Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to address jubilant crowds later on Saturday, as the country celebrates the anniversary of the 1979 revolution. In his speech he is to announce a great achievement of the national nuclear program, he promised the rally, according the to a state TV report. Tens of thousands of Iranians are taking […]
BANGKOK, 9 February 2012 (IRIN) – The health of millions of indigenous people across Asia is at risk, experts say, as lack of recognition of their legal status hinders data collection, making their medical problems invisible in most national health surveys. Indigenous peoples – defined by the UN as people with ancestral ties to a […]
The trial against Orjan Robert Elevsson from Sweden and his Thai girlfriend Narawadee Phothijam, who are accused of smuggling six kilograms of methamphetamine in to Indonesia started last Thursday and continue today in the South Jakarta Court. The 38-year-old Swede and 22 year-old Thai were arrested in August at Soekarno-Hatto International Airport. Read more: scandasia.com
Sydney – An Australian man whose house was repossessed by the Victorian state government and then sold at auction for 1,000 Australian dollars (1,007 US dollars) told a Melbourne court Thursday that it was worth 630,000 Australian dollars. Read more: Monsters and Critics
Sydney – Australia’s Qantas Airways said Wednesday it had grounded an A380 after minor cracks were found on the wings during a routine inspection. It expects the superjumbo to be back in service within a week and said the 36 hairline cracks did not compromised air safety. Read more: In Monsters and Critics
In the central Philippines, efforts to rescue victims from Monday’s 6.7-magnitude earthquake in western provinces are being hampered by impassable roads and bridges. There are at least 15 confirmed dead. The worst-hit area is the island province of Negros where at least one landslide in a mountainside town near the epicenter is believed to have […]
Journalists from Danish public broadcaster DR have been allegedly blacklisted by India. The news came out on February 1 after award-winning investigative journalist Tom Heinemann was denied a visa by the Indian Embassy in Copenhagen. The immediate trigger was said to be the broadcast of a documentary series “Blood, sweat and T-shirts”, which shows the […]
An entire Australian town has been ordered to evacuate to higher ground as rising floodwaters race toward record heights. Officials say the 3,800 residents of St. George in Queensland state have been ordered to abandon their homes before the only remaining exit road is washed out. Full story: VOANews.com VOA News
