Indian officials lobbied U.S. officials to end pressure on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at least a year before she was ousted in student protests. This is what the influential American media Washington Post said about the American and Indian officials. According to reports, US diplomats publicly criticized Sheikh Hasina for jailing thousands of opposition […]
Read MoreAn earthquake of magnitude 6.3 has struck the eastern city of Hualien in the Central Asian country of Taiwan. The Meteorological Department said that the earthquake struck on Friday (August 16). The news agency Reuters reported in a report that the Hualien city of Taiwan was shaken by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Friday morning […]
Read MorePetangtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of the country’s former prime minister and tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, is going to take charge as the youngest Prime Minister of Thailand. He got the support of the number of senators needed to become the Prime Minister. As a result, 37-year-old Petang Tarn is going to lead Thailand as the youngest […]
Read MoreOut of 173 speeches of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 110 were anti-Muslim. The Wire and The Hindu published the information on Wednesday citing Human Rights Watch. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made 173 campaign speeches since the code of conduct came into effect in March ahead of this year’s Lok Sabha elections in India. […]
Read MorePrime Minister of India Narendra Modi with the chief advisor of the interim government. Muhammad Yunus had a phone conversation. In the phone conversation, he assured Modi to provide security to Hindus. Modi gave a post on X on Friday about this. Media NDTV said, in the phone conversation. Muhammad Yunus assured the Prime Minister […]
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 […]
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