Wionews: As India will celebrate its 72nd Independence Day on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort. This will be his last Independence Day address before next year’s general elections. In the hour-long address, Modi is expected to present the report card of his government –…
Asian Age: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Myanmar must accept Rohingyas because they are their citizens as they have lived in Myanmar for generations. Mahathir blasted Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims and said he was “very disappointed” with leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s failure to halt oppression of the group. “It’s grossly unjust…
BBC: Venezuela’s president has said its subsidised fuel prices should rise, to stop smugglers cheating the country out of billions of dollars. “Gasoline must be sold at an international price to stop smuggling to Colombia and the Caribbean,” Nicolás Maduro said in a televised address. Like many oil producing nations, Venezuela offers its citizens heavily…
Geek Feed: After trying his hand at Transformers then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michael Bay is now turning his attention into adapting another beloved childhood figure, Dora the Explorer. Bay is working on a live-action movie, and now it looks like we have the first image of Isabela Moner in character online. I’ll admit, I…
Desk Report: Despite the ongoing crackdown against drug traders, smuggling of various deadly drugs like yaba into the country has marked a sharp rise ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, reports Daily Sun. Detective sources said drug traffickers have become active targeting the Eid festival and they are bringing yaba tablets and phensidyl syrup to the country from neighbouring…
Reuters: A former provincial governor accused of sexual abuse in one of South Korea’s most high-profile cases inspired by the “MeToo” movement was found not guilty by a Seoul district court on Tuesday. An Hee-jung was a rising star in South Korea’s ruling party before he quit his post in March, just hours after an…
AP: Congo’s health ministry says a deadly Ebola outbreak has spread into Ituri province as a vaccination campaign in neighboring North Kivu province continues in the country’s northeast. The ministry is reporting 57 cases of hemorrhagic fever, 30 of them confirmed as Ebola and 27 listed as probable. Of 41 reported deaths, 14 have been…
UNB: President Abdul Hamid yesterday expressed his profound shock and sorrow at the death of opposition chief whip Tajul Islam, a lawmaker from Kurigram -2constituency. The President conveyed his profound sympathy to the bereaved family members and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul. Tajul Islam Chowdhury, Chief Whip of the opposition in parliament…
Reuters: Singapore police said on Tuesday an aircraft linked to an investigation into a multi-billion scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB was in the city-state but Malaysia had not made a formal request for its return. Singapore authorities had not previously confirmed that the $35-million private jet, which Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said…
TaiwanReuters: People in South Korea and Taiwan unveiled monuments and staged protests on Tuesday to mark Japan’s wartime use of “comfort women”, a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels. In South Korea, a new monument was unveiled as part of its first “Memorial Day for Japanese Forces’ Comfort Women…