Mainland China’s education minister reminded Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor of President Xi Jinping’s instructions on the need to strengthen young people’s education on the Chinese constitution, Basic Law, and Chinese history and culture. Chen Baosheng also assured Lam that his ministry would spare no efforts in helping the city address “all questions” and responding to “all requests” Read More

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday on her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year’s election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader. With Suu Kyi no longer an opposition figure, the United States is weighing a further easing Read More

Bangladesh’s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader and media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali was hanged on Saturday, the sixth Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Ali was hanged in Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the capital. “He was hanged at 10.35 PM (local time),” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told PTI. His execution Read More

The leader of the Syrian Islamist rebel group Nusra Front said on Thursday it was cutting its ties with al Qaeda to deny foreign powers including the United States and Russia a pretext to attack Syrians. Listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States, the Nusra Front was excluded from a truce negotiated in February. Russia and the United Read More

The smartphone industry is already starting to feel the far-reaching impacts being generated from the work by two leading names in technology, global internet and ecosystem conglomerate, LeEco and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. In just a few months, LeEco sold an astounding number of its superphones powered by the latest Qualcomm Technologies’ processors. It’s important to note that even Read More

Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Wednesday arrested by J-K police after he tried to visit the martyrs’ graveyard in Srinagar’s old city on the occasion of 86th Kashmir Martyrs day. Police, however, said he was released and has been now placed under house arrest. Police officials said the Geelani was arrested by the police after he Read More

Jammu and Kashmir Congress Leader G A Mir on Wednesday strongly condemned the bombing in Medina, terming it as “shameful act” and stated it had hurt the feelings of whole Muslim global. “We strongly condemn the shameful act wherein many precious lives were lost. We explicit serious subject and deep sorrow over the bombings in Madina Sharief,” Mir stated. US Read More

notwithstanding monetary and organisational issues which have not on time different production tasks for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the most important athletes’ village inside the long history of the games changed into unveiled inside the town on Wednesday. The village will host more than 18,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, officers, workforce and volunteers in 31 buildings and greater than Read More