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(Reuters)– Thousands of protesters gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday (August 29) for a two-day rally to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak, bringing to the streets a political crisis over a multi-million-dollar payment made to an account under his name. The Malaysian leader has weathered weeks of attacks since it was reported that investigators probing the management of debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) had discovered the unexplained transfer of […]
AUGUST 29 (CCTV) — Torrential rain battered various parts of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Thursday and Friday, flooding roads and houses. The rainstorms hit the Longhuo Township of Longlin County with precipitation reaching above 191 millimeters on Thursday evening. Heavy rainfall is expected to sweep across the region over the weekend. The Guangxi Meteorological Administration issued a blue alert for rainstorms on Friday morning, with meteorological experts attributing the conditions to the […]
AUGUST 29 (CCTV) — Tainan City in southern Taiwan has seen 2,574 cases of dengue fever this summer, the highest concentration of dengue cases in Taiwan. The first confirmed case was on May 16. Four people, who were all over 70, have died, according to the city government. Tainan has seen 80 percent of the island’s cases of dengue, while Taipei had the highest number of people with dengue who had caught it elsewhere, authorities […]
AUGUST 28 (Reuters) — Troops from the United States and South Korea on Friday (August 28) held a live-fire exercise, as a part of their annual military drill “Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG)”. About 2,000 troops from both countries participated in the Friday’s drill while 97 tanks and armored vehicles, 120 artilleries, 45 helicopters as well as 42 fighter jets, were mobilized, South Korean defense ministry said. “Our military has full readiness and has strong capabilities […]
|AUGUST 28 (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called this week’s accord between the rival Koreas “a landmark occasion” paving the way for defused military tension and improved ties, but said it was the strength of its armed forces that made the deal possible, North’s state-run television KRT reported on Friday (August 28). KRT released several still photographs of Kim convening an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party […]
(Reuters) — An arrest warrant has been issued for an unnamed suspect in a bomb blast at a Bangkok pier that took place a day after Thailand’s worst ever-bombing killed 20 people at a popular shrine, Thai police said on Friday (August 28). Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said a court issued the warrant based on grainy video footage of a man in a blue shirt kicking a bag into the water near the pier […]
AUGUST 28 (Reuters) — U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice held talks with China’s top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, in Beijing on Friday (August 28), the first day of her two-day trip to the Chinese capital. The two sides shook hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse before sitting down to talks. Rice is set to discuss a “range of bilateral, regional and global issues” with Chinese officials during her trip, the White House said […]
(Reuters) — A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday (August 27) and officials said up to 200 might have died. A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there had around 400 people on board. Many appeared to have been trapped in the hold when it capsized. By late in the evening, the Libyan coast […]
AUGUST 27 (Reuters) — Australia will seek to broaden and deepen its security alliance with the United States in the decades ahead as the rise of China and other Asia-Pacific powers risks fueling instability in the region, Australia’s defense minister said on Thursday (August 27). Foreshadowing a strategic defense white paper due later this year, Kevin Andrews said world economic and military power was shifting to the Asia-Pacific. “But growth in the region will be […]
VIRGINIA, United States of America, August 27 (Eagle News) — During a live interview, two journalists were killed by a former reporter of the same media outfit as revenge for his termination due to bad behavior. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
AUGUST 27 (CCTV) — China has taken criminal compulsory measures against 11 officials and detained 12 suspects for criminal offenses over the warehouse blasts in north China’s port city Tianjin which killed 139 people and devastated the port area, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday. According to the Criminal Procedure Law, compulsory measures include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate is […]
Migrants traveling across Serbia continued to flow into the Hungarian border area on Wednesday (August 26) morning as daylight hit the border. Some braved the new barbed wire fence along the border in order to avoid police checks. Hungarian authorities have been rolling out a low, barbed-wire barrier along the border with Serbia, while construction crews race to complete a more substantial 3.5-metre-high fence. Critics point out that the vast majority of migrants who enter […]
