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Sri Lanka scraps plans to export endangered monkeys to China

BANKRUPT Sri Lanka’s government on Monday (26) said it was scrapping plans to export around 100,000 endangered monkeys to China following an outcry and...

Modi honoured with Order of the Nile during Egypt visit

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi met Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo last Sunday (25) on a rare visit during which both sides...

Bangladesh garment industry workers protest as union leader beaten to death

SCORES of workers protested in Bangladesh’s garment industry hub on Monday (26) after a union leader was killed while trying to intervene in a...

Melting glaciers pose threat to Himalayas

GLACIERS in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing...

Deal or no deal, UK must trade with India: Dominic Johnson

BRITAIN’S investment minister said on Tuesday (27) he would like to see strong investment protections in any future trade deal with India, and that...

Bangladeshi hangman who killed over two dozen in jail says he ‘had a good time inside’

A JAILED Bangladeshi hangman who executed more than two dozen fellow prisoners, including killers and coup plotters, in exchange for sentence reductions was released...

Indian drugmaker Curis ‘challenges Nigeria’s claim of toxic paracetamol syrup’

AN INDIAN maker of a paracetamol syrup that Nigerian authorities have found toxic told Reuters on Tuesday (20) that tests by a private Indian...

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