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Sighs and cries of anguish and joy were heard in the South Korean Red Cross office, where a computer lottery selected candidates for the upcoming family reunions this month. The lottery drawn on the Red Cross computer randomly selected 500 from nearly 130,000 names of South Koreans looking for family members in North Korea. About 66,000 of them are still alive, with most aged 70 or more. The process of choosing which families to participate […]
Lebanese education minister announces that Lebanon is to provide free school education for tens of thousands more children this year including Syrian refugees. Lebanon is to provide schooling for tens of thousands more children this year including Syrian refugees, the education ministry said on Monday (September 21), as the country tries to cope with the effects of the war next door. Funding from international donors, UN refugee agency UNHCR and children’s fund UNICEF could see […]
(Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping toured the headquarters of Microsoft on Wednesday (September 23) where he met with the company’s founder Bill Gates as well as tech leaders including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apple Inc’s Tim Cook and other top tech executives. At the meeting Xi told assembled industry leaders that China shared a vision of a secure and open cyberspace, seeking to allay concerns over accusations of hacking by China […]
(Reuters) — At least 220 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a crush at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, where some two million people are performing the annual haj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia’s civil defense authority said. At least 450 others were injured in the crush, which took place on Street 204 of the camp city at Mina, a few kilometers east of Mecca, where pilgrims stay for several days during the […]
Seeking to warm bilateral ties and project a sunny climate for U.S. business, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Wednesday (September 23) to cut restrictions on foreign investment, while his chief Internet regulator appeared to lay the groundwork for a basic agreement later this week on cyber warfare. At Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, just outside of Seattle, China’s top Internet regulator told U.S. tech executives that both countries must work together on cyber security […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 23) – Food and water shortage, bombings, and wrecked homes; these are just some of the problems that the citizens of Syria are facing right now. Since the war began in 2011, thousands of refugees had fled the land to search for a place that will provide them food and shelter. It is alarming that their number is increasing considering that many host countries are incapable of catering to their needs. From […]
(Reuters) Japan’s parliament voted into law on Saturday (September 19) a defence policy shift that could let troops fight overseas for the first time since 1945, a milestone in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to loosen the limits of the pacifist constitution on the military. Abe says the shift, the biggest change in Japan’s defence policy since the creation of its post-war military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges such as from a […]
A bomb concealed in a motorcycle parked outside a temple in Thailand’s southernmost province killed two people and wounded 14 on Thursday (September 17) in attacks by suspected ethnic Malay separatists, police said. The bomb was one of five that went off in the late evening in a district of Narathiwat, one of three Muslim dominated provinces where shadowy insurgents are waging a low-level rebellion against the Thai state. Soldiers were among the dead and […]
(Reuters) — The Syrian refugee, tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman as he tried to flee from police on the Hungarian-Serbian border, arrived in Barcelona on Wednesday (September 16) before jumping on yet another train to Madrid, where he has been hired by Spain’s Official School for Football and Indoor Football Coaches (CENAFE). Video footage of Osama Abdul Mohsen being tripped by cameraman Petra Laszlo as he ran through the fields with his son Zaid, aged […]
(Reuters) — Coast Guard officials allied to Libya’s self-declared government in Tripoli said on Wednesday (September 16) they captured a Russian-flagged oil tanker and their Russian crew trying to smuggle oil from the port of Zawara. Coast guard official Tawfiq Mohammed said that the tanker was captured when it tried to smuggle oil out of the country “We identified the location of the tanker which was about 15 miles outside of Zawara. It’s a Russian […]
(Reuters) — Heavy rain showers on Tuesday (September 15) gave Singapore residents hope that the choking haze shrouding the city state will improve. Indonesia has ordered a crackdown against those responsible for the fires lit to clear forested land which has created a choking smog that is spreading across neighbouring countries which is showing no sign of abating. In Singapore, the air quality index has fluctuated above 100 PSI (Pollutant Standards Index), levels considered “unhealthy”, […]
(Reuters) — Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted on Tuesday (September 15), sending volcanic ash three kilometers into the air. Footage on local television network, Metro TV, showed ash covering a residential area nearby. Activity of the volcano remains at “dangerous”, the highest alert level, spokesman of Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. BNPB said this was the biggest eruption since June. More than 2,500 people were evacuated at the time of the […]
