Beyondheadlines Foreign Reporter Thailand’s authorities warned the captal Bankkok would soon be flooded and called a special five-day holiday to let people escape.The capital is in danger from a combination of run-off water from the north and high tides on the Chao Phraya river, which is at a record level at certain points in the [...]
BeyondHeadlines Staff Reporter London: Mohd Asyraf Haziq, 20, a Malaysian student in London who was was victim of the riot last week was invited to the Westminster. Haziq was invited to Parliament by Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz today that is investigating the London Riots.The Malaysian student was on his bicycle was targeted by [...]
Beyondheadlines Staff Reporter Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Tun Razak today questioned the effectiveness of censorship laws in the country. He attributed the changes to the ICT phenomenon, globalisation and higher education level among the people, adding that the Government needed to respond to these changes. The Prime Minister said in this new era, [...]
BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: Chinese Security forces have detained about 300 Tibetan monks for a month now in a crackdown after a monk’s self-immolation, the Reuters reported. The Agency has cited sources saying monks from the Aba’s Kirti monastery in southwestern China were taken into custody on April 21. China is celebrating 60 [...]
Boston (PTI): Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that Osama bin Laden’s actions had to be “brought to justice” and forgiveness for the slain al Qa’ida chief does not mean one should “forget what happened.” Speaking to students at the University of Southern California, the Dalai Lama said bin Laden may have deserved [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Xinhua) — South Korean police on Tuesday raided the office of Google Korea in Seoul on suspicion that the internet search company illegally collected location data of smartphone users. Investigators from the cyber crime unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) were dispatched to Google’s Seoul office early in the [...]
PHNOM PENH, April 26 (Xinhua) — Thai defense minister General Pravit Wongsuwan will visit Phnom Penh to discuss ceasefire with his Cambodian counterpart Tea Banh, according to a press release from Cambodian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday. “Tea Banh has agreed to meet with his Thai counterpart in Phnom Penh soon in order to discuss [...]
PHNOM PENH, April 25 (Xinhua) — Cambodian and Thai troops exchanged gunfire in the disputed border area for the fourth consecutive day on Monday. Thai troops fired artillery shell into Cambodian territory over the disputed border area at the Ta Moan temple in Oddar Meanchey province on Monday afternoon, the spokesman said. “At 1: 45 [...]
TOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) — The Japanese government will prohibit people from entering an area within a 20-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, the government said Thursday. Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced the “no-entry” policy will be effective from midnight Thursday while visiting the Fukushima Prefecture in the morning. The restricted [...]
TOKYO, April 7 (Xinhua) — An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale jolted Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity in northeastern Japan at 23:32 p.m. (1432 GMT) local Time Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The JMS earlier issued tsunami warning following the strong quake, but the alert was lifted later. The focus [...]
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