Palawan after ‘Odette’: 22 dead and counting
Initial reports estimate that the typhoon damaged between 70 to 80 percent of infrastructure in northern Palawan.
China drafts law to back women’s housework compensation in divorces
The amendment stipulates that husbands and wives should share household responsibilities fairly.
Japan hangs 3 in first use of capital punishment in 2 years
Executions are carried out in high secrecy in Japan, where prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning they are hanged.
20 YouTube channels, 2 websites blocked for spreading ‘anti-India’ propaganda
The Information and Broadcasting ministry said the channels and websites belong to a coordinated disinformation network.
Over 80% of China’s tutoring firms quit business
Advertising by tutoring companies has been basically stamped out and capital investment in such companies has also been withdrawn.
Overseas Filipinos heroes even in time of Covid-19 pandemic
Since 2020, over 1 million Filipinos had already been sent home for various reasons, but mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jakarta braces for floods as extreme weather strikes region
As spells of bad weather pick up in the region, city administrators are bracing for another year-end full of disaster-mitigation efforts.
Space burials, virtual grave visits among new ways to mourn
In an effort to suit their needs, an increasing number of people are dismantling ancestral tombs and moving it to a different location.
Cold wave to hit N. Korea as it prepares to mark leader’s 10 years in power
The 37-year-old formally rose to power on Dec 30, 2011, 13 days after his father Kim Jong-il died.
3 die after taking ‘cough syrup’ at Delhi’s mohalla clinic, 13 hospitalised
According to a report, the drug is strictly not recommended for paediatric age children.