WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling Myanmar’s expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims a “genocide.” The lower house of Congress also accused the Myanmar military of “crimes against humanity” and called for the immediate release of two Reuters journalists who have
CHICAGO: A teenage gunman killed himself on Thursday at a school in Indiana, after being confronted by police officers who were alerted in advance of an armed suspect heading to campus. Police were tipped off at around 8.00am (1300 GMT) of potential violence at Dennis Intermediate School in the city
Belgium’s notorious Africa Museum reopens on Saturday after a five-year restoration that curators hope will bury its reputation as a colonialist holdover. Treasures looted from the continent have been repackaged in the hope of contributing to a more healthy debate about Belgium’s brutal past and multicultural future. But there is
The mayor of the Chile’s Easter Island territory conceded on Monday that the British Museum might be a better home for a massive native Polynesian statue taken by British seamen 150 years ago. Pedro Edmunds Paoa said Easter Island had a “thousand” of its iconic statues, known as the Moai,
JAKARTA: At least 300 villagers are hiding in a forest in Indonesia’s Papua province yesterday after they fled fighting between soldiers and separatists who killed a group of workers building a bridge in the area this month. They are cold and hungry after 11 days in the forest, Pastor Benny
Sarawak teen star wins world title in Hong Kong KUCHING: Sarawak youngest international champion Kabilan Jelavan Tiagarajan returned home yesterday with the championship belt from the recent World Muay Thai Championship International-1 (WMC I-1) in Hong Kong. He took the title for Malaysia in the 57 Kg category after a
KUCHING: Sarawak will for the first time be vying for the Lion Dance Pole-Jumping category at the Malaysia National Dragon & Lion Dance Championship 2018 from Dec 14 to 16. The state will be represented by Tung Fatt Youth Lion Dance Association based here. The team, comprising 25 members and
Stop feeding them or they will reign over us, DBKU warns KUCHING: The city’s growing pigeon population is ruffling feathers. Not the birds’ though, but city folk’s, especially the city council’s. On Dec 12, Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) erected five notice boards in three different locations in the city where
KUCHING: The Human Resources Ministry and the Chief Minister’s Office will form a technical committee on matters related to the amendments of seven labour laws including the Labour Ordinance (Sarawak Chapter 76). Human Resources Minister M Kula Segaran said the ministry would be amending nine Acts in parliament. “We have
NEW DELHI: A Buddhist monk has been killed by a leopard while meditating in a protected forest for the big cats, the fifth such attack in the area this month, Indian police said Thursday. Rahul Walke Bodhi was seated beneath a tree in Ramdegi forest in western India for morning
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