Category: Region
Preacher apologises for Covid-19 remark blaming women
KARACHI (UCAN): Pakistan’s widely followed Islamic preacher, Maulana (scholar) Tariq Jameel, tendered an apology over…
Secretive Laos reports only a few Covid-19 cases
BANGKOK (UCAN): Laos has remained largely unscathed by the Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the country’s…
Thai medical frontliners ill-equipped and overworked
BANGKOK (UCAN): Medical workers on the front lines of Thailand’s fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus…
Myanmar’s Muslims observe Ramadan at home
MANDALAY (UCAN): Muslims in Myanmar are observing Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, at homesunder a nationwide…
Vietnam told to sue China over marine incursions
HANOI (UCAN): “We strongly condemn China’s illegal actions (in Vietnam’s waters and islands),” a group…
