Lhasa : China has banned ultra-thin plastic bags in ecologically fragile southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region. In a circular Friday, the government ordered all prefectures and counties to replace these bags with the cloth ones. The move is mainly aimed at tackling pollution at tourist sites, Xinhua reported. The government has banned the manufacture, sale and [...]
Manila : At least 16 people were killed and 22 were missing as a powerful typhoon battered the northern and eastern Philippines, officials said Wednesday. Typhoon Conson made landfall late Tuesday in north-eastern Quezon province, bringing heavy rains and strong winds to Manila and several provinces in the main northern island of Luzon. Four people [...]
Beijing : Over 26 percent Chinese men face the problem of erectile dysfunction, a study has said. Researchers with the Chinese Medical Association say among men over 40, at least 40 percent experience male impotence, a sexual dysfunction characterised by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis, the China Daily reported [...]
Kathmandu :After Sri Lanka, where a minister is leading protests against alleged UN interference, the world body is now under fire in Nepal, where the prime minister has accused it of trying to derail the Himalayan republic’s fragile peace process. An unusually strong outburst came from Nepal’s caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who objected [...]
Beijing: Over 800 online gamblers were arrested across China while they were betting on the World Cup, the ministry of public security said Thursday. Among those arrested, 65 people were from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia, while the rest were from mainland China, China Daily reported citing a ministry statement. “After the [...]
Tokyo : Over a dozen monkeys used tree branches to catapult themselves over a five-metre-high electric fence to escape to freedom from a research centre in Japan. The trees were about three metres away from the high-voltage wire fence at Kyoto University’s primate research centre, but the monkeys leaped over the barrier easily, Courier Mail [...]
London : Forty-five percent of the victims of racial attacks in Britain are Indian, says a study which also claims that such violence is spreading in the country due to the government’s approach towards racism. The report, Racial Violence: The Buried Issue, released this week by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), analysed 660 cases [...]
Kathmandu : After resisting a year-long fierce battle by the Maoists to topple his coalition government, Nepal’s battle-weary Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal finally announced his resignation Wednesday in a televised address to the nation. Blaming the opposition Maoist party for the failure of his 13-month-old government to promulgate a new constitution in time and [...]
Hong Kong: An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit Solomon Islands Saturday but there was no reports of casualties. The quake struck at 1.40 p.m. (0540 GMT) Saturday, Xinhua reported citing the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicentre was determined to be about 220 km southeast of Honiara in Solomon Islands in the Pacific [...]
Jakarta: At least 11 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and several injured after fire broke out in a cafe in Indonesia Friday, officials said. The fire engulfed the Redboxx night club and cafe in Biyung district of East Java province, Xinhua reported quoting a local a police officer. So far seven bodies have [...]