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YANGON (Myanmar): Myanmar’s junta has suspended the issuing of permits for men to work abroad, it said, weeks after introducing a military conscription law that led to thousands trying to leave the country. The junta, which is struggling to crush widespread armed opposition to its rule, in February said it

HONG KONG: A record-breaking heatwave is broiling parts of Asia, helping drive surging demand for cooling options, including air-conditioning. AC exhaust units are a common feature of urban landscapes in many parts of Asia, clinging like limpets to towering apartment blocks in Hong Kong or tucked in a cross formation

LIMA: At least 25 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday. Local official Olga Bobadilla told RPP radio the incident late Sunday happened on a potholed dirt road in the

BANGKOK: In Bangkok’s central Siam Square, Suriyan Wongwan sweats while he waits to collect the food that he will deliver by motorbike as Thailand bakes through a heatwave. “I’m afraid of getting heatstroke,” the 51-year-old told AFP as the mercury hit 37 degrees Celsius, with humidity pushing the “real feel”

NEW YORK: Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicentre of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at US colleges, began to be suspended on Monday after defying an ultimatum to disperse. Authorities at the prestigious university in New York demanded that the protest encampment be cleared by 2.00 pm (1800 GMT)

WASHINGTON: NASA’s James Webb telescope has captured the most detailed infrared images ever taken of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most majestic and recognizable objects in the night sky, the space agency said Monday. The new observations show the top of the “horse’s mane,” revealing for the first time

TOKYO: A huge black barrier to block Mount Fuji from view will be installed in a popular photo spot by Japanese authorities exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists. Construction of the mesh net — 2.5 metres high and the length of a cricket pitch at 20 metres —

DAR ES SALAAM: At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, the country’s prime minister said on Thursday. Tanzania and other countries in East Africa — a region highly vulnerable to climate change — have been pounded by heavier