The streets of Shanghai are in a state of panic and disarray. After the new coronavirus outbreak, the measures being taken to control the pandemic are upsetting its inhabitants, who can be heard shouting in desperation from their balconies. Perhaps one of the reasons they are acting this way is the frustration and claustrophobia they […]
In many countries in Southeast Asia, such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, the arrival of spring also marks the beginning of the new year. Songkran (สงกรานต์), as the festival welcoming in the new year is called in Thai, is often celebrated with playful water fights on city streets over the course of three chaotic […]
A biologist from the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University working with researchers from Germany and Myanmar has discovered two of the world’s newest stream frogs in Myanmar highlighting the remaining diversity of ecosystems in Southeast Asia and cautions all those involved of the need to conserve our forests before our valuable wildlife become extinct. At […]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a horror. And it is so because of images such as those left by the passage of Vladimir Putin’s troops through the city of Bucha, in the Kiev region, where dozens of corpses of civilians and soldiers are accumulated, some of them in mass graves. This is an area […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Coronavirus infections in Asia passed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the region records a resurgence in cases, dominated by the BA.2 Omicron sub-variant. The region is reporting over 1 million new COVID-19 cases about every two days, according to a Reuters analysis. With more than half of […]
President Rodrigo Duterte is alleging that communist insurgents waging a decades-old insurgency have gained a foothold in the Philippine Congress through representation by leftist groups. Several left-leaning organizations are fronts for the rebels waging a decades-old insurgency and have gained seats in the House of Representatives, the Philippine leader said during his weekly “talk to […]
The Japanese government said today that it has lodged a protest with Russia over the military maneuvers that the neighboring country plans to carry out in several of the Kuril Islands whose sovereignty is claimed by Tokyo. The Japanese government submitted its complaints through diplomatic channels to Moscow last week, after Russia issued a maritime […]
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 carrying 132 passengers that crashed Monday in southeastern China “descended more than 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) in just over a minute” according to The New York Times. FlightRadar24 data indicates that it plummeted nearly 8,000 meters (26,246 feet) in three minutes. The plane had its point of departure in […]
