Saima Wazed nominated to lead WHO South-East Asia region
An Indonesian court on Monday began a trial against a handful of police officers and football match organizers on charges of criminal negligence for their roles in the world’s deadliest football stadium stampede in Java last October. The disaster, which killed 135 people, occurred after a match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, raising […]
Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged on Wednesday that his country’s past was marked by a series of “gross human rights violations”, including bloodshed and arrests in 1965 and 1966. Some historians and activists have estimated that at least 500,000 people died in the violence, which began in late 1965 after a failed communist coup by […]
Southeast Asia’s tourist economies are set to be major beneficiaries of China’s easing of travel restrictions as it steers clear of pre-entry COVID-19 tests that Europe, Japan and the United States have imposed on Chinese visitors . Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 billion people, the world’s second-biggest economy is opening its borders […]
Singapore’s economy is set to grow 3.8% in 2022, preliminary data showed on Tuesday, outpacing government expectations but slower than last year. The government’s official forecast for growth in 2022 was 3.5%, down from 7.6% in 2021. The gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.2% in October-December on a year-on-year basis, the Ministry of Trade […]
The main gateway to the Philippines remained on reduced operations on Monday after a New Year’s power outage that jolted its air traffic control, leaving officials scrambling to resume full service after more than 300 flights were disrupted. Cesar Cheong, general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority, said the aging Ninoy Aquino International Airport […]
‘Desperate’ Rahman said that not all Rohingyas thrown into the sea do so from Bangladesh. “Their situation in Myanmar is very bad,” he said, adding that despite talking about a repatriation program for five years, the refugees are losing hope of going home. Most Rohingyas in Myanmar are considered illegal immigrants from South Asia and […]
Two people were killed and more than 50 missing after a landslide hit a camping site in Malaysia early Friday, officials said. The landslide occurred at around 3am (1900 GMT) on the side of a road near an organic farm with camping facilities in Selangor state, on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, the […]
A police officer told Metro TV that police were investigating the source of the explosion in Bandung city. The source of the explosion was not immediately clear. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has been the victim of attacks by Islamic extremists, sometimes targeting police. In 2019, Indonesia enacted a tough new anti-terrorism law […]
“The large population is also a large market. Therefore, investing in Bangladesh will create more opportunities for investors to transport their goods to South Asia, South East Asia and also to the West as they use our sea routes, rail routes and aviation routes. can do. Hasina said that Bangladesh’s geographical location ensures a market […]