BEIJING — Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square became China’s greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution more than a decade earlier. Corruption among the elite was a key complaint, but the protesters were also calling for a […]
BEIJING (AP) — It has been three months since Chinese rock musician Li Zhi disappeared from public view. First, an upcoming tour was canceled and his social media accounts were taken down. Then his music was removed from all of China’s major streaming sites — as if his […]
VENICE, Italy — A towering, out-of-control cruise ship rammed into a dock and a tourist river boat on a busy Venice canal on Sunday morning, injuring four tourists and sparking new calls for placing restrictions on cruise ships in the famed but strained tourist city. The collision happened […]
New Delhi, Jun 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a condolence letter to action director Veeru Devgan’s family remembered the Hindi film industry veteran for his contribution to Indian cinema. Veeru Devgan, who was the popular action director behind films such as “Roti Kapda Aur Makaan” and “Mr Natwarlal” […]
Hyderabad, June 2: A girl intermediate student in Telangana, who committed suicide allegedly after results showed her as ‘failed’ in the annual exams, was declared pass following re-verification, but within hours the board reversed the decision, citing a “clerical error”. The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE), which […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Four were engineers who worked to maintain streets and protect wetlands. Three were right-of-way agents who reviewed property lines. The others included an account clerk, a technician, an administrative assistant and a special projects coordinator. In all, they had served the city of Virginia […]
SINGAPORE – China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that a war with the United States would be a disaster for the world while issuing a warning to Washington not to meddle in security disputes over Taiwan and the South China Sea. China has been incensed by […]
SINGAPORE – Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that the bloody crackdown on protesters around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 30 years ago was the “correct” decision, citing the country’s “stability” since then. Responding to a question at the Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore after a hardline speech […]
KATHMANDU/KOLKATA – Nine people have died on the Nepalese side of Mount Everest so far this year, the most during a climbing season on the peak since a deadly earthquake in 2015. This time however, climbers and guides are blaming a host of other factors for the spike […]
KOLKATA/KATHMANDU – Earlier this month Dipankar Ghosh, a 52-year-old Indian photographer, scaled the world’s fifth-highest peak, the snow-capped Mount Makalu. He didn’t make it back down alive. After being separated from the rest of his team in bad weather, he collapsed and died along with Narayan Singh, an […]
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