BEIJING: Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev will hold security consultation services and meetings throughout a two-day visit to China and taiwan starting Sunday (Sep 18), China’s international ministry said. Patrushev may attend the 17th round of China’s Russia strategic safety consultations and the seventh meeting of the China-Russia lawContinue Reading
KABUL: The United Nations advised the Taliban on Sunday (Sep 18) to reopen high schools for girls throughout Afghanistan, condemning the particular ban that started exactly a year ago since “tragic and shameful”. Weeks after the Taliban seized power in August last year, the hardline Islamists reopened higher schools forContinue Reading
TAIPEI: A 6. 8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely filled southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday (Sep 18), the island’s weather bureau mentioned, with some initial reports of damage including a derailed teach carriage, and sparking a tsunami caution. The weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitung county,Continue Reading
TAIPEI: The 6. 8 degree earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan upon Sunday (Sep 18), the island’s weather bureau said, derailing train carriages plus causing a comfort store to fall. The elements bureau said the epicentre was in Taitung county, and adopted a 6. 4 magnitudeContinue Reading
BEIJING: Twenty-seven people died en route to a COVID-19 quarantine facility when their bus crashed in southwest China on Sunday (Sep 18), local authorities said, in the country’s deadliest road accident this year. The crash took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying 47 peopleContinue Reading
BEIJING: A tour bus crash killed 27 people and hurt a further 20 once the vehicle rolled more than on a highway within southwest China’s mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Weekend (Sep 18). The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning inContinue Reading
FUKUOKA: Thousands of people were in shelters in southwestern Japan on Weekend (Sep 18) since powerful Typhoon Nanmadol churned towards the region, prompting authorities to urge nearly three or more million residents in order to evacuate. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) offers issued a rare “special warning” for the KagoshimaContinue Reading
MINAMATA: Thousands of people required refuge in shelters in southwestern Japan on Weekend (Sep 18) since powerful Typhoon Nanmadol bore down on Japan’s southernmost main isle of Kyushu. Authorities have got urged more than four million residents to evacuate. The particular Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a rare “specialContinue Reading
The particular youth vote is actually a political game changer, with the lowering from the voting age along with a seeming desire for non-racial politics among elements at play. But analysts tell the programme Insight the issue is not so clear-cut.Continue Reading
TAIPEI: A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Taiwan on Saturday (Sep 17), the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit just after 9.30pm about 50km north of the city of Taitung at a depth of about 10km, the USGS said. The quake could be felt across Taiwan, accordingContinue Reading