At least 40 people have died and more than 1,000 have tested positive for swine flu since the beginning of the year in a western Indian state popular with foreigners, according to authorities. The highly contagious H1N1 virus that spreads from human-to-human killed around 1,100 people and infected 15,000 across the country last year. “Total deaths are 40 and positive cases are… Read more »
Agartala, India – Police in India’s northeastern state of Tripura have arrested 31 Muslim Rohingya who were fleeing a recent crackdown by India’s Hindu nationalist government. The group, which included 16 children and six women, was arrested on Tuesday after it was denied entry into Bangladesh and border officials from the two nations failed to agree on what to do with them. India regards the Muslim-majority Rohingya as illegal aliens and… Read more »
Beijing (CNN)China’s universities have always been a breeding ground for political activism, from the May Fourth Movement which helped lead to the Communist revolution, to the 1989 pro-democracy protests which sought to reform it.Today, however, China’s leaders have no intention of allowing students to challenge them, as a months-long crackdown against a Marxist university group demonstrates.This week, footage reportedly emerged… Read more »
KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a car bomb attack near a heavily fortified foreign compound in Kabul that killed five people, including an Indian national.Afghan injured men receive treatment at a hospital after a car bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani The bombing sparked international condemnation as efforts increase to… Read more »
A series of Taliban attacks in western and northern Afghanistan has killed 21 members of the country’s security forces, Afghan officials say. Jamshed Shahabi, spokesperson for the governor in western Badghis province, said the fighters overran outposts there, killing six policemen on Wednesday. Council member Shamsul Haq Baeakzai in northern Baghlan province said seven members of the local police force were killed there on the… Read more »
One of two Indian women who entered an ancient Hindu hill temple in southern India this month in defiance of a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age alleged she was beaten up by her mother-in-law. Kanaka Durga, 39, a civil servant, suffered injuries to her head and had to be hospitalised, police said on Tuesday. She claims she was attacked only… Read more »
For Asian countries like Thailand, South Korea, China and India, they’ve been locked under a blanket of smog for years that will only continue to get worse with time. All the countries, including Hong Kong, are facing dangerously high levels of pollution while coal heating and emissions contribute to the already thick layer of smog. Not just including the Asian… Read more »
North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy has disappeared from the diplomatic compound in Rome, according to South Korea’s spy agency. NPR’s Seoul Correspondent Anthony Kuhn reports the South Korean National Intelligence Service briefed lawmakers in a closed-door hearing Thursday. Ambassador Jo Song Gil and his wife disappeared from the diplomatic compound in Rome in November, before his term was set… Read more »
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s astronomical victory in Bangladesh‘s general elections, analysts and opposition leaders say, will turn the South Asian country into a “one-party state”. The Grand Alliance led by the ruling Awami League (AL) party bagged 288 seats, leaving just 10 seats for others, including seven seats for the main opposition alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Voting was… Read more »
(CNN)North Korea’s sixth nuclear test was so powerful that it’s still triggering earthquakes more than a year later.South Korea’s Meteorological Administration (KMA) said a small quake that hit in North Korea’s North Hamgyong province Wednesday was induced by the September 2017 underground detonation of a nuclear device.That nuclear test was North Korea’s most powerful to date, with an estimated explosive… Read more »