UK government owns land known as the ‘Orange Plot’ earmarked for decades for use as an embassy, a Middle East Eye investigation reveals …
Indigenous Cambodians stripped of ancestral land
In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.
Nurseit Niyazbekov on Kazakhstan’s Tumultuous 2022
Domestic unrest, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a constitutional referendum, and now a snap presidential election.
Christian couple detained in Iran, sent to Evin Prison to for allegedly leading house church
When authorities in Iran summoned a Christian couple to Tehran, the house-church members supposed it concerned the return of their confiscated belongings Instead, they were detained in Tehran s Evin …
Japan’s oldest existing toilet damaged after driver backs into it
Japan’s oldest existing toilet, dating back hundreds of years, was damaged after a car crashed into it on Monday. A 30-year-old man who works for the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association …
Loo rolled: Japan’s oldest toilet damaged as driver backed up
Worker mistakenly accelerated while the car was in reverse, crashing into the building’s roughly 500-year old wooden door …
Japan’s oldest toilet damaged in car crash
TOKYO: A Japanese man tasked with preserving cultural heritage accidentally ploughed his car into the country’s oldest toilet in a centuries-old Buddhist temple, partially destroying it, police …
Man tasked to preserve Japan’s oldest washroom ends up crashing car into it
A man had accidentally reversed his car into the site at Tofukuji Temple in western Kyoto. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Hankyu Hanshin Properties Acquired Central Park Mall
Hankyu Hanshin Properties Corp. will be collaborating with Agung Podomoro Land in the operation and management of the Property …
Xi warned about Taiwan interference — but don’t expect an imminent invasion, analysts say
China will continue to work toward becoming more self-reliant, but don’t expect President Xi Jinping to move quickly on Taiwan by force, analysts said.