Police officers stand outside a building having BBC offices, where income tax officials are conducting a search, in New Delhi, India, Feb 14, 2023. (PHOTO / REUTERS) NEW DELHI – Indian tax officers searched the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for a second day on Wednesday, two sources said, as controversy swirled over […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) releases a commemorative stamp during the inauguration of the Aero India 2023 at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, on Feb 13, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) BENGALURU – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set out ambitions to more than triple annual defense exports to $5 billion over […]
A Syrian boy, who lost his family and was also wounded as a result of the deadly earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria, carries a book as he stands amid the rubble of his family home in the town of Jindayris, in Syria's Aleppo province on Feb 11, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ANTAKYA, Türkiye/JANDARIS, Syria – Rescuers […]
A man walks by a collapsed building, in Adiyaman, Feb 10, 2023, days after a devastating earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria. (PHOTO / AP) ANTAKYA, Türkiye/JANDARIS, Syria – Rescuers in Türkiye pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the region's deadliest quake in […]
A man pulls out a young girl from the debris of collapsed buildings in Hatay, southern Türkiye, Feb 9, 2023. Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Türkiye on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 20,000. (PHOTO / AP) ANTAKYA, […]
Firefighters carry a dead body from a destroyed building, in Gaziantep, southeastern Türkiye, Feb 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Türkiye – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited southern Türkiye on Wednesday to see first-hand the destruction wrought by a massive earthquake as anger grew among local people over what they said was a slow government response […]
In this picture taken on Oct 19, 2022, a crow flies near the Gaumukh (background right), meaning "cow mouth" in Hindi, at Gangotri glacier, believed to be the source of the Ganges River, at Gangotri National Park. (PHOTO / AFP) Melting mountain glaciers pose a growing flood risk to some 15 million people around the […]
In this Nov 24, 2016 photo, Vietnamese officials check seized ivory, which was packed with wax around when it is sealed inside emptied-out timber in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (PHOTO / AP) HANOI – Vietnamese authorities have over the past week seized more than 600 kilograms of ivory smuggled from Africa, the government said […]
Residents and rescuers search for victims and survivors following an earthquake in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on the border with Türkiye, on Feb 6, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) HATAY, Türkiye/DAMASCUS – The screams of people still trapped in the rubble filled the night early on Tuesday and relatives wept […]
In this photo taken on Feb 1, 2023, residents wade through a flooded street after torrential rain at the suburb of Langholm in Auckland. (PHOTO / AFP) WELLINGTON — The worst of the forecast rain moved away from New Zealand's flood-ravaged biggest city on Wednesday after inflicting what the finance minister described as probably the […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins sits in a military plane on Jan 28, 2023 bound for Auckland to assess rain and flooding damage. Torrential rain and flooding continue to cause widespread disruption across New Zealand's largest city. (PHOTO / AP) WELLINGTON — Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to receive further heavy rain in the coming […]
A phone box with numbers for suicide prevention support as well as a bible and messages of support, at Tojinbo cliffs in Japan. (CARL COURT / GETTY IMAGES) TOKYO — Japan's suicide rate increased from the previous year in 2022 owing to the increased rate among males for the first time in 13 years, the […]
China will continue to be an engine of global growth and promoter of world peace Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a New Year speech to ring in 2023 on, Dec 31, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) "May the world enjoy peace and people of all countries live in happiness," President Xi Jinping said in his 2023 […]
SEOUL – South Korea and the United States will hold tabletop exercises next month involving the American extended deterrence effort, South Korea's defense minister said on Wednesday. Officials in both capitals said they were in talks to improve joint nuclear planning and implementation, boost information sharing and launch tabletop exercises, but the timing had not […]
Because of the widespread increase in human activities in heretofore untouched places including natural environs and forests, epidemics caused by unknown viruses and bacteria have become more frequent in recent times. While swine flu broke out in North America in 2009, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (also caused by a coronavirus) was diagnosed in 2012 and […]
TALLINN, EE, Jan 9, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Elcogen, the European manufacturer of clean energy technology that delivers affordable green hydrogen and emission-free electricity, is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering (“KSOE”), a member of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group (“HHI Group”), […]
The global resurgence of COVID-19 has prompted media outlets in some Western countries, including the United States, to launch yet another campaign to tarnish China. A quick flashback of the ravages of the pandemic will show how some US politicians and media outlets' allegations — that the virus had spread across the world at an […]
Until the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity was making great strides in extending lives and increasing economic prosperity. It is critical that we return to that trajectory as the global economy recovers. New research, which examines progress at a granular level, can help us get there. Typically, human progress is assessed at a country level. On average, […]
A medical worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a senior resident in Hufeng village of Wenchang, South China's Hainan province, Dec 22, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) After China made major adjustments to its prevention and control policy, overseas reports about that have been full of schadenfreude, employing such terms as "failure" or "crisis" […]
People wearing protective masks enjoy a pedestrian bridge during the dusk amid of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia, Mar 15, 2022. (WILLY KURNIAWAN / REUTERS) JAKARTA — Indonesia on Friday removed all remaining measures to control the spread of COVID-19 effective immediately, since most of the country's population already has antibodies against […]
SINGAPORE, Dec 28, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Thoughtful Media Group Inc (“Thoughtful Media” or “TMG”), the Thailand-based social commerce-focused, premium digital advertising network of Society Pass Incorporated (“SoPa”) (Nasdaq: SOPA), Southeast Asia’s (SEA) next generation, data-driven, loyalty, fintech and e-commerce ecosystem, today announces the acquisition of More Media, a leading Indonesia-based creative […]
Xi’s Saudi trip underlines growing interest in China’s global leadership, discontent with US President Xi Jinping’s recent state visit to Saudi Arabia was much more than seeking a greater Middle East role. It was an “epoch-making” chapter in a rapidly unfolding improving world order. The reasons are tenfold. First, in stark contrast to United States […]
TOKYO, Dec 22, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503), Eisai Co., Ltd. (TSE: 4523), Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. (TSE: 4502/ NYSE:TAK) today announced that the four companies have agreed the collaboration to reduce environmental burden in the field of pharmaceutical packaging. Based […]
Residents are rescued by a boat from the flood relief center as the flood water rise and partially submerged the building at Dungun, Terengganu, Malaysia Dec 21, 2022. More than 70,000 were forced into relief centers, with numbers rising in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang, according to local media. (STRINGER / REUTERS) KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian […]
Editor's note: During the past decade, China has made historic progress in transportation development, with an improved transport network, strengthened transport service capacity and deepened international cooperation, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. A bullet train runs along the Harbin-Dalian High-Speed railway. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) I was 18 when I first traveled […]
Wounded children receive medical treatment at a hospital in Yemen's third city of Taez, after reported shelling on residential areas by Huthi rebels, on Oct 31, 2022. (AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP) More than 11,000 children have been killed or wounded in the conflict in Yemen since 2015, the UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said on […]
SINGAPORE, Dec 6, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NusaTrip, the Indonesia-based online travel agent (OTA) and travel platform of Society Pass Incorporated (“SoPa”) (Nasdaq: SOPA), Southeast Asia’s (SEA) leading data-driven loyalty, fintech and e-commerce ecosystem, today announces the expansion of NusaTrip’s +500 global airline partners network by adding JetStar Airways, VietJet Air, NokAir, […]
An elderly man receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Oct 14, 2022. (PHOTO / VCG) "We are much closer to being able to say that the emergency phase of the pandemic is over — but we're not there yet." That's the core message the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran, reportedly shows a motorcycle on fire in the capital Tehran, on Oct 8, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) TEHRAN – Iran's National Security Council announced on Saturday that more than 200 people have lost their lives in recent "riots" in the country. "Investigations by the authorities show that as […]
The national 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) unveiled by the central government in 2021 designated Hong Kong as a future hub for art and cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world. Having a new strategic vision to pursue, the financial city has started to take up another entirely different role in the cultural […]