Cobra Gold drills begin in Rayong
2023-02-28
Cobra Gold 2023, the largest international military exercise in mainland Asia, officially kicked off yesterday in Rayong and will run until March 10.Continue Reading
Toyah Cordingley: Australia flies man from India over beach murder
2023-02-28
Rajwinder Singh is accused of murdering Toyah Cordingley, found dead in Queensland in 2018.Continue Reading
Relentless censor Beijing mocks US TikTok crackdown
2023-02-28
China, which blocks all western social media on the mainland, mocked the United States government for trying to stop young people from using TikTok, the most downloaded app during the pandemic. The White House issued a 30-days notice to government organizations on Monday to make sure that TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, is removed from all federal […]Continue Reading
UK dogs to sniff out pangolin smugglers in Thailand
2023-02-28
LONDON: Two Labrador dogs, which have been trained by British police, are to be flown to Thailand to help crack down on the smuggling of critically endangered pangolins, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
India warns of heatwaves, expects surge in heat-related illnesses
2023-02-28
NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday (Feb 28) warned of an impending heatwave in many parts of the country over the next couple of months, urging states to be well prepared to manage any surge in “heat-related illnesses”. Weather office India Meteorological Department (IMD) said there was an “enhanced probability” ofContinue Reading
Japan inn apologises after hot spring bathwater found to have bacteria 3,700 times over standard limit
2023-02-28
TOKYO: The head of an upscale Japanese inn apologised on Tuesday (Feb 28) for only changing the water in its hot-spring bath every six months, allowing bacteria to breed 3,700 times over the standard limit. Local ordinances stipulate a weekly replacement of the water in which guests traditionally soak nakedContinue Reading
New registrations for welfare cards open
2023-02-28
The cabinet has approved a new round of registrations for state welfare cards with 14.6 million low-income earners meeting the criteria and eligible for benefits.Continue Reading
Elderly Japan on brink of a demographic crisis
2023-02-28
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida used a policy speech at the opening of the 2023 session of Japan’s parliament, the National Diet, to declare that Japan was “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions” due to the country’s population crisis. The country’s median age is 49 — the second highest in the […]Continue Reading
Belarus President Lukashenko to arrive in Beijing for talks with Xi
2023-02-28
Xi has spoken to Putin several times since the war began, but has not done so with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Lukashenko is a close ally of Putin and has backed Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Belarus shares a border with both Ukraine and Russia, but is financially and politicallyContinue Reading
Sinking Philippine tanker sparks diesel spill
2023-02-28
MANILA: A Philippine fuel tanker partially sank in the country’s waters on Tuesday (Feb 28), authorities said, as they tried to contain a diesel spill stretching several kilometres. The Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil from Bataan province, near the capital Manila, to the central provinceContinue Reading