Asia Archives | Page 37 of 108 | All about Asia stories

Overnight shelling takes death toll in north Yemen to 100, say Salafis

YoopyaNovember 4, 2013March 10, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 4, 2013March 10, 202408

(Reuters) – Overnight shelling has taken the death toll from fighting between rival Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim groups in a northern town in Yemen to at least...

Asia News World

India throws rings of protection around divisive candidate Modi

YoopyaNovember 4, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 4, 2013February 14, 202400

(Reuters) – – Indian security forces are preparing for one of their most challenging assignments in decades, protecting prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in a...

Asia News World

Workers across Indonesia go on 2-day strike

YoopyaOctober 31, 2013March 3, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 31, 2013March 3, 202401

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Laborers across Indonesia began a two-day strike Thursday demanding benefits and higher pay while protesting the hiring of contract workers. Said...

Asia News World

Syria destroyed chemical arms equipment

YoopyaOctober 31, 2013March 4, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 31, 2013March 4, 202401

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria has destroyed critical equipment for producing chemical weapons and poison gas munitions, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday as fierce...

Asia Education News World

Meet the Australian children fluent in Mandarin

YoopyaOctober 29, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 29, 2013February 14, 202405

Australia’s politicians often talk about the importance of building ties with Asia. Successive governments have promised to increase the number of schools teaching Asian languages,...

Asia News World

Pakistani doctors angered by failure to halt abductions

YoopyaOctober 29, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 29, 2013February 14, 202401

On the evening of 17 September Dr Abdul Manaf Tareen, a renowned heart specialist in Pakistan, was about to go home when a group of...

Asia News World

China Tiananmen Square car blaze kills three people

YoopyaOctober 28, 2013March 6, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 28, 2013March 6, 202403

Chinese state media say three people have died after a vehicle crashed in Tiananmen Square in the capital, Beijing. Eleven other people, including tourists, were...