Philippines accuses Chinese boats of 鈥榙angerous鈥� actions in high-seas medevac
As two Philippine vessels meet on the high seas to transfer a sick Filipino soldier, China Coast Guard boats shadow, block and bump them, according to...
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Torrent of volcanic mudflow hits Philippine village
Heavy rain washed volcanic mud and debris through a village in the central Philippines on Wednesday, two days after a nearby volcano erupted...
A greenhouse gas shipping levy is on the horizon
THE world鈥檚 first global carbon price is getting closer to becoming a reality...
PM Hasina urges int鈥檒 leaders to stop arms race
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the international community to end the arms race and instead spend the money for eradication of poverty and easing the adverse impacts of climate change...
Zelensky invites Biden, Xi to attend Ukraine peace summit
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday urged US president Joe Biden and China鈥檚 president Xi Jinping to attend a peace summit in Switzerland next month...
Thousands flee as Philippine storm hits main island
A severe storm battered the Philippines鈥� most populous island on Sunday, dumping heavy rain and causing flooding that forced more than 8,000 people to flee their homes...
China calls shots with Russia, Europe
XI JINPING鈥橲 balancing act with Russia and the West took on a new challenge with Vladimir Putin鈥檚 arrival in Beijing on May 16. It was roughly the 40th such meeting of these supposedly old friends...
New device helps paraplegics regain partial use of hands
More than 40 people suffering from paralysis from the neck down regained partial control of their arms and hands thanks to a relatively simple to use device, a large study said Monday.
Steps into the 21st century
VLADIMIR Putin and Xi Jinping added another to their count of 40-odd summit meetings when the Russian and Chinese presidents convened in Beijing, later proceeding to Harbin in Northeast China, for two days of talks that ended Friday...
Russia & China: two against one
Chinese president Xi Jinping鈥檚 extremely warm reception of president Vladimir Putin yesterday in Beijing sealed the increasingly formidable Russia-China...
China can鈥檛 have it both ways with Russia and West: US
The United States on Thursday said Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot both improve ties with the West and support Russia after he vowed to boost relations with his counterpart Vladimir Putin...
US opposes as Arab League calls for peacekeepers in Palestine
The Arab League on Thursday called for a UN peacekeeping force in the Palestinian territories and an international peace conference at a summit dominated by...
HSBC shares slide after report of Ping An stake sale
Shares in HSBC sank more than two per cent in Hong Kong on Friday after a report said major investor Ping An聽Insurance聽was looking to trim its stake in the banking giant...
Xi, Putin hail ties as 鈥榮tabilising鈥� force in chaotic world
Leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin framed their nations鈥� ties as a stabilising force in a chaotic world as they met Thursday in Beijing, where the Russian president is seeking...
Putin meets Xi in Beijing to seek greater support for war effort
Russian president Vladimir Putin met on Thursday with counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing as he seeks greater support from China for his war effort in Ukraine and his isolated economy....
Nanak urges India to lift ADD on jute products
Textiles and jute minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak on Tuesday requested India to lift anti-dumping duty on jute products...
Philippine economy grows 5.7pc in Q1
The Philippine聽economy聽grew slightly less than expected in the first three months of the year, data showed Thursday, owing to persistent inflation and a widespread drought...
China鈥檚 Xi heads to Europe to defend Russia ties
Xi Jinping heads to Europe on Sunday to defend China鈥檚 鈥榥o limits鈥� alliance with Russia, first to key Ukraine backer France, then to Serbia and Hungary, which have close ties to the Kremlin......
SC halts casino kingpin Selim Pradhan鈥檚 candidature聽聽聽
The Appellate Division on Thursday asked the election commission to maintain status-quo on allocation of symbol to online casino kingpin Selim Pradhan, who was allowed by the High Court Division to contest in May 21 Rupganj upazila parishad鈥� election as chairman candidate...
Philippine court鈥檚 decision defends food sovereignty
BANGLADESH has a wide diversity of rice and vegetables, but two genetically modified food crops 鈥� Bt brinjal and golden rice 鈥� are being promoted unnecessarily. This is unfortunate and shameful...
Online activist Pinaki, ex-JCD leader Ashik charged in DSA case
Police submitted a charge sheet against online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya and former joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Mofizur Rahman Ashik, in a case filed in 2022 under the Digital Security Act 2018...
Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 鈥榩artners, not rivals鈥�
Chinese president Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world鈥檚 biggest economies should be 鈥榩artners, not rivals鈥� as the...
Pak court fines GSK CEO 4.7m rupees
Considered to be one of the first cases in the history of Pakistan, the Rawalpindi Drug Court has awarded imprisonment and heavy fines to the CEO and other employees of a pharmaceutical company in a case involving a medicine that...
Philippine court blocks GM rice production
A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to...
12 extremists killed in battle with security forces in Philippines
Twelve extremists have been killed in the southern Philippines during a gun battle with security forces that left seven soldiers wounded, the army said in a statement.聽....
Unbecoming comments of ex-Indian high commissioner
PINAK Ranjan Chakravarty, a former Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, said during the launch of his memoirs at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi on March 28 that US ambassador Peter Haas went into hiding after...
Three Filipinos killed in UAE floods
Three workers from the Philippines have died in heavy flooding in the United Arab Emirates, Filipino officials announced, as the desert country struggled on...
Opening devil鈥檚 door in Asia-Pacific
POLITICAL tensions are increasing in the Asian-Pacific region after a summit in Washington resulted in indications that New Zealand, Japan and the Philippines are moving towards greater integration with the US-led military bloc in the region...
Rajuk must abandon its strategy of denial
The probe report of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha investigating the cause of the fire at the Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall in Dhaka on February 29 failing to identify its negligence leading to the avoidable and untimely...
Shopping mall attack kills six in Australia鈥檚 Sydney
Six people were killed and several others injured -- including a nine-month-old baby -- when a knife-wielding attacker rampaged through a busy Sydney shopping centre on Saturday.