Ferry movement resumes on Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes after 7.45 hours, Poor visibility caused by dense fog disrupted ferry movements for 7.45 hours on Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes early today, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Paturia Ghat officials said. Ferry movement resumes on Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes after 7.45 hours “Dense fog blanketed the […]

Six dead in South Korea road tunnel fire, Six people have been killed after a bus and truck crash caused a huge fire at an expressway tunnel on the outskirts of Seoul, the local fire department told AFP.  Images of the scene in local media showed huge flames and plumes of smoke rising from the […]

Vietnam reports strong economic growth of 8 percent, Vietnam’s economy grew by eight percent in 2022, driven by strong exports and retail sales, authorities said on Thursday. Growth in the communist nation stuttered at around three percent for two consecutive years due to the pandemic. Before that, Viet’nam was a success story among Asian economies, […]

Death toll from Philippine floods, landslides climbs to 33, One person died and three others were missing in the southern Philippines after being hit by a landslide, police said Thursday, taking the nationwide death toll from recent rains to at least 33.  Authorities were still searching for more than two dozen other people missing after […]

Ten killed, 30 injured in huge hotel-casino fire on Cambodian border, As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border of Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surround them. The blaze at the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet broke out […]

Republican US lawmaker-elect under probe for fabricated resume, A US Republican congressman-elect who admitted making up significant parts of his resume is under criminal investigation, US media reported Wednesday, citing prosecutors in New York. George Santos’s victory in the Empire State helped his party secure a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, Congress’s lower […]

Travel misery grinds on as US digs out from superstorm, Thousands more flights were canceled across the United States on Wednesday, with no end in sight to days of travel misery as the country digs out from a deadly superstorm. Officials in Erie county in western New York — the area of the country hardest […]