State counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi asks court to dismiss genocide case against Myanmar
THE HAGUE, Dec 13, 2019, Myanmar Times. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has asked the…
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Bhutan to reduce hydrofluorocarbons by 80 percent by 2045
THIMPHU, Dec 12, 2019, Kuensel. Should the Fifth Amendment to the Montreal Protocol be implemented…
Two Vietnamese sailors confirmed dead in South Korea boat sinking
HANOI, Dec 12, 2019, Vn Express. Police in South Korea confirmed on Wednesday two bodies…
$5.2B losses from forest, land fires in Indonesia: World Bank
JAKARTA, Dec 12, 2019, ANTARA. Land and forest fires that affected several parts of Indonesia…
Mexican drug cartels eyeing ‘Thai market’: Police
HAWAII, Dec 12, 2019, Bangkok Post. Mexican drug syndicates are trafficking methamphetamine into Thailand and…
Malaysia’s PM arrives in Doha for four-day official visit to Qatar
DOHA, Dec 12, 2019, Bernama. Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad arrived here yesterday to…
[Analytics] What a tougher EU means for Asia
The European Union’s newly installed leadership promises a more assertive and commanding role in global…
UEHRD parries Gambia’s allegations of misdeeds in Myanmar’s Rakhine
NAY PYI TAW, Dec 12, 2019, Myanmar Times. The Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement…
Hong Kong singles more open to dating foreigners than Singaporeans and Malaysians, but lag behind Thais
HONG KONG, Dec 12, 2019, SCMP. Hong Kong singles are more open to dating foreigners…
NZ White Island eruption: The dead, the missing and the injured
WELLINGTON, Dec 12, 2019, NZ Herald. Eight people confirmed dead, autopsies and formal identification continues…
At least four dead as protesting lawyers attack Institute of Cardiology in Pakistan
LAHORE, Dec 11, 2019, Pakistan Today. At least four patients, including a woman, lost their…
Aung San Suu Kyi says genocide case brought against Myanmar ‘misleading’
THE HAGUE, Dec 11, 2019, Reuters. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the case…