Category: International News

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 (APP):Conditions in Myanmar’s troubled northern Rakhine state “are not in place to enable safe and sustainable returns” of more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence to Bangladesh since late August, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. Reacting to reports of an agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar… Continue reading Conditions not yet in place for safe Rohingya returns -UN

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 (APP):The head of the Vienna-based United Nations nuclear watchdog Thursday confirmed that Iran was implementing its nuclear-related commitments, saying the agency has access to all sites it needs to inspect. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano made the remarks in a statement to a meeting of the agency’s… Continue reading UN nuclear watchdog says it has access to all sites in Iran

BEIJING, Nov 23 (APP):Chinese companies are carrying out more than 20 railway projects overseas including Pakistan, with a total investment of 100 billion yuan ($15 billion), China’s railway authorities said. Zhu Zhexun, chief engineer of China Railway International Group, said construction is underway on projects including the China-Laos railway, a railway linking the Indonesian capital… Continue reading Chinese companies carrying out 20 railway projects overseas

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23(APP):The US sugar industry is accused of closing a study in the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to heart diseases, media reports said on Wednesday citing uncovered historical documents. According to the report in the New York Times, a recent investigation conducted by the University of California and published in the journal PLOS… Continue reading The US sugar industry is accused of closing a study in the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to heart diseases

CHICAGO, Nov 23 (APP):The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, has launched an endowed chair established to honour the legacy of late Professor Zia Hassan, a Pakistani-American educationist who served at the Institute’s Stuart School of Business for 54 years. It is the first time that an endowed chair has been set up in the… Continue reading Chair establish at Chicago institute to honour memory of Pakistani-American educationist

BEIJING, Nov 22 (APP):Some 38 billion messages are sent everyday via WeChat, according to a report published by Tencent Holdings, the owner of the popular messaging app. That’s up 25 percent over a year ago, furthering narrowing the gap with WhatsApp’s daily volume of 55 billion messages. Thanks to better internet connectivity and bandwidth, WeChat’s… Continue reading WeChat users send 38 billion messages daily: Report

BEIJING, Nov 22 (APP):There are some 228,327 professional journalists in China currently, according to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. The latest report says that 134,250 journalists are working for television, radio and film production; whilst only 1,151 serve news websites. The rest are employed by newspapers, magazines and news agencies.… Continue reading China home to over 200,000 journalists

NEW YORK, Nov 21 (APP):India’s candidate was Monday re-elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) after Britain withdrew its nomination from the contest. For 11 rounds, Justice Dalveer Bhandari of India and Christopher Greenwood of Britain were locked in a stalemate, with Bhandari getting majority support in the United Nations General Assembly and Justice… Continue reading India’s candidate re-elected to ICJ after Britain withdraws

  WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (APP):: A federal judge in the state of California ruled as unconstitutional the executive order by President Trump to block funding to cities which refused to cooperate with federal agents’ actions against immigrants. The order by Judge William H. Orrick will permanently block the implementation of Trump’s order to withhold funding… Continue reading US Judge rules against Trump’s order to stop funding to cities supporting immigrants US Judge rules against Trump’s order

BEIJING, Nov 21 (APP):Pakistan Embassy cricket team has won the Cricket Ambassador Cup – 2017 held here at the Chinese Capital. The tournament was jointly organized by Beijing Cricket International Sports Development Company and Embassy of Sri Lanka in Beijing. Pakistan Embassy team remained unbeaten in the tournament. The Embassy Team defeated teams from China,… Continue reading Pakistan Embassy team wins Cricket Ambassador Cup

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 21 (APP)::Overall economic growth continues to be disconnected from employment growth, and economic instability threatens to reverse observed gains in youth employment, the International Labour Organization said Monday. The global youth unemployment rate stabilized at 13 percent in 2016 but it is expected to rise slightly to 13.1 percent this year,… Continue reading Youth unemployment likely to rise in 2018: UN labour agency

  BEIJING,Nov 21 (APP):) China expressed strong opposition to the visit by two senior Indian officials to a disputed border area with China this month, with a Chinese expert calling it “political tricks” to win votes. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind visited the “Arunachal Pradesh” (China’s South Tibet) on Sunday and said the region “offers… Continue reading Indian officials’ visit to disputed border area a political trick: expert