TEHRAN (Tasnim) – India reported a record daily increase of coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, exacerbating shortages of oxygen supplies and hospital beds in some of the worst-hit cities of the country. India reported 261,500 new cases, taking the total caseload to nearly 14.8 million, second only […]
Myanmar civilian politicians and activists launched a “National Unity Government” on Friday, centered on ousted national leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other lawmakers elected last November, to marshal domestic and international support for ending the bloody rule of the military junta. The launch of the parallel government by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), […]
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on a violent note in the southern Philippines where authorities mounted a deadly raid on a suspected pro-Islamic State bomber’s hideout and a family of three was killed in an ambush, officials said Wednesday. Police were dispatched to Datu Salibo town in Maguindanao province to arrest Abu Naim, […]
A Chinese company has signed an agreement with Lao authorities to study the prospects for development of 5,000 hectares of land in southern Laos’ Attapeu province, raising concerns among residents that investors will take more land over time, destroying local livelihoods, Lao sources say. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on April 7 allows China’s […]
Violence in the security forces’ response to the two-month-old pro-democracy protests in Myanmar has become the norm. At least 82 people were killed in a police and military crackdown on protesters in Bago, some 65 kilometers northeast of Yangon – the country’s commercial capital – between Thursday and Friday. A tally that only came to […]
The four-day COVID-19 vaccine “festival” kicked off by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes amid a crippling domestic shortage of jabs, with at least 10 Indian states saying that their supplies will run out within days. The federal authorities, however, say that the South Asian country is facing no shortage of vaccines. Indian Prime Minister […]
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, the quake hit 91 kilometres (57 miles) south-southeast of Blitar, with an epicentre located at a depth of 96 kilometres (over 59 miles). Initially, a magnitude of 6.8 was reported, but the number was later revised. “The agency has recorded six dead and one person who sustained serious injuries”, […]
Myanmar security forces mowed down more than 60 people with rifle grenades and machine guns as they cleared barricades built by anti-junta protesters in the central Myanmar city of Bago on Friday, leaving piles of bodies in pagodas and on school grounds of the ancient city, witnesses said. Police and soldiers rained bullets and grenades […]
