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South East Asia
Dock workers missing in Thailand oil tanker explosion
BANGKOK: Eight workers were missing and several houses were damaged after an empty oil tanker caught fire and exploded at a dockyard on the Mae Klong river in Muang district in central Thailand on Tuesday morning. The explosion aboard the tanker Smooth Sea 22 was reported to police about 9.17am,…
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Central Asia
Three killed, one injured in 16-storey building fire in Kazakhstan
KARAGANDA: Three people died from an explosion in a 16-storey building in Karaganda, the capital of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan. According to the local emergency department, the explosion occurred on the eighth floor of the residential building at around 9:29pm, Kazinform news agency reported. “An apartment on the eighth floor…
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Controversy over Pakistani “journalist” deported from Malaysia
KUALAL LUMPUR: The fate of a Pakistani “journalist” who was deported from Malaysia upon a request from his home country has waded into controversy amid conflicting claims. Syed Fawad Ali Shah, who was in exile in Malaysia for more than 10 years, has been missing since Aug 23 last year.…
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Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan roadmap for 37 investment projects, trade contracts signed
ASTANA: Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have agreed on a roadmap for the implementation of investment agreements and trade contracts signed during the visit of the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Uzbekistan on December 2122. The agreements were signed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan Serik…
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East Asia
China creates all conditions for transportation of passengers and goods
By Nurzhan Kasmalieva GUANGDONG: Journalists from countries located along the Silk Road visited some provinces of China and got acquainted with the achievements of the joint construction of the Belt and Road in China. In 2019, the Chinese authorities published theses of the development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau…
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The 4th Asian Literature Festival “In Search of Asia’s Lost Faces” hold by Asia Culture Center
“In Search of Asia’s Lost Faces” is the theme of The 4th Asian Literature Festival hosted by Asia Cultural Center in Gwang-ju city, Republic of Korea, which opened on Oct. 20 and ended on Oct. 24. It was followed by session 1(Seeing Each Other: The Lost Face), session 2(Seeing Anew:…
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South Asia
Pakistan: Politics of Bullets and Blames
By Nasir Aijaz, The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The politics in Pakistan has taken a new turn of ‘Bullets and Blames’ after the country’s ousted premier and the chairman of PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) Imran Khan alleged that Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, his Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and a senior military officer were…
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South Asia
Pakistan Deluge: Disaster, but more than natural
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: No doubt the unprecedented torrential rains that lashed the country continuously for over two months were a natural disaster but the way the millions of Pakistanis were devastated was in fact an unnatural disaster caused by the human acts of omission and commission.…
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East Asia
Baku: Creative meeting with Ashraf Aboul-Yazid
By Eldar Akhadov BAKU: A meeting was held at the Russian House on September 17 with the famous Egyptian poet and writer Ashraf Aboul-Yazid and Co-Chairman of the Literary Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia (ANE), honorary member of the Writers’ Union of Azerbaijan, Russian writer Eldar Akhadov.…
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