BANGKOK (AP) – Thailand’s coconut-picking monkeys, long a popular tourist attraction, have become a sensitive trade issue as British activists claim the animals are abused and push for a boycott of …
Russia working on immediate Libya ceasefire with Turkey – Interfax
Russia and Turkey are working on an immediate ceasefire agreement for the conflict in Libya, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the Interfax news agency.
Philippines negotiating more foreign loans for COVID-19 response, says Dominguez
The Duterte administration is far from done with securing loans from foreign sources for its COVID-19 response, the Department of Finance said. In a virtual press conference Wednesday, Finance …
Woman killed as India, Pakistan trade gunfire in Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers barraged each other with mortar shells and gunfire along the highly militarized frontier in Kashmir on Wednesday, killing a woman and …
Indonesia’s Telkom Group unblocks Netflix as it amps digital push
Indonesia’s state owned telecoms firm PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia said on Tuesday it has unblocked streaming giant Netflix, after four years of negotiations.
‘More than one million’ died of snake bites in India
An estimated 1.2 million people have died from snake bites in India in the past 20 years, a new study has found. Nearly half of the victims were between 30 and 69 years old, and a quarter of them were …
India’s fiscal deficit touches 58.6% of annual target in two months
India’s federal fiscal deficit in the first two months through May stood at 4.66 trillion rupees ($61.67 billion), or 58.6% of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year, government data showed …
China’s June passenger car sales down 6.5% year-on-year: CPCA
China’s passenger car sales in June fell 6.5% year on year to 1.68 million units, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Wednesday.
China says it won’t join nuclear talks until the US reduces its arsenal
China would be “happy” to join trilateral nuclear arms control talks with the United States and Russia, on the condition that Washington significantly reduces its arsenal to match China’s own level, a …
China Opens New National Security Agency Headquarters in Hong Kong
The inauguration came as Hong Kong’s education bureau announced Wednesday that schools must not allow students to play, sing or broadcast the protest anthem “Glory to Hong Kong” because it contains …