Bangkok, Feb 24 (IANS) Indonesia plans to close down all red-light districts in the country by 2019, media reports said on Wednesday. The plan, under the supervision of the Indonesian Social Affairs Ministry, looks to…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) Two infants were among the 23 people killed when their Nepal airlines plane — missing for over four hours — was discovered crashed in the Himalayas on Wednesday, a minister said….
Beijing, Feb 24 (IANS) Reconstruction of a train station severely damaged in the fatal warehouse blasts in China’s Tianjin city last year will start in March, authorities said on Wednesday. The Donghailu stop of a…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Infrastructure conglomerate GMR Group on Wednesday said the Maldives airport arbitration tribunal has ruled in favour of the group in the Axis Bank debt case. “By its award dated 23rd…
Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) Freedom of navigation in the South China Sea has not been a problem and demilitarisation in the region needs efforts of all parties related, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said….
United Nations, Feb 24 (IANS) Thousands of refugees and migrants were left abandoned at sea by their smugglers in 2015 as they crossed the Bay of Bengal, said a report published by the UN High…
Lima, Feb 24 (IANS) Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) said here that bribery in international trade transactions should be punished. The members voiced this view at the 22nd meeting of APEC’s Anti-Corruption and…
Dublin, Feb 24 (IANS) Ireland has seen the lowest unemployment figures in seven years, with 142,300 people back to work since the height of the unemployment crisis, according to official figures. The figures from the…
Strasbourg, Feb 24 (IANS/AKI) The Italian government abused state secrecy in the CIA’s kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric who was spirited to his homeland for interrogation under torture, the European Court of Human rights has…
Moscow, Feb 24 (IANS) A coordination centre began operations at Syria’s Hmeimim airbase in order to implement the ceasefire, the Russian defence ministry has said. “In accordance with the Russian-US February 22 agreement on the…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft carrying 23 people on board which went missing on Wednesday morning and is now feared to have crashed in Nepal, officials said. The Tara Air Viking 9N-AHH Twin Otter…
United Nations, Feb 24 (IANS) UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Miroslav Jenca has held two days of talks in the Maldives with government and opposition leaders to facilitate a dialogue in the Indian Ocean…
Havana, Feb 24 (IANS) The US Treasury Department has fined a French firm for doing business in US equipment with Cuba in violation of the United State trade embargo against the Caribbean island nation. CGG…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft with 21 people, including two foreigners, on board went missing in Nepal on Wednesday, an official said. “The plane took off from Pokhara at 7.47 a.m. The aircraft lost…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft with 21 people on board went missing in Nepal on Wednesday, an official said. The search operation for the Twin Otter aircraft, flying to Jomsom town from Pokhara city…
Geneva, Feb 24 (IANS) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein welcomed the just announced plan of the US to close Guantanamo, saying that he hope no further obstacles are placed…
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 16, 2016 (Xinhua) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reads out a statement on the passing of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, at the UN headquarters in New York, Feb. 16, 2016….
Damascus, Feb 24 (IANS) The recently declared cessation of hostilities must not affect the war on terror, Syrian Minister of National Reconciliation Ali Haidar said. The minister on Tuesday hailed the government acceptance to observe…
Singapore, Feb 24 (IANS) The Singapore economy grew 1.8 percent on a year-on-year basis in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the whole year GDP growth eased to two percent last year, the Ministry of…
Canberra, Feb 24 (IANS) Australia will raise defence spending to two percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) over the next seven years in a formal announcement to be made by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull…