Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
World News
Hong Kong’s Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei. File | Photo Credit: AP Hong Kong’s leader defended the rules for upcoming local elections as open and fair on October 31 after an electoral overhaul effectively barred the city’s remaining pro-democracy activists from joining the race. The city’s largest pro-democracy party, the Democratic Party, will be absent…
The young Chinese man looked lost and exhausted when Border Patrol agents left him at a transit station. Deng Guangsen, 28, had spent the last two months traveling to San Diego from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, through seven countries on plane, bus and foot, including traversing Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungle. “I feel…
Read More “Chinese migrants take a perilous path to the U.S. amid rising economic crisis” »
Thailand is targeting about 28 million arrivals this year (Representational) Bangkok: Thailand will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said on Tuesday, in a bid to draw in more tourists as the high season approaches. Thailand in September scrapped visa requirements for Chinese…
Read More “Thailand To Waive Visa Requirements For Indians To Draw More Tourists” »
Some 60,000 Afghans have returned between September 23 to October 22 from Pakistan Karachi: As the clock ticked down to the November 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us…
Read More “Afghans Return To Taliban Rule As Pakistan Moves To Expel 1 Million Migrants” »
Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city, a district of Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province | Photo Credit: Zahid Hussain Disaster events are not only becoming more frequent and severe but their impact is also expected to worsen. The year 2023 brought an end to the warmest decade on record, marked by unprecedented extreme…
Read More “Losses from extreme events over 31 years were $3.8 trillion | Data” »
Rodney Hodgins has spastic cerebral palsy and requires a motorised wheelchair. New Delhi: A differently-abled man, who cannot walk, was forced to drag himself off a plane in Las Vegas when Air Canada could not provide him with a wheelchair. Rodney Hodgins has spastic cerebral palsy and requires a motorised wheelchair. The 49-year-old and his…
Read More “Disabled Man Not Given Wheelchair By Airlines, Drags Himself Off Plane” »
A man reads a newspaper with an obituary of late former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on a bulletin board in Beijing, China October 28, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters China will cremate the remains of former Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday, when flags will fly at half mast across the country in mourning for an…
Read More “China to cremate ‘outstanding’ leader Li Keqiang on Thursday” »
Elon Musk bought the microblogging site for $44 billion in 2022. Billionaire Elon Musk’s platform X, which was formerly known as Twitter, is now valued at less than half of what he purchased it for, a year ago. Mr Musk has earlier acknowledged that he had overpaid for Twitter, which he bought for $44 billion,…
New Delhi: Israel’s United Nations ambassador displayed a yellow star on his chest Monday as he addressed the Security Council, provocatively pledging to wear the badge until members of the body condemn Hamas “atrocities.” “Some of you have learned nothing in the past 80 years. Some of you have forgotten why this body was established,”…
Photo for representational purpose | Photo Credit: Getty Images A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, U.S.A, his body discovered in a bathroom next to words scrawled on the wall, “I am not a killer,” authorities said Monday. Diego Barajas…
