Singapore: Hindi and French are the most popular foreign languages among Japanese students at the Global Indian International School (GIIS) campuses in Tokyo, according to Atul Temurnikar, a prominent member of the education industry.
Temurnikar, the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Global Schools Foundation in Singapore which operates GIIS campuses...
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stressed his country will never abandon the nuclear weapons it needs to counter the United States, which he accused of pushing to weaken the North's defences and eventually collapse his government, state media said on Friday.
Kim made the comments during a speech...
Guwahati: Armed civilians called Chinland Defense Force (CDF), led by the Chin National Army (CNA) cadres have stepped up their attack on Myanmar Army.
In the last such attack, around 9.30 a.m on February 3, CNA/ CDF cadre dropped 03x bombs by drone at a village near Thantlang (Southern most...
Wan Jinjun, a 62-year-old retiree who has swum the Yangtze River almost every day for the past decade in Wuhan, said he’s never seen a drought like this before.
An extreme summer has taken a toll on Asia’s longest river, which flows about 3,900 miles (6,300 kilometers) through China and...
The version of “Game of Thrones” currently being enacted in the Pakistani political theatre is no less exciting and unpredictable than what the original HBO blockbuster offered viewers the world over.
The fortunes of the dramatis personae—two former Prime Ministers and a general and the supporting cast—have changed dramatically in...
Kathmandu: The last rites of the four members of an Indian family who were killed in the plane crash in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district would be performed at the sacred Pashupatinath Temple here after their post-mortem, sources said on Tuesday.
Businessman Ashok Kumar Tripathi (54) and his Thane-based estranged wife...
Geneva: Forty-seven countries voiced concern about abuses in China's far-western Xinjiang region, and demanded that the United Nations rights chief publish a long-delayed report on Uyghurs' repression.
"We continue to be gravely concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region," Paul Bekkers, the Dutch ambassador to the...
Beijing: China's quest for 'national identity' and to place Beijing at the helm of the global geopolitical ranking has taken an ugly shape as the ruling party continues their ill-treatment of Muslim minorities of Xinjiang and Tibetans residing in Tibet.
Chinese Communist Party's ugly face of their repressions of Uyghur...
With Chinese President Xi Jinping skipping a G-20 summit for the first time, Beijing is sending “deliberate signals” to India and the West by essentially downgrading its involvement in a key international forum, according to current and former officials and people familiar with Beijing’s thinking.
Missing the summit, they said, conveys China’s...
Influenza, Covid-19, and respiratory syncytial are common viruses circulating in Nepal that lead to sickness and pneumonia. Likewise, Mycoplasma pneumonia and pneumococcus are common bacterial infections in the country that cause pneumonia, especially in children.
According to reports, the same viruses and bacteria are responsible for the ongoing outbreak of...
