Malaysian authorities have seized a Chinese registered dredger suspected of looting the wrecks of British warships that sunk off the east coast of the peninsula during World War II.   The Fuzhou-registered Chuan Hong 68 was detained off the coast of the Malaysian state of Johor on May 28, the Malaysian...
A Chinese fighter jet swerved in front of a US reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea in an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver,” the Pentagon said, part of what a senior American official described as a pattern of more confrontational behavior in the region. The pilot of the J-16 fighter flew...
Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims surrounded a mosque in southwestern China over the weekend in a last-ditch effort to prevent what they said was an attempt by authorities to remove its dome and minarets, as a crackdown on religious freedoms widens.   The apparent alteration of a mosque belonging to the...
The prices of sugar and flour are skyrocketing once again in various districts of Balochistan including in the provincial capital Quetta. Many districts of poverty-struck Balochistan are witnessing a rise in the prices of sugar and flour once against. In various districts including the provincial capital Quetta, sugar is being sold from PKR 130 to PKR...
KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 — Malaysian authorities reportedly impounded a Pakistani airline’s passenger jet over unpaid charges to the leasing company, which has left passengers stranded.   The Boeing Co 777 jet operated by the Pakistan International Airlines Corp (PIA) was seized on Monday, forcing the carrier to send a replacement...
BEIJING, May 31- China's factory activity shrank faster than expected in May on weakening demand, heaping pressure on policymakers to shore up a patchy economic recovery and knocking Asian financial markets lower.   The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to a five-month low of 48.8, the National Bureau of...
ISLAMABAD: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to further exacerbate in coming months if the economic and political crisis further worsens, compounding the effects of the 2022 floods, warns a new United Nations report published on Monday.   The report titled, Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity,...
China's persecution of ethnic minorities culminated in a major and rare moment of backlash in the Nagu town of restive Yunnan province, over 2,400 km southwest of the capital Beijing.   The protests erupted on Saturday after the police began stepping forward to demolish a section of a 13th-century mosque.   The footage,...
Islamabad: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to rise in the next months if the country's economic and political turmoil intensifies, aggravating the consequences of the 2022 floods, according to a new United Nations report released on Monday. The report, titled 'Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Severe Food Insecurity'...
A new coronavirus variant has spread in China that will trigger a COVID-19 wave infecting nearly 65 million people every week by the end of next month, June, according to emerging reports. The XBB, a variant of SARS-CoV-2, is spreading fast in neighbouring China in only six months after Chinese...