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Indian farmers to step up protests after eight killed in clashes
Farmers in India vowed on Monday (Oct 4) to intensify their months-long protest against laws aimed at liberalising agriculture as tension flared a day after eight people were killed in clashes between growers and ruling party supporters.…
Pakistan opposition urges PM Imran Khan to remove ministers named in Pandora Papers
Pakistan's opposition on Monday (Oct 4) called on Prime Minister Imran Khan to order Cabinet ministers and aides named in leaked financial documents known as the Pandora Papers to resign from office and face investigation.
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Church claims attack by Hindu mob in India
Some 200 men armed with rods and sticks stormed a church in northern India during Sunday prayer service, police said, in the latest anti-Christian violence in the officially secular country.
At least five people were injured in the…
Endangered turtles found slaughtered in Malaysia
Eleven endangered turtles have been found slaughtered off the Malaysian part of Borneo island, with members of an indigenous, sea-dwelling community suspected of targeting them for food, officials said on Monday (Oct 4).
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Taiwan demands China stops its ‘irresponsible provocation’; 52 jets enterTaiwan defence zone
Taiwan reported the largest ever incursion by China’s air force into its air defence zone on Monday (Oct 4) at 52 aircraft, saying the Taiwanese air force had to scramble for the fourth straight day to warn off the intruders, as tensions…
Thailand joins Asian nations in rush to buy Merck’s Covid-19 pill
Thailand's government is in talks with US drugmaker Merck & Co to purchase 200,000 courses of the company's experimental antiviral pill for Covid-19 treatment, the latest Asian nation to scramble for supplies of the drug after lagging…
Thailand kicks off Covid-19 vaccinations for school students
Thailand rolled out Covid-19 vaccines to high school students for the first time on Monday (Oct 4), as it seeks to boost its immunisation rate ahead of a planned school reopening next month.
About 88 per cent of high school students aged…
Asean ministers disappointed at Myanmar junta’s peace commitment
South-east Asian countries on Monday (Oct 4) voiced disappointment about army-ruled Myanmar’s commitment to an agreed peace plan, with one foreign minister saying he was concerned about the junta leader attending a regional summit later…
USAID Funds Agricultural Projects in Cambodia
USAID Prey Lang Baitong has provided funds to NTFP-EP Cambodia to support a project of planting Talipot palm. The project aims to increase the area of forested areas and raise the level of income of the Cambodian family, as the villagers…
Organisations: Human rights violations in Sri Lanka threaten EU trade benefits
Pressure from Human Rights Watch on the European Union over the deteriorating human rights situation in Sri Lanka has prompted the government to pledge reforms in recent weeks, that is after the human rights organization called for the…