JAKARTA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Landslides hit a coal mine in Indonesia's western province of South Sumatra on Wednesday, killing 11 miners, head of the Emergency Unit of Provincial Disaster Management Agency Iriansyah told Xinhua on Thursday. Enditem
BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks and U.S. futures declined Thursday as investors watched Washington for signs of whether political leaders can agree on an economic aid plan in the two weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election.
London and Frankfurt opened lower while Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul retreated.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s government on Thursday canceled a state of emergency it had declared last week for Bangkok in a gesture offered by the embattled prime minister to cool massive student-led protests seeking democracy reforms.
The decree had banned public gatherings of more than four people and allowed censorship of the media, among other provisions. It was challenged in court by an opposition party and a group of university students.
BEIJING, Oct 21 (APP): The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldier, who went missing while helping local herdsmen find the lost yak near the China-India border on Sunday, has been returned to the Chinese border troops by the Indian army early Wednesday morning, according to a statement of PLA.
The move came after China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday urged India to honor its commitment to return the soldier.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has urged Southeast Asian countries to expand investments in digital infrastructures to ensure equitable access to technology as economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Masatsugu Asakawa said the region must close the digital divide and expand existing investments in digital infrastructure by building further and higher quality mobile broadband infrastructure and ensuring affordable internet access and coverage.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha backed down on Wednesday over emergency measures he imposed last week to stop three months of protests, but demonstrators said it was not enough and demanded he resign within three days.
Tens of thousands of people marched to his offices at Government House. The protesters have been demonstrating for months against Prayuth and to demand curbs to King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s powers.
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's ruling party chief on Wednesday called on Japan to find a middle ground over historical issues through dialogue between the diplomatic authorities of the two countries.
"(South) Korea and Japan both have principles each wants to keep in place. While leaving the principles untouched, (the two countries) can find a middle ground (over historical issues). The diplomatic authorities know the best (how to do it)," Lee Nak-yon, chair of the ruling Democratic Party, told a press conference with foreign correspondents in Seoul.
BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's joining of COVAX is an important measure to uphold the concept of a shared community of health for all and fulfill its commitment on turning COVID-19 vaccines into a global public good, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh (AP) — People infected with the coronavirus pack into cold basements along with the healthy to hide from artillery fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, while doctors who have tested positive do surgery on those wounded in the shelling. These are the grim realities of the pandemic in a region beset by weeks of heavy fighting.
TOKYO, October 20. /TASS/: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato declined to comment on the UK Foreign Office’s claims that Russian special services had allegedly tried to disrupt the Tokyo Olympics using cyber attacks before it was delayed until 2021 over the pandemic.
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