drive to curb the number of women [...]
Kathmandu (dpa) – Nepal’s Special Court convicted a British businessman and his Nepalese associate Monday, as well as three high-level police officers, on charges of involvement in a multi-million dollar procurement scam for UN forces in Sudan. Three former police inspectors and two suppliers were convicted of embezzling funds during the procurement of equipment for [...]
Kabul (dpa) – NATO-led troops killed fifteen civilians, including at least eight children, in airstrikes last week, an Afghan committee appointed to investigate the deaths said Monday. The killings took place during two separate operations conducted by US, Afghan and French soldiers in the north-eastern province of Kapisa and the eastern province of Kunar. Seven [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel on Monday blamed Iran for two attacks that targeted its diplomatic missions in India and Georgia. “In recent months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in several countries, including Azerbaijan, Thailand and others,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Today we have witnessed two additional [...]
Taipei (dpa) – Taipei health authorities ordered two grocery chains to remove beef ribs from the United States from their shelves Monday after random testing found traces of the drug ractopamine. The order affects one branch of international hypermarket chain Carrefour, as well as a branch of local hypermarket RT-Mart. Taipei authorities said the ribs [...]
Kabul (dpa) – Afghan intelligence agents foiled a suicide bombing attack by two 10-year-old boys, one of whom was pardoned by President Hamid Karzai last year, officials said Monday. “The government is assessing this issue very seriously and why they were forced to carry out a suicide mission,” presidential spokesman Seyamak Herawi said. “We are [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – Microsoft’s online store in India was down Monday after it was allegedly hacked by a Chinese group calling itself Evil Shadow Team. The site www.microsoftstore.co.in was offline with a message saying that the company was working to restore access. The security breach occurred Sunday night. The company declined to comment on [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Faiza Abul-Naga signed on Sunday, with the Japanese Ambassador to Cairo, Norihiro Okuda, a Japanese grant agreement, for $6.4 million, equivalent to 38.5 million Egyptian pounds. The Japanese grant`s value will be allocated to three Egyptian projects, the minister said. One for the Holding Company for Cotton, [...]
Berlin (dpa) – A previously unknown poisonous mushroom is the culprit in scores of mysterious deaths in China, according to a team of Chinese researchers who reported their findings in the German journal Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry). Over the past 30 years, more than 260 otherwise perfectly healthy people in the south-western Chinese province of [...]
Beijing (dpa) – A 19-year-old Tibetan Buddhist nun died en route to a hospital following a self-immolation protest in south-western China’s Sichuan province, state media said on Monday. Tenzin Choedron set herself alight Saturday evening in Sichuan’s Aba area, Xinhua news agency quoted local officials as saying. The agency said she was a nun at [...]
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