A series of condemnations over leaflets distributed in North Korea were driven by fury over “dirty, insulting” depictions of leader Kim Jong Un’s spouse, Russia’s top envoy in the reclusive country ... ( read original story ...)
Nepal offers locust bounty as swarms threaten crops
Nepal is offering farmers cash rewards for catching desert locusts to limit the damage caused by the destructive swarms that have ravaged harvests in India and ... ( read original story ...)
Playing and planting: Nepal celebrates paddy day
Splashing mud and drinking local rice beer, Nepali farmers this week celebrated National Paddy Day to mark the beginning of the rice-planting season, despite some coronavirus lockdown measures still ... ( read original story ...)
Nepal families face hunger as coronavirus crisis hits remittances
Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu grimaced as she recalled how she went hungry in order to feed her five-year-old daughter after the coronavirus pandemic cost her husband his job as a mason in the ... ( read original story ...)
Nepal arrests three men for quarantine rape, amid protests over unsafe conditions
Police in Nepal arrested three men on suspicion of gang raping a woman quarantined alone in an empty school, a case that has added to public anger over unsafe conditions for thousands of migrant ... ( read original story ...)
Group says hundreds tortured in secret prisons in Yemen
A Yemeni rights group on Tuesday accused both sides in the country’s civil war of arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture of hundreds of people in the past four years in unofficial ... ( read original story ...)
Scale of torture and deaths in Yemen’s unofficial prisons revealed
Human rights group says all sides in long war responsible for shocking abuse ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia’s former leader Mahathir wants to wrestle back power — just months after resigning
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad wants to take down the current government. His resignation from the top job in February had resulted in the collapse of the previous administration ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia needs a ‘strong hand’ to lead the country, says former prime minister
Malaysia needs a "strong hand" to lead the country through its problems, says former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has come out to back Sabah leader Shafie Apdal for premiership if snap polls ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19: After over 100 days of closure, cinema operators in Malaysia ready to welcome back moviegoers
Cinema operators in Malaysia are gearing up to welcome moviegoers back into theatres from tomorrow after 15 weeks of total closure since the implementation of the ... ( read original story ...)