BEIJING: China and Russia conducted a joint air patrol on Tuesday (Jun 6) over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea for a sixth time since 2019, coinciding with an increase in military manoeuvres and drills by the United States and its allies in the Asia-Pacific. The patrol is partContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Indonesia is “preparing very well” for the possibility of transboundary haze this year, said Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime and investment affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on Tuesday (Jun 6). “We have climate modification technology. This is (so) we can make early rain in order to prepare a pond, soContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Indonesia is preparing “very well” for the possibility of transboundary haze this year, said Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime and investment affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on Tuesday (Jun 6). “We have climate modification technology. This is (so) we can make early rain in order to prepare a pond, soContinue Reading
In his Facebook post, Freeman Gan WT said that he initially believed the individuals chasing him were real police officers as he observed flashing blue lights on their vehicle. He added that the encounter happened at about 5.40am in Kulai. He was taking a friend to Genting Highlands when heContinue Reading
Inter-city trains are likely to be only “slightly disrupted”, the SNCF railway company said, while the metro network in Paris will run a normal service. One-third of flights out of Paris-Orly airports have been cancelled, however. “I’m not sure there’ll be other protests afterwards,” Jean-Claude Mailly, the former leader ofContinue Reading
BEIJING: Chinese universities are drastically increasing tuition fees this year, with some making their first rises in two decades, hurt by a reduced national budget for tertiary education and tight local government finances. The higher fees come amid a financial crunch among local governments after three years of disruptive COVID-19Continue Reading
JAKARTA: Indonesia on Monday (Jun 5) launched a multilateral naval exercise in its waters, alongside navies from countries including the United States, Britain, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, amid simmering tensions in the Asia-Pacific region. Indonesia’s navy said in a statement the routine Komodo drills were a “non-war” exerciseContinue Reading
Kirby said if China wanted to deliver the message that the US was not welcome in the area or that it wanted American aircraft and vessels to stop flying and sailing in support of international law, that would not succeed. “It’s not gonna happen,” Kirby said. US SEEKS “PREDICTABLE RELATIONSHIP”Continue Reading
So far only 45 bodies have been identified, and 33 have been handed over to relatives, said Mayur Sooryavanshi, an administrator who was overseeing the identification process at the hospital in the capital of Odisha state, about 200km south of the site of the train crash in Balasore. Upendra RamContinue Reading
India’s worst crash was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train plunged into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people. WHAT IS INDIA’S SAFETY RECORD India has launched a US$30 billion railway infrastructure modernisation in a bid to boost the economy and connectivity, and VaishnawContinue Reading