New Zealand yesterday legalised same-sex marriage, with a surge in marriage applications, according to New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs. New Zealand is now the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to legalise same-sex marriage, and the fourteenth country to do so worldwide. After passing a bill in April of this year, the New Zealand […]
The Indian Navy has said that two explosions yesterday on INS Sindhurakshak, a Russian-built Kilo-class submarine, have trapped up to eighteen of its sailors. Navy officials have warned the families of trapped sailors to “prepare for the worst”. The stricken vessel sank in its berth in Mumbai with only a small portion still visible on […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, has for the first time released figures on how much radioactive waste the facility has emitted, since being damaged by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011. Approximately 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of nuclear energy has leaked since the […]
Pakistani officials placed the capital, Islamabad, on red alert after they received information of possible terrorist attacks on Pakistan Air Force headquarters. Action was taken quickly, with Air Force and Navy helicopters seen above Islamabad shortly after the officials were notified. “Current information suggests that Al-Qaeda and affiliated organisations continue to plan terrorist attacks both […]
There has been an explosion at Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3, with a man in a wheelchair apparently detonating a device, BBC reported. Photos posted on China’s Weibo microblogging site showed a dark-haired man waving a white package in the air before the blast. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
BANGKOK, 20 June 2013 (NNT) – Anti-narcotic police have revealed that most illegal drugs seized from smugglers belong to an ethnic group in Myanmar living near northern Thai border. Chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau Pol Lt Gen Chaiwat Chotima disclosed that the majority of illegal drugs smuggled into Thailand were transported by a group […]
SA KAEO, June 6 – Three Thai nationals were arrested in Cambodia near this border town for allegedly involved with a so-called Black Money fraud scam and trading counterfeit banknotes. Pol Lt Col Benjapol Rodsawat, deputy immigration police chief of Sa Kaeo province, said Cambodian immigration officials at Poi Pet reported that the arrest by […]
Religious clashes in Myanmar, which flared up again last week, have spilled over to Malaysia, which has one of the biggest Rohingya Muslim refugee communities in the region and a large Myanmar migrant worker population. Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief Amar Singh Ishar Singh said the riots in Myanmar have also caused a spate of […]
