Sky News: The collapsed Genoa bridge that left 43 people dead will take just eight months to rebuild, its operator has said. Giovanni Castellucci, the chief executive of Autostrade per L’Italia, also said the new bridge would be made of steel. The firm is responsible for the collapsed Morandi Bridge and has come under heavy…
AFP: Belarus’s strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday sacked his prime minister and other key members of government following a corruption scandal that saw top officials arrested. Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov will be replaced by former development bank head Sergei Rumas, the president’s press office said in a statement. Several vice-premiers as well as the…
Xinhua: An outbreak of African swine fever has been discovered at a farm in the city of Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Sunday. The farm in Haizhou District has reported 615 infected pigs and 88 have died after deaths began to be registered on Aug. 15, the ministry…
Kabir Humayun: A five-member probe body was formed to look into Saturday’s killings of seven UPDF members in Khagrachhari district. District magistrate M Shahidul Islam formed the five-member body on Saturday night with additional district magistrate Md Abu Yusuf with its convener, reports The Daily Observer. Sadar UNO Shamsul Tabrij was made committee’s member secretary….
Reuters: Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar usually keep a low profile for fear of intimidation, but Win Lae Phyu Sin, one of the community’s rare bloggers on beauty care, has gone the other way. The 19-year-old was the center of attraction at a recent launch of beauty products in Yangon, her striking multi-colored make-up offset by…
UNB: Following last year’s success, rice farmers in Comilla once again are looking forward to another successful harvest of the Aman variety this year, as moderate rainfall during the ongoing monsoon season allowed them to plant their seedlings at the right time. If the weather remains amenable then the expected production target may be exceeded,…
Reuters: Residents of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, watched as cattle were lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey home ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha. Unlike other Muslims who buy animals for slaughter a few days before the sacrificial holiday, Syed Ejaz Ahmad, 55, said raising his own calves was more economical….
Nabilah Husna, Communications manager at AWARE/Channel NewsAsia According to a survey of 809 teenage boys that AWARE published last year, nine in 10 teenage boys reported facing pressures to be “manly” through experiences of harassment, bullying, teasing, social exclusion, and psychological and physical violence. The most common forms of such pressure are being told to…
Desk Report: Electricity coverage through Solar Mini Grid Project in hard-to-reach river islands (chars) have been improving the lives of char people as well as fuelling the local economy, reports Financial Express. The state-run Infrastructure Development Company Ltd has been implementing such SMGPs through its partner organisations in remote char areas across the country. The…
Cassandra Cross/The Conversation, Australia It is easy for those of us who have ignored emails from Nigerian princes or refused to transfer money on behalf of an online love interest to scroll past stories about scams, thinking it could never be us. But so far this year, Australians have reported losing more than AU$76 million…