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Construction netting found at the site of a deadly apartment complex fire in Hong Kong last week did not meet safety…
Leadership in a Changing Risk Landscape
In a video message opening the conference, Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency said, “First, nuclear energy depends on trust,…
Officials and delegates from 39 Budapest Process countries and 12 organisations last week pushed for the prioritisation on return and reintegration, legal pathways, and stronger cooperation on law enforcement. Hosted by Türkiye as Chair in…
Tropical cyclones have combined with heavy monsoon rains to lay waste to swathes of Asia, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving many more homeless.
Parts of the Indonesian archipelago have been particularly hard hit by flooding that began…
Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being put on trial in her absence alongside 16 other people over corruption allegations.
She was found guilty of influencing her aunt,…
The flooding and landslides that have devastated parts of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka over recent days have killed more than 1,000 people, according to authorities.
The…
PADANG SIDEMPUAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s president told survivors of last week’s devastating floods that help was arriving to those in need Monday as Asian governments scaled up their responses to a disaster that has left more than 1,000…
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
In a ruling on Monday, a judge…