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BEIRUT , Lebanon (AFP) — Heavy air strikes throughout the night on the Islamic State group’s de facto Syria capital Raqa killed at least 13 civilians and five jihadists, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had no immediate word on whether the strikes were carried out by the Damascus regime, its ally Moscow or the US-led coalition battling IS. “Raqa has not been targeted by air raids of this […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – President Barack Obama of the United States of America will not apologize to Japan for the US bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obama is set to visit Japan this month for a Group of Seven meeting and part of his itinerary is a visit to Hiroshima. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines – Freed American prisoner, Kenneth Bae, related his experiences as a prisoner of North Korea for two years. Bae was sentenced with fifteen years of hard labor last 2013. He said that he was forced to work in a mine from eight in the morning to 6 in the evening and was also subjected to verbal abuse by North Korean officials. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The head of Chinese search giant Baidu has been summoned by the country’s authorities, reports said Tuesday, as the firm faced a barrage of criticism over the death of a student who used it to search for a cancer treatment. Wei Zexi, a 21-year-old college student, had already been diagnosed as having a terminal soft tissue disease when his family found an experimental immunotherapy treatment via a Baidu search. He spent […]
TOKYO , Japan (AFP) — Japan will lease military aircraft to the Philippines in another sign of deepening security ties between the two former foes to counter Beijing’s increasing regional influence. The agreement was made Monday afternoon during telephone talks between Japan’s Defence Minister Gen Nakatani and his Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin, the ministry said. Tensions in the South China Sea — through which one third of the world’s oil passes — have mounted in […]
KOLKOTA , India (AFP) — Four people were killed when the crude bombs they were making exploded in India’s West Bengal, where bitterly fought state elections are underway, a senior police official said Monday. Another six people were injured in the explosion on Sunday night in a village about 360 kilometres (220 miles) north of Kolkata, close to the eastern state’s border with Bangladesh. “Four people were killed and six others injured when the bombs […]
by Jalees ANDRABI TIKAMGARH , India (AFP) –As young boys plunge into a murky dam to escape the blistering afternoon sun, guards armed with guns stand vigil at one of the few remaining water bodies in a state hit hard by India’s crippling drought. Desperate farmers from a neighbouring state regularly attempt to steal water from the Barighat dam, forcing authorities in central Madhya Pradesh to protect it with armed guards to ensure supplies. India […]
SEOUL , SOUTH KOREA (AFP) –The head of a Korean subsidiary of a British consumer goods company was slapped and shouted down Monday as he apologised for his firm’s role in selling a humidifier disinfectant blamed for more than 100 deaths in South Korea. Shouting “too late” and “cannot forgive” in English, a handful of the victims’ relatives rushed the podium where Atar Safdar, the head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser Korea, was speaking at a […]
(Reuters) — Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met China’s State Councillor Yang Jiechi and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Saturday (April 30), in a visit aimed at improving the ties between the two largest economies in Asia. Kishida shook hands with China’s State Councillor Yang Jiechi before sat down for talks with delegations from both sides. “I would like to express my gratitude to the Chinese people for welcoming me and I am […]
Indonesian workers are calling for higher wages to improve the quality of their lives as worries mount over a slowing economy and competition from neighboring ASEAN countries. There are almost 110.8 million workers in Indonesia, according to the National Central Statistics Agency (BPS) data from August 2013, but almost half of are low-skilled laborers. According to the same figures, 46.93 percent have graduated from elementary school, 18.5 percent have graduated from junior highschool, and 6.83 […]
Japan’s foreign minister arrived in Bangkok on Sunday (May 1) for a two-day visit aiming to strengthen economic ties after Japanese investments in Thailand slumped last year amid political fears as well as stiff competition emerging from more nimble neighbours. Fumio Kishida and his Thai counterpart, Don Pramudwinai, met to discuss various issues on bilateral cooperation and regional matters. Kishida told a news conference after the meeting that Thailand remained an important stakeholder to […]
by Olivia Rondonuwu JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Ten Indonesian sailors held hostage by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants returned home Sunday after being freed in the southern Philippines, less than a week after the gunmen beheaded a Canadian captive. About five weeks after being abducted, the 10 tugboat crew turned up outside the house of the provincial governor on the remote Philippine island of Jolo. They flew back to Jakarta later the same day, arriving on […]
