Two women were killed and at least 22 left injured when a bomb exploded on Wednesday at a bank in Lashio northeastern Myanmar’s Shan state, a region torn by fighting between government forces and ethnic separatist armies. Speaking to RFA’s Myanmar Service, Lashio Youth Group member Tun Myint said that he and several others had […]
Wealthy North Koreans and high-ranking regime officials in Pyongyang are quickly exchanging Chinese yuan they have acquired into much-coveted U.S. dollars or euros, because the two Western currencies are giving them a bigger bang for their buck, sources inside the country said. U.S. dollars, euros, Japanese yen, and Chinese yuan have long lubricated the isolated […]
Eleven Thais and five Taiwanese were arrested during a raid by Malaysian and Thai police on a commercial building in Kuala Lumpur used as a base by an international gang of phone-scammers. The operation followed earlier arrests during raids by Cambodian and Thai police on several call centres in Cambodia used by the same gang. […]
Islamic State (IS) has chosen Mindanao island as a “strategic ground” for recruiting fighters after being routed in its Middle Eastern strongholds last year, the leader of the largest Muslim guerrilla force in the southern Philippines warned on Tuesday. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) lost 24 guerrillas in 2017 as it helped the Philippine […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A UAE-based company has unveiled what it calls the world’s first camel-based baby formula, an instant powder mix aimed mainly at infants allergic to cow’s milk, AFP reveals. The Emirates Industry for Camel Milk & Products, or “Camelicious”, on Monday, February 19 unveiled the product at Gulfood 2018, an international food and beverage […]
Nurhayati bent to the dirt floor to gather peeled shallots that fell as she prepared lunch for her two children. The 37-year-old first wife in a polygamous marriage spends much of her time in her modest kitchen, cooking fritters to sell in her village in Cilebut, a regency of Indonesia’s West Java province. “I didn’t […]
Fire broke out Saturday evening in a temple compound in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, setting at least one building ablaze but sparing the central Jokhang cathedral, a major pilgrimage site, Tibetan sources said. The cause of the blaze, which began at about 6:40 p.m. local time and was later contained, is still unclear, and there are […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Rescuers discovered nine more bodies Sunday beneath the ruins of an Indian hotel, bringing the known death toll from an explosion which tore through a wedding party to 18, an official said. A gas cylinder exploded late Friday at the hotel in the city of Beawar, in the western state of Rajasthan, […]
