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China has unveiled sweeping new regulations to tighten the release of information about its military online, a move that could obscure key sources for monitoring the world’s largest armed forces.
A group of protesters stormed a book stall in Dhaka over the display of books by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, prompting Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to order a probe into the “disorderly…
Pakistan’s prime minister on Tuesday expressed his deep grief and sorrow over the deaths of an unspecified number of his countrymen over the weekend when a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants sank near the Libyan coast.
A group of madrasa students recently attacked a stall at the ongoing Amar Ekushey Boi Mela (book fair) in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka for displaying a book written by exiled writer Taslima Nasreen.
A freight train, loaded with communication equipment and other products, departed from southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality on Monday and is expected to arrive in Afghanistan in 12 to 15 days.
In Pakistan, chaos engulfed the capital, Islamabad, once again as lawyers took to the streets today, protesting a meeting at the Supreme Court aimed at finalising the names of eight Supreme Court judges.
In China, marriages plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record. This occurred despite manifold efforts by authorities to encourage young couples to wed.
A Pakistani court has rejected the bail of a doctor who was arrested on charges of desecration of Holy Quran in Hayatabad Township in January.
Bangladesh authorities have arrested over 1300 people during a joint forces operation launched to tackle the latest wave of violence across the country which saw attackers vandalising the family residence of Founding…
Pakistani security forces have demolished 10 more bunkers in the strife-torn Kurram district as part of a peace agreement reached between warring Sunni and Shia tribes, officials said on Sunday.
