Thai Police Arrests 7 Nigerians, 2 Afghans for Fake Marriage Resident Visa

June 21, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

Thai police department says on Wednesday 21st June 2017 that it has cracked down on fake visa syndicate and arrested nine foreigners . On the information Read more

Thailand’s bad-loan ratio seen nearing peak

June 21, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

Bankok Thailand – Nonperforming loans at Thailand’s banks are set to peak toward the end of 2017, according to Fitch Ratings, an outlook that may salve Read more

Dog meat festival begins despite rumours of ban

June 21, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

A controversial dog meat festival has begun in the Chinese city of Yulin, despite earlier reports it had been cancelled or toned down this year. Read more

Cambodian eatery offers ‘Pol Pot’ rice porridge

June 19, 2017 9News Nigeria 1

By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A Cambodian food stall began on Monday serving a thin, watery rice porridge that almost everyone had Read more

Saving Bunong, a Vulnerable Language in Cambodia

June 18, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

WASHINGTON — Sylvain Vogel, a native of France, grew up in Alsace-Lorraine speaking French and German. Since then, he’s acquired fluency in English, Portuguese, Farsi, Pashto Read more

Black box from crashed Myanmar army plane retrieved

June 18, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

YANGON (Reuters) – Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a Myanmarese army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea Read more

Is Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Integrity Now Questionable? – Singaporean writer

June 17, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

Enough is enough. The time has come to reject the notion that this is just an ugly family fight and start looking at it as Read more

Lee Kuan Yew’s last will made upon his ‘express instruction’, says younger son

June 17, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Lee Hsien Yang, the brother of Singapore’s prime minister, said on Saturday his father had expressly instructed the drafting of a last Read more

Thai junta seeks to force temples to open their finances

June 16, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s military government will propose a law to force its tens of thousands of Buddhist temples Read more

Philippines says arrests senior member of IS-backed Maute group

June 15, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – The Philippines military said it arrested one of the Maute brothers on Thursday, a senior member of the Islamic State-backed Read more

North Korea ‘most urgent’ threat to security – Mattis

June 13, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday that North Korea’s advancing missile and nuclear programs were the “most urgent” threat to Read more

China offers support, help to Myanmar after plane crash

June 10, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

China will offer support and assistance for Myanmar’s follow-up efforts after a military plane crashed off the Southeast Asian country’s southern coast with 122 people Read more

Court jails Former South Korean minister over role in Samsung merger – Yonhap

June 8, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced a former South Korean health minister to two and a half years jail for his role in a corruption Read more

15 people survive in Myanmar military plane crash

June 8, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Fifteen passengers have reportedly survived a plane crash after military aircraft carrying more than 100 people vanished over Myanmar. Local media reported 120 servicemen and Read more

Indebted gambler behind Philippines casino attack – police

June 4, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Philippine police on Sunday identified the gunman behind an attack on a casino that killed 36 people as a heavily indebted local man addicted to Read more

36 killed in attack on Philippines casino – official

June 2, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

A gunman burst into a casino in the Philippines on Friday, firing shots and setting gaming tables alight, and at least 36 people were killed, Read more

Chinese Senior Official Gets Life in Prison for $22M in Bribes

June 1, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

BEIJING — The former head of China’s statistics bureau has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of taking bribes equivalent to more than Read more

U.S., China debating when U.N. should act on North Korea – Haley

May 31, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

UNITED NATIONS – The United States and China are negotiating when they should push for further United Nations Security Council action on North Korea and could Read more

Hong Kong’s autonomy is not a licence to challenge Beijing says Top China official

May 27, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

HONG KONG – A top Chinese official said on Saturday Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy must not be taken as a licence to confront Read more

4 bodies found inside tent at the highest camp on Everest

May 24, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Sherpa rescuers have found the bodies of four climbers inside a tent on the highest camp on Mount Everest, raising the death Read more

Taiwan’s top court rules in favour of same-sex marriage

May 24, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Taiwan’s top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex Read more

ISIS abducts Catholic Priest, 13 others in Philippines

May 24, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Muslim extremist group affiliated to ISIS abducted a Catholic priest and more than a dozen churchgoers while laying siege to a southern Philippine city overnight, Read more

Bomb blast in Bangkok hospital leaves 20 dead

May 22, 2017 9News Nigeria 0

Authorities say a bomb at a hospital in Bangkok has wounded 21 people. The blast went off at 10am on Monday in the dispensary’s waiting Read more

India Launch Campaign to Teach 5M Children About Sex Abuse

May 18, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

NEW DELHI — Civil society groups in India are working together on a new campaign to end child sexual abuse by 2021 by raising awareness and Read more

Businesses in Asia disrupted by cyber attack

May 15, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Asian governments and businesses reported some disruptions from the WannaCry ransomware worm on Monday but cybersecurity experts warned of a wider impact as more employees Read more

UAE princesses face trial for slavery

May 11, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Eight members of the Abu Dhabi royal household who are accused of treating 20 domestic workers like “slaves,” are being tried in absentia in Brussels Read more

Car bomb wounds 42 at supermarket in southern Thailand

May 9, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Muslim militants fighting for a separate state in the south of predominantly Buddhist Thailand were suspected of carrying out a car-bomb attack on Tuesday outside Read more

Jakarta’s Christian governor jailed for blasphemy against Islam

May 9, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

JAKARTA – Jakarta’s Christian governor was sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy against Islam on Tuesday, a harsher than expected ruling that is Read more

Indian state bans social media

April 27, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir on Thursday announced a month-long ban on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube. Internet service providers have been Read more

China launches first cargo spaceship

April 20, 2017 Chigozie Ekwenye 0

China has launched its first cargo spaceship on Thursday, taking the country one step closer to building its own space station. According to a media Read more