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Rishi Sunak calls UK national election for July 4
Reuters, Published on 23/05/2024
» LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday, naming July 4 as the date for a vote his governing Conservatives are widely expected to lose to the opposition Labour Party after 14 years in power.
Vietnam shuts airports, imposes curfews as Typhoon Noru nears
Reuters, Published on 27/09/2022
» HANOI: Vietnam closed airports, announced curfews and urged thousands more people evacuate on Tuesday as intensifying Typhoon Noru barrelled towards the country, two days after causing at least eight deaths and widespread flooding in the Philippines.
India's top court orders states to pay B22,700 compensation for each Covid death
Reuters, Published on 05/10/2021
» NEW DELHI: India's top court ordered state authorities to pay 50,000 rupees (about 22,700 baht) as compensation for each death caused by Covid-19, as a way to help families cope with the loss, according to its order reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
20 crew missing after Philippine ship runs aground in typhoon
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2021
» A search was under way Tuesday for 20 crew members missing in the Philippines after their cargo ship ran aground while seeking shelter from rough waters churned up by a typhoon, the coast guard said.
Coronavirus deaths hit 56, China bans wildlife trade
Reuters, Published on 26/01/2020
» SHANGHAI: More than 2,000 people have been infected with a new coronavirus, the vast majority in China where 56 people have died from it, and the United States said it will evacuate some of its citizens from the city at the centre of the outbreak.
'My soul's calling': Indonesian policeman battles forest fires
Reuters, Published on 24/09/2019
» PALANGKARAYA, Indonesia: Wearing green gumboots and hauling a bucket of water, Indonesian policeman Toha runs up a road on the island of Borneo, where forest fires have filled the air with thick grey smoke and swirling cinders.
Myanmar police shoot, injure 4 in raid on Rohingya camp
Reuters, Published on 18/11/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar police shot and wounded four Rohingya Muslims on Sunday, after detaining two men accused of smuggling people out of a camp for displaced people in western Rakhine state, a witness and police told Reuters.
Facebook losing the war on Myanmar hate speech
Reuters, Published on 16/08/2018
» YANGON: In April, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told US senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese speakers to review hate speech posted in Myanmar. The situation was dire.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
China urges US to 'pull back from brink'
Reuters, Published on 23/03/2018
» BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China urged the US on Friday to "pull back from the brink" as President Donald Trump's plans for tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese goods brought the world's two largest economies closer to a trade war.