PASIR GUDANG, Johor: The Johor state government said on Thursday (Jun 27) that air quality in Pasir Gudang is good, adding that enforcement actions have been taken against 38 industrial premises for violating the 1974 Environment Quality Act. Speaking at a media conference, the state's Health ...

BEIJING: In a secretive school in China's capital rows of students face a giant video projection of Xi Jinping, making careful notes on the lecture on their leader's guiding principles. Sitting in red-covered chairs in a school dotted with statues of late Chinese leaders, the mostly male students ...

HANOI: Vietnam has culled nearly 10 per cent of its pig herd to contain an African swine fever outbreak that has started hitting large-scale industrial farms, the government said in a statement on Tuesday (Jun 25). Earlier outbreaks have appeared mostly at small household farms but have now ...

SINGAPORE: On Tuesday (Jun 25), the Singapore Food Agency put up a post on social media to raise awareness about African swine fever (ASF), a deadly disease sweeping across Asia, affecting hundreds of farms and leading to the death of millions of pigs.  Here are four things to know about the hog ...

NEW DELHI/LONDON: An Air India passenger plane flying to the United States was escorted by British fighter jets to land in London on Thursday (Jun 27) after what an official at the airline later said was a hoax bomb threat. Air India said flight AI 191 from Mumbai to Newark had made a ...