A Myanmar-born perfume entrepreneur and missionary has snapped up nearly half of the oil and gas leases offered by the Trump administration since August, saying the coronavirus pandemic created an ... ( read original story ...)
New U.S. sanctions on Iran an effort to stop meds, food purchases: Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Friday called new U.S. sanctions on Iran's banks an attempt to prevent purchases of medicine and food, state broadcaster IRIB reported. "The President called the U. ( read original story ...)
Turkey: Nagorno-Karabakh truce efforts bound to fail unless Armenia withdraws
Turkey said on Friday efforts by France, the United States and Russia to end violence between Azeri and Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh were bound to fail unless they also ensured a withdrawal ... ( read original story ...)
2 remote Japan towns seek to host nuclear waste storage site
Two remote towns in northern Japan struggling with rapidly graying and shrinking populations are applying to possibly host a high-level radioactive waste storage site as a means of economic survival ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, Mongolia to cooperate on ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’
The foreign ministers of Japan and Mongolia agreed Friday to cooperate in promoting a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific," a vision that Tokyo is pushing with the U.S. and other “like-minded” countries to ... ( read original story ...)
Pakistan blocks social media app TikTok for “immoral and indecent” content
Pakistan's telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content, another blow to the social media app that has come under increasing scrutiny as its ... ( read original story ...)
Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘indecent’ content
Pakistan has banned Chinese social media app TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, the country’s telecommunications authority said. The decision came after a number of ... ( read original story ...)
Pakistan Blocks TikTok, Citing ‘Immoral’ Content
Pakistan has blocked online short-video sharing platform TikTok on the grounds of "immoral/indecent" content for viewing in the majority-Muslim nation. The state regulator said Friday that it had ... ( read original story ...)
Power Play, Morality and … a TikTok Ban in Pakistan
Reuters reported on October 9 that Pakistan has blocked the popular social media app TikTok in the country. It quotes a statement from the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) as saying that ... ( read original story ...)
Indonesia’s jobs law endangers environment, say activists, investors
Environmentalists in Indonesia are calling for the reversal of a controversial law aimed at job creation because it is seen favouring business interests at the expense of the environment and labour. ( read original story ...)