July 22, 2019 5:35 PMSRIHARIKOTA/BENGALURU (REUTERS) – India launched a rocket into space on Monday (July 22) to perform a soft landing of a rover on the moon, the country’s most ambitious mission yet to cement its position as a leading low-cost space power. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-22 12:00:51 Category: Asia […]Continue reading

July 22, 2019 3:42 PMIn his commentary, the writer says that India’s membership in both the Japan-US-India and Russia-India-China groupings reflects how Indian strategic thinking is straddling two conflicting ideas. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-22 09:02:05 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8533

July 22, 2019 3:35 PMFlanked by over a dozen of her principal officials, she condemned the attacks in Yuen Long where groups dressed in white attacked black-clad people with sticks. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-22 09:02:03 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8532

July 21, 2019 8:47 PMNEW DELHI (DPA) – At least 12 one-horned rhinos, a threatened species, have died as a result of flooding in a national park in north-eastern India, park officials said on Sunday (July 21). Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 15:00:18 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8511

July 21, 2019 7:12 PMMANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to tackle some unfinished business when he delivers his State of the Nation Address on Monday (July 22), mid-way into his six-year term. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 15:00:10 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8508

July 21, 2019 5:37 PMSYDNEY (REUTERS) – New Zealanders have handed over more than 10,000 guns, weapons parts and accessories in the first week of a buy-back scheme prompted by the country’s worst peacetime mass shooting, police figures released on Sunday (July 21) show. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 12:05:17 Category: Asia […]Continue reading

July 21, 2019 5:15 PMNEW DELHI (AFP) – Four members of a family, including two women, were killed by fellow villagers in central India’s tribal heartland over allegations of witchcraft, authorities said on Sunday (July 21). Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 12:05:14 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8505

July 21, 2019 4:21 PMSYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian woman charged with murder has been sent for a medical assessment amid reports she decapitated her mother and left the head outside a neighbour’s house. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 12:05:12 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8504

July 21, 2019 4:00 PMCOLOMBO (REUTERS) – The United States wants a special forces cooperation agreement with Sri Lanka to sidestep bureaucracy and has no intention of setting up a military base in the country, the American ambassador to the island nation said in a television interview. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 […]Continue reading

July 21, 2019 3:40 PMPESHAWAR (AFP) – A female suicide bomber killed six people – including two policemen – in Pakistan’s restive north-west Sunday (June 21) in an attack claimed by the Taleban, officials said. Go to Source Author: straitstimes.com Post date: 2019-07-21 09:00:31 Category: Asia Tag: 2019 Post ID: 8500