Thousands of couples in Hong Kong, mainland China and Southeast Asia flocked to tie the knot on Wednesday, seeking good fortune for marriages begun on the century’s last repeating date. Authorities in Hong Kong and Singapore respectively said 696 and 540 couples were scheduled to attend marriage registries, continuing a trend which has seen couples […]
North Korea has successfully launched a long range rocket. The launch occurred at 9:51 a.m. local time according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, two days after the country said it might delay the launch till as late as December 29 to repair a “technical deficiency” in the rocket. “The rocket stages fell on areas […]
THE HAGUE. The International Court of Justice, ICJ, announced today the schedule for the public hearings in the case concerning the request for interpretation of the 1962 ruling in the case over the Preah Vihear Temple. The first round of oral argument is programmed for Monday 15 April, 2013, for Cambodia and Wednesday 17 April […]
At least 50 people were injured, mostly from burns, when police broke up a demonstration at a Chinese-run copper mine in northwestern Myanmar yesterday. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at a hospital in the Sagaing division to visit protesters who were hurt at their camp outside the Latpadantaung copper mine near Monywa township, […]
A historic Buddhist site in Afghanistan appears likely to be spared demolition to make way for a copper mine after the Thai Foreign Ministry issued a statement yesterday saying the Afghan government “would do whatever possible” to conserve the site and preserve artefacts obtained from it. Citing confirmation by officials at the Thai Embassy in […]
SEOUL, Nov 24 (Yonhap) – The music video of “Gangnam Style” by South Korean singer-rapper Psy is soon expected to become the most-viewed video on YouTube, as the number of views topped 800 million as of Saturday. The music video is already ranked second on YouTube’s all-time most-viewed videos, according to the Web site. MCOT
Buddhist organisations on Tuesday submitted a plea to the UN and Unesco to help save the ancient Buddhist remains at Afghanistan’s Mes Aynak, where mining for cooper is scheduled to begin next month. Some 200 protesters submitted the plea to the UN via a representative before moving to the Unesco headquarters on Sukhumvit Road. Read […]
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook northern Myanmar Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring more than 20 in Shwebo district, officials said. The quake that rattled buildings as far away as Bangkok was centred about 117 kilometres north of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second most-populous city, and about 72 kilometres north of Shwebo township, according to US […]
