Ananda Prasad Pokharel said the Twin Otter turboprop aircraft had been found in the western district of Myagdi on Wednesday and bodies could be seen scattered around it. Rescue teams Continue Reading
It lies in Balochistan, a province in the grip of a long-running separatist insurgency and Pakistan’s most neglected. Gwadar is poor. When a house was recently burgled in the fishing Continue Reading
After decades of stultifying military rule, all the talk was of a new era and a fresh start. “They [the people] hope that every problem will be solved automatically after Continue Reading
Mohamed Apandi Ali, a former judge with ruling party links, who was appointed attorney general by Najib last year, said on Tuesday that $681m (£475m) secretly deposited in Najib’s personal Continue Reading
Zhejiang Literature and Arts Publishing House announced this week that it would pull from shelves all copies of Tagore’s Stray Birds, translated by the Chinese writer Feng Tang, and would Continue Reading
There were protests outside the Thai embassy in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, and in towns around Thailand over the weekend calling for the release of the two convicts, Zaw Lin Continue Reading
General Min Aung Hlaing asked Thailand for a “review of the evidence” against the two men, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported. Myanmar’s army chief has called on Continue Reading
Nepal police have fired into a crowd of protesters trying to block a key border checkpoint and killed an Indian civilian as anger over a new constitution boiled over. “Police Continue Reading
Acting on a tipoff from Australian police, Indonesian authorities detained Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje on Sunday as he arrived in Bali from Sydney, a Bali police spokesman, Heri Wiyanto, said. An Continue Reading
The report, released on Friday by Global Witness, says that ahead of elections next month the findings show how much powerful elites and former rulers have to lose from open Continue Reading
