Australia’s second-richest person, mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, is known to his admirers as a down-to-earth, straight-shooting businessman cut from the same cloth as self-made billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.And like his con...
Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam – A remote, mountainous province in northwest Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu is famed for the climactic eponymous battle of 1954 in which the Viet Minh resistance army defeated superior French forces to help bring an end to a century of ...
For more than a decade, Laos has been confronted with an escalating rat problem as the rodents chomp their way through rice, the country’s main cash crop and staple food.Described by farmers as a “sea of rats,” the vermin chew through at least 20 perce...
Bali, Indonesia – Travel industry figures fear the war in Ukraine could derail the much-anticipated recovery of tourism-dependent economies in Southeast Asia just as COVID-19 travel restrictions are finally being lifted across the region.The Philippine...
A politician linked to wide-scale deforestation in the 1990s and his Panama Papers-named associate, a Singaporean shell company, and the owner of an agricultural consultancy in Australia are among the figures behind a controversial carbon trading deal ...
House Republicans failed for the second time to pass a procedural hurdle for one of its 12 annual spending bills Thursday, a sign of the ongoing chaos over how to fund the government in the next fiscal year.The vote failed 212-216, with five Republican...
Tshisekedi’s pronouncement comes just weeks after the East African Community extended the mandate of a regional force in DRC.President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked his government to fast-track the withdrawal of a Unite...
Director Bharathiraja confirmed the demise of Babu by sharing the news on X and wrote, "He had the potential to rise as a massive star." Babu, a popular Tamil actor known for his role in the movie En Uyir Thozhan, passed away on Tuesday. He was 60. Ove...
The U.S. Navy is investing billions of dollars to revamp its Cold War-era submarine detection system in the Pacific Ocean as China bolsters its own navy and becomes more belligerent.The U.S. Integrated Undersea Surveillance System was first built in th...
Rock and roll legend Eric Clapton raised $2.2 million for Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., at a recent campaign event.Clapton performed at a Los Angeles fundraiser for Kennedy on Monday in support of his primary campaign against ...
