NEW DELHI: Malaysia Airlines (MAS), which has added Kochi in Kerala as its sixth destination in India, will focus its further expansion in routes that provide both leisure and business travel, its Regional Senior Vice-President (South Asia and (...)
SINGAPORE: Singapore stocks tumbled by the most among developed markets last month as investors pulled cash from Southeast Asia on concern about the future of global stimulus.
Singapore's Straits Times Index, the benchmark gauge for the region's (...)
The head of the UK parliamentary committee on public accounts has called on tax officials to scrutinize closely Vodafone's pending sale of its stake in US operator Verizon Wireless.
This follows reports that that the UK-based company would pay just (...)
Water supply in Hulu Selangor, Kuala Langat and Kuala Selangor, disrupted by pollution of Sungai Selangor, was restored this evening.
Syarikat Air Selangor (Syabas) Corporate Communications and Public Affairs assistant general manager, Priscilla (...)
Hindus have thanked Oscar winner Hollywood star Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) for patronizing yoga.
Roberts, who reportedly confessed of being a "practicing Hindu" few years back, recently reportedly urged singer Taylor Swift to "try yoga to tone her (...)
The International Labor Organization (ILO) on Monday warned of "serious abuses" in the Thai fishing industry — a major global supplier — such as forced labor and violence.
About 17 percent of the mainly undocumented Myanmar and Cambodian fishermen (...)
Egypt's consul in the Libyan capital of Tripoli was attacked Monday by a group of unidentified militants, the Egyptian embassy in Libya confirmed to Bikyanews.com on Monday afternoon.
In a press statement, the embassy said that the gunmen forced the (...)
Communist rebels have burned down a rubber processing facility in the southern Philippines, leaving a landmine that killed a factory worker as he rushed to the scene, the military said Monday.
The worker, Hector Lalaguna, was aboard a truck that (...)
There has been an extremely heavy toll on journalists since President Mohamed Morsi's removal by the army two months ago after a year in power that ended with six days of major street protests.
When the army ousted Morsi on 3 July, Reporters Without (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia, a country highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, land degradation, deforestation and food insecurity, is stepping up its efforts to fight climate change, promote sustainable rural development and build resilience.
On (...)
BANGKOK: The Cambodian government on Sunday warned foreigners to stay away from opposition protests against a hotly disputed election as thousands of riot police practiced crowd control in the capital.
Authorities and security forces would "avoid (...)
The Amur River which marks the border between China and Russia has experienced its worst flooding in a century, cutting off roads to some areas, Chinese state media said Monday.
The Amur, which China knows as the Heilong River, has risen since (...)
Hindus are urging Czech Republic for adequate protection of Roma (Gypsy) populace in view of recent anti-Roma marches in various cities/towns, which reportedly included violent clashes.
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in (...)
Award is the biggest design award in the world worth €500,000 and is given ONLY to design that improves life for people. The winners of INDEX: Award 2013 have been selected by a professional, international jury between 1.022 nominations from 73 (...)
Yeshi Tadesse, a mother of six, seems an unlikely proponent of family planning as a solution to climate change. But the Ethiopian villager in her 30s speaks eloquently of the linkages between the two issues.
Tadesse has witnessed the forests she (...)
Very soon, Denmark's Stone Age structures – the large passage tombs that are older than the Pyramids – will be a part of the European Cultural Route known as Megalithic Routes.
Megalithic Routes winds its way in and out of the German, Dutch, Swedish (...)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate a possible bias motive for repeated acts of vandalism (...)
NEW DELHI: India's parliament on Monday passed a flagship 18-billion-dollar program to provide subsidized food to the poor that is intended to "wipe out" endemic hunger and malnutrition in the aspiring superpower.
The Food Security Bill — a key (...)
Hundreds of thousands of revelers hit the streets Monday for the Notting Hill Carnival, the celebration of Caribbean culture that filled west London with dancers in shimmering feathers.
The two-day extravaganza draws up to a million people to the (...)
The United States said Tuesday that chemical weapons had been used against Syrian civilians and warned President Barack Obama would demand accountability for this "moral obscenity."
Employing his strongest language yet, US Secretary of State John (...)
A powerful gaze, heavy eyebrows, downy upper lip, eye-catching dresses and artistic hairstyles – Frida Kahlo's distinctive features will be familiar to most. Including herself in her art in new and active ways, Kahlo was a modern-art pioneer with a (...)
Egyptian Women struggled over the 6 decades in order to obtain the right to political participation, which started since the revolution of July 23, 1952 until women got the right to participate as voters and candidates in 1956, and resulted in their (...)
Buddhist monks led protests in the Sri Lankan capital Monday against the UN's top rights official, who began a fact-finding mission to the country following concerns about war crimes.
Dozens of monks and pro-government activists staged the noisy (...)
As the number of refugees leaving Syria continues to rise, American President Barack Obama has said the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria in an attack on Wednesday is a "big event of grave concern."
Obama said the US was still seeking (...)
Three years of bloodshed in Syria have driven one million children from their homeland, United Nations agencies said today as they marked this "shameful milestone" by urging the entire international community to do more to help end the conflict and (...)
