By Masum Billah Baku, Azerbaijan – November 12, 2024 — The 29th United Nations climate conference (COP29) officially kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, with high-stakes discussions set to dominate the next two weeks. As the world faces escalating climate challenges, particularly devastating weather events and record-breaking global temperatures, the spotlight at this year’s […]
Read MorePaetongtarn Shinawatra became Thailand’s second female prime minister on Friday. Thai lawmakers elected the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister, elevating a third member of the influential but divisive clan to the nation’s top job. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, whose father and aunt have served as premier, became the youngest leader in Thailand’s history […]
Read MoreBeijing’s foreign minister said Friday that China supported a plan by Myanmar’s junta to hold fresh elections. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military deposed the government of Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power in 2021. The coup upended a ten-year experiment with democracy and a subsequent military crackdown has […]
Read MoreThe Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, who leaves office in October after a decade in power, hailed his economic track record in a final state of the nation address on Friday. Widodo, more popularly known as Jokowi, will be replaced by defence chief Prabowo Subianto after serving the maximum two terms, with more than three-quarters of […]
Read MoreA Chinese mining company has revealed that it lost 12kg (26lbs) of gold – worth US$900,000 – in an armed robbery in Ghana earlier this year. Shenzhen-listed gold mining firm Beijing Xiaocheng Technology Stock Co disclosed in its half-year financial report released on Wednesday that “five to six” suspects had been arrested and detained at […]
Read MoreBy Chris Rickleton ALMATY, Kazakhstan — A diplomat before he became a politician, Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has mastered the art of getting a timely message across while leaving his audience pondering what the message means. His call last week for closer defense cooperation among Central Asian countries is a case in point. The proposal […]
Read MoreNew Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Highlighting the remarkable bilateral trade between India and Vietnam, Ministry of External Affairs, Secretary (East), Jaideep Mazumdar said that the bilateral trade is around USD 15 billion, adding that both nations’ leaders feel that this could be “significantly increased”. Vietnam is one of India’s closest partners in the ASEAN […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday accused Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab of cowardice after his Facebook post on the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was removed, in his government’s latest run-in with the firm over blocked content. Muslim-majority Malaysia is a supporter of the Palestinian cause and […]
Read MoreThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries signed the “Cambodia Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Project”, supported by the Pandemic Fund with a $19.5 million grant. “The [fund’s] grant will support Cambodia in building its capacity to prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemic […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Air India today suspended its flights to and from Israel’s Tel Aviv with immediate effect till August 8 amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. “In view of the ongoing situation in parts of the Middle East, we have suspended scheduled operation of our flights to and from Tel Aviv with immediate effect […]
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