Washington D.C. [USA] : The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved, with a 2/3 majority, a resolution introduced by Ukraine asking Russia to cease restriction of international vessels in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
“The result of the vote is as follows: in favour –...
SEOUL : When Ashley Park started her marketing job at a Seoul drugmaker she had a near-perfect college record, flawless English, and got on well with her colleagues — none of which mattered to her employer once she fell pregnant. Nine months after she joined, Park said, “They said to...
New Delhi :Sajjan Kumar, a senior leader of India’s main opposition party the Indian National Congress (INC) was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday by the Delhi High Court for inciting mob violence and rioting targeting members of the Sikh community in 1984 following the assassination...
Tokyo : Japanese police were investigating Monday the cause of a powerful blast that ripped through a restaurant in the country’s north overnight, injuring 42 people and damaging surrounding buildings. The explosion in the city of Sapporo on Sunday night started fires and caused the partial...
DOHA : UN chief Antonio Guterres called Sunday for a “credible” probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. “It is absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to have the punishment of those that were...
New Delhi : Eleven people have died after eating rice that had likely been contaminated with a toxic substance at a Hindu temple ceremony, a health official said Saturday. Another 29 people were critically ill and undergoing emergency treatment across various hospitals in Mysore, a city in the...
Colombo : Sri Lanka’s challenged Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned from his premiership on Saturday, paving way for a new government to be established under President Maithripala Sirisena.
Rajapaksa signed his resignation letter, surrounded by his party members at his official...
WASHINGTON : Job creation slowed unexpectedly in the United States last month as the service sector added fewer workers, but the unemployment rate held steady at a 49-year low, the government reported Friday.
Hiring fell to 155,000 net new positions in November while the gain in October was revised...
BANGKOK : Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.
China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long...
SEOUL : South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) were currently in talks to set schedule for a joint road inspection to modernize and connect roads across the inter-Korean border, Seoul’s unification ministry said on Wednesday.
Baik Tae-hyun, the unification...
