Vietnam

Mongolia closes border, China extends holiday to fight virus

5:12 am January 28, 2020

BEIJING: China expanded its sweeping efforts on Monday to contain a dangerous new virus, extending the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose to 81. Mongolia closed its vast border with China, and Hong Kong and Malaysia announced they were barring entry to […]

Syed Modi International: Sourabh loses in final

6:51 pm December 1, 2019

Lucknow: Indian shuttler Sourabh Verma’s impressive run at the Syed Modi International tournament came to an end after he lost in straight games to Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei in the men’s singles final here on Sunday. The 26-year-old Indian, who won two BWF Super 100 titles in Hyderabad and Vietnam this year, went down […]

Envoy remembers city’s role during Vietnam War

7:55 pm November 22, 2019

Kolkata: The Ambassador of Vietnam to India Pham Sanh Chau on Friday remembered the city’s role when Vietnam was fighting against American imperialism in the 1960s. ‘Amar naam, Tomar naam, Vietnam, Vietnam’ (Vietnam is my name, Vietnam is your name) was the rallying cry which had rent the air in the city’s streets during the […]

Pakistani Parliament debates whether to expel French envoy

Pak among worst countries for internet freedom: report

8:23 pm November 6, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan is among the worst 10 countries in the world for internet and digital media freedom, according to a report by an internet watchdog. The Freedom House, an international internet rights group, on Tuesday released its ‘Freedom on the Net’ (FoTN) report for the year 2019, titled ‘The Crisis of Social Media’, recording an […]

Cinema only spreads love and connects people: Majumder

3:21 pm November 5, 2019

Guwahati: The ruling class, irrespective of political affiliations, is always scared of cinema despite the fact that it “only spreads love and connects people”, renowned film critic and curator Premendra Majumder wondered. He rued that nowadays most of the film festivals have just become a “business platform” to sell movies. “I don’t know why all […]