NEW DELHI, 20 Sept 2019: Public transport was disrupted in the Indian capital and its adjoining areas yesterday as trucks, cabs, and auto-rickshaws stayed off the road in a strike …
SAO PAOLO, 19 Sept 2019: Brazil is working against the clock to stop the spread of the mosquitoes that carry dengue, as the number of cases of the disease nears …
BANGKOK, 19 Sept 2019: Thailand has culled more than 200 pigs this week in the first such action amid heightened fears of a potential outbreak of African swine fever. Thailand …
NEW DELHI, 18 Sep 2019: The government of India today announced a blanket ban on electronic-cigarettes – citing health risks to users, especially children and young adults. The ban on …
MANILA, 18 Sept 2019: Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has renewed an offer of big bounties for hundreds of convicted murderers and rapists set free in a corrections bureau blunder, and …
RIYADH. 18 Sept 2019: Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware – mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks – has proved no match …
JAKARTA, 17 Sept 2019: Indonesian environmental activists have criticised the government for its apparent lack of seriousness in tackling forest fires, resulting in the bad haze, and affecting public safety. …
PALANGKA RAYA, 15 Sept 2019: Schools in two cities in the Indonesian part of Borneo island will be closed for a week after smoke from forest fires caused air quality …
RIYADH, 14 Sept 2019: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group today attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including the world’s biggest petroleum processing facility, in a strike …
JAKARTA, 14 Sept 2019: Indonesia’s environment minister yesterday said some forest fires in its territory had started on land used by subsidiaries of Malaysian companies, as the neighbours traded blame …
