BBC News: China’s economy grew last year at the second slowest rate in almost half a century – in a sign of how the country’s strict coronavirus regulations have affected businesses. Official figures show the gross domestic product (GDP) of the world’s second largest economy rose 3% in 2022. That is way below the government’s […]
BBC News: The co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged. Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of Pokhara, killing all on board in the country’s worst […]
མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༦ ལས་ འགོ་བཟུང་སྟེ་ ཀུ་ཝེཊ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གཟིགས་སྐོར་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ ཆིབས་བསྐྱོད་གནང་ཡི། མི་དབང་མངའ་ཞབས་མཆོག་ ཀུ་ཝེཊ་ལུ་ཕེབསཔ་ད་ ཀུ་ཝེཊ་གི་ བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ མི་དབང་ཤེག་མི་ཤཱལ་ ཨཱལ་ཨཱ་མེཌ་ ཨཱལ་ཇ་བར་ ཨཱལ་ས་བྷ་མཆོག་གིས་ བ་ཡཱན་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་སྦེ་ ཕེབས་བསུ་ཞུ་ནུག། མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ གཟིགས་སྐོར་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཀུ་ཝེཊ་གི་ མི་དབང་སྐུ་འཁོར་ལྷན་རྒྱས་དང་ གཞུང་གི་ཆེ་མཐོའི་དཔོན་ཁག་ཚུ་དང་ མཇལ་འཕྲད་མཛད་གནང་ནི་ཨིནམ་མ་ཚད་ ཀུ་ཝེཊ་ལུ་ཡོད་མི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སྡེ་དང་ཡང་ མཇལ་འཕྲད་མཛད་ནི་ཨིན་པས། དུས་ཅི་གི་ ལོ་འདི་ཁར་ འབྲུག་དང་ ཀུ་ཝེཊ་གི་བར་ན་ དོན་གཅོད་མཐུན་ལམ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༤༠ འཁོརཝ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
The last time India won the hockey World Cup, things were quite different. It was nearly half a century ago and Indira Gandhi was prime minister when India lifted the cup in March 1975 in Kuala Lumpur – eight years ahead of India’s first-ever World Cup win in cricket. It’s been a long time since […]
Reuters: LAHORE, Jan 16 – A snap local election will be held in Pakistan’s most populous province, officials said, after the provincial leader, an ally of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggered the poll, putting pressure on the government ahead a planned general election. Holding local elections in a province with 110 million people, around […]
Reuters: OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 16 – Islamist militants kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The mass kidnapping is a first in the insurgency that spread to Burkina Faso from neighbouring Mali in 2015 […]
BBC News: Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for cancer. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia and he […]
BBC News: Bhutan is a tiny and remote kingdom nestling in the Himalayas between its powerful neighbours, India and China. Almost completely cut off for centuries, it has tried to let in some aspects of the outside world while fiercely guarding its ancient traditions. The Bhutanese name for Bhutan, Druk Yul, means “Land of the […]
ABC News: KYIV, Ukraine — The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on the apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 35, an official said Monday. Rescuers continued searching through the rubble for more victims, regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said. At least 75 people were wounded and 35 […]
BBC News: The minimum temperature in the capital, Delhi, dropped to 1.4C early on Monday as parts of northern India were hit by a cold spell. The weather department has warned that cold wave conditions are likely to continue over the next two days. Delhi saw a cold snap just days ago when the minimum […]
BBC News: Nepalis are observing a day of mourning for victims of the country’s worst air disaster for some three decades. At least 68 people died when a flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed and caught fire on Sunday morning. Mobile phone footage showed the Yeti Airlines flight rolling sharply as […]
BBC News: Myanmar’s military is producing a vast range of weapons to use against its own people thanks to supplies from companies in at least 13 countries, former top UN officials say. The US, France, India and Japan are among those named, despite Western-led sanctions intended to isolate Myanmar. The report says the home-produced arms […]
