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South China Morning Post, Published on 06/09/2024
» Senior Buddhist figures in China have emphasised the importance of government approval in the recognition of reincarnated Tibetan religious leaders, at a meeting this week less than a year before the Dalai Lama is expected to announce his succession plan.
Published on 24/08/2024
» A US judge has dismissed charges against a Kansas man for possessing a machine gun, saying prosecutors failed to establish that a federal ban on owning such weapons is constitutional.
Published on 24/07/2024
» SEOUL - North Korean balloons carrying trash have landed near the South Korean presidential office, the Presidential Security Service said on Wednesday.
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/07/2024
» HANOI - Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's Communist Party chief and the country’s most powerful official, has died, according to a government statement.
Published on 12/05/2024
» JAKARTA: As Indonesia’s president elect Prabowo Subianto prepares to enter office in October, he looks set to take a more assertive stance in foreign policy, saying that diplomacy, negotiations, and the "Asian way" have helped to defuse tension.
Published on 22/01/2024
» Prime Minister Narendra Modi fulfilled his party’s decades-long promise by consecrating a controversial Hindu temple in northern India on Monday, marking a new milestone in the popular leader’s project of reshaping the country into a more avowedly Hindu nation.
Published on 13/01/2024
» A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a US law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark US Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights.
Published on 09/01/2024
» MANILA - More than six million Catholic devotees in the Philippines turned up for this year’s procession to honour the Black Nazarene, turning the streets of the capital into a sea of maroon and yellow, in a grand display of religious devotion.
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2024
» MANILA - The streets of the Philippine capital turned into a sea of maroon and yellow on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of Catholic devotees joined a procession in honour of the Black Nazarene in Asia's largest Catholic nation.
AFP, Published on 01/01/2024
» LIMA - The fighting begins and ends with a hug, part of a singular ritual that has residents of the Peruvian Andes punching and kicking in a year-end fight competition known as Takanakuy.