At least 12 people, including eight foreign employees of the United Nations, have been killed in northern Afghanistan, after a protest against the burning of the Quran turned violent, Afghan police said Friday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned as “cowardly” the attack on the U.N. mission ‘s compound in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province. […]
India’s 2011 census reports that its population has increased by 181 million in the space of one decade, a figure 17.6 percent greater than 2001. The census results, publicised today, show the population of India now stands at 1.21 billion. C. Chandramauli, the commissioner of the census, said India’s population represents “over 17 percent of […]
Rangoon – Burma’s military supermo announced the junta that ruled the country for the past two decades would be disbanded Wednesday in favour of a newly elected government. Burmese military announces end of junta after more than two decades. “The State Peace and Development Council will be disbanded after the swearing-in ceremony for the new […]
British Airways has come under criticism once again, and just as strike fears flare up again, this time for giving preferential treatment to ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his aides – at the expense of a heavily pregnant woman, her husband and several other confirmed passengers on the flight from Oman to London via Abu […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company has retracted its announcement that 10 million times the normal density of radioactive materials had been detected in water at the Number 2 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The utility says it will conduct another test of the leaked water at the reactor’s turbine building. NHK.or.jp
Yesterday the Health Ministry claimed that China issued a national ban on smoking in all indoor public spaces. The ban is included in the government’s 12th Five-Year Plan. Also banned is smoking in outdoor public areas where pedestrians pass. The ban will begin May 1. China, with a third of the world’s smoking population at […]
An Australian man was jailed for a year on Friday for defacing Facebook tributes to two dead children with child pornography and offensive comments. Bradley Paul Hampson vandalised the Facebook pages dedicated to two Queensland children who died in February 2010 — a 12-year-old boy who was stabbed in the schoolyard and an eight-year-old girl […]
Bangkok March 24, 2011 (AIT News) – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit northeastern Myanmar on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 9:55 EST. The quake measured magnitude 7.0. The earthquake struck 589 km (365 miles) NE of Rangoon, Myanmar, 89 km (55 miles) N of Chiang Rai, Thailand and 772 km (479 miles) NNE of […]
