China says Greece will thrive if managed by us
Five years ago, state-owned container giant Cosco, the no.1 liner carrier in China, paid €3.3 billion into the coffers of Greece’s cash-starved government, buying out half the lease for the port of Piraeus, giving the Chinese a 35-year control of Greece’s biggest port. Today, while Greece sinks further with unemployment rate hitting 26 percent, Cosco […]
Brunei closed down beauty shop: woman staff attending male
Moving forward to realize its national vision, the ‘Wawasan 2035 Negara Zikir’, which calls for Brunei to become the purest Islamic economy in the region by the year 2035, the Sultanate in 2011 enacted new regulations banning gender mixing in local beauty and health establishments, including laws that prevent male employees from attending female clients […]
Economics of trafficking, Rohingya slaves sold in Thailand: US$2,300 per head
After getting beaten up by his Thai captor, Rohingya refugee Abdul Sabur was again whipped by bamboo sticks until his begging cries could be heard. His screams was then transmitted back to his relatives so to speed up the payment of US$1,800 smuggling fee. Shall there be delay or problem in the procedure, he would […]
Beijing says fleeing Uighurs were ‘on way to join jihad’
Beijing has said that more than 100 members of the minority Muslim Uighur community, who were returned by Thailand after fleeing China, were on their way to join armed groups in the Middle East. China’s official Xinjua news agency cited the country’s ministry of public security in a report on Sunday that said the 109 […]
China evacuates a million people as super typhoon nears
Super typhoon Chan-hom barrelled towards eastern China near commercial hub Shanghai on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of more than 865,000 people after earlier lashing Japan’s Okinawa island chain and Taiwan. The powerful storm could be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Zhejiang province, which borders Shanghai to the south, for the month of July […]
A photo of a Filipino homeless boy doing his homework in a carpark, changed his life
A homeless Filipino boy has become an inspiration after photos of him doing his homework outside in a carpark, using the lights from a McDonald’s restaurant because he had nowhere else to go, were uploaded onto Facebook. The nine-year-old boy Daniel Cabrera lives on the streets of Cebu with his mother, after his father died […]
Malaysian govt pulls Phoenix from MH370 search.
On 20 June 2015, on behalf of the government of Malaysia, DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (DEFTECH) directed Phoenix International (USA) to end its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) in the Southern Indian Ocean. Since 5 October 2014, Phoenix and teammates from Hydrospheric Solutions, Inc. (HSI) and GO Marine had been working round […]
Indian judge releases a rapist to attend mediation sessions with victim, in the hope the two could put their differences aside and marry
A judge in India recently released a rapist from jail so he could attend mediation sessions with his victim, in the apparent hope that the two could put their differences aside and possibly marry. The ruling prompted a public outcry, and the judge was criticized not only for his retrograde reasoning but also for misusing […]
Hit by drought and seawater, Bangkok tap water may run out in a month
Bangkok’s tap water supply may run out in a month, as the country waits for long overdue rains to replenish sources depleted by drought and threatened by seawater creep, the chief of the capital’s water authority said. Thailand is suffering its worst drought in more than a decade. In an effort to maintain water levels […]
Pakistan warns India, says can use nuclear weapons if needed
Islamabad: Not withstanding the efforts being taken by the BJP government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to improve relations with neighbouring countries, Pakistan has made a provocative statement threatening that the option to use nuclear weapons is always available to them. The statement was made by Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, […]
