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16:38 29/05/2019
Govt seeks Unesco listing for 'tomyam kung'

The decision was reached at Tuesday's meeting of the Ministry of Culture's committee on cultural heritage protection and promotion, Culture Minister Vira Rojpojchanarat said after the meeting.

16:16 29/05/2019
New Zealand budget: National party denies hacking Treasury

The National Party, which leaked details of the budget two days ahead of schedule on Tuesday, said it got the information legitimately.

15:45 29/05/2019
Nusrat Jahan Rafi: 16 charged in Bangladesh for burning girl alive

Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was doused with kerosene and set on fire on the roof of her Islamic school on 6 April, days after filing a complaint.

15:27 29/05/2019
14:44 29/05/2019
'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft

Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible.

14:26 29/05/2019
14:02 29/05/2019
Singapore overtakes US, Hong Kong to be world’s most competitive economy

Singapore’s return to the top spot – its first time since 2010 – was due to an advanced technological infrastructure, the availability of skilled labour, favourable immigration laws and efficient ways to set up new businesses, the report said.

13:28 29/05/2019
Huawei ban puts South Korea in a familiar place: caught between the U.S. and China

But the gathering was overshadowed by the U.S. decision early this month to ban American tech and telecom firms from doing business with Huawei, and a push to get companies around the world to follow suit.

12:43 29/05/2019
Boeing 737 MAX may not return to service until August

The 737 MAX was grounded globally in March after a crash in Ethiopia killed all 157 people on board, the model’s second deadly crash in five months.

12:29 29/05/2019
Meet the photographer documenting life on the Korean Peninsula's DMZ

This 250-kilometer-long, four-kilometer-wide restricted area between North Korea and South Korea has captured imaginations and inspired anxieties about war since it was set up in 1953.

11:38 29/05/2019
11:16 29/05/2019
Tornadoes hit Kansas, Pennsylvania as storms sweep across US

Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey also were under tornado warnings hours after a swarm of tightly packed twisters swept through Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes, blowing out windows and ending the school year early for some students because of damage to buildings.

10:45 29/05/2019
North Koreans paying bribes to survive: U.N. report

The report said officials extorted money from a population struggling to make ends meet, threatening them with detention and prosecution - particularly those working in the informal economy.

10:27 29/05/2019
Huawei challenges legality of U.S. defense bill as sanctions fight ramps up

The NDAA bill, passed into law by the U.S. Congress last summer, places a broad ban on federal agencies and their contractors from using Huawei equipment on national security grounds, citing the company’s ties with the Chinese government.

10:00 29/05/2019

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Opposition MP pins unified map of Armenia and Artsakh to parliament rostrum
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MP urges action to secure release of Armenian prisoners held in Baku
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Levon Aronian condemns Ruben Vardanyan's sham trial in Azerbaijan
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Opposition MP: 'Trials' of Armenian prisoners in Baku deal a direct blow to Pashinyan
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15:30
HRW reports four femicides in Armenia in one year
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Government mum on Pashinyan's participation in Trump's inauguration
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13:01
EUMA hosts ambassadors from 22 EU nations
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12:36
Nicolas Aznavour urges collective action for Ruben Vardanyan's release
Nicolas Aznavour, co-founder and chairman of the Aznavour Foundation, has called for collective action to secure the release...
12:09
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan on a trip to Iran
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11:59
Arman Tsarukyan issues first statement after UFC 311 dropout
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11:37
RPA deplores lack of government efforts to protect Artsakh leaders from Azerbaijani persecution
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11:15
Ombudsperson slams 'trials' of Armenian prisoners in Baku
Armenia's Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan issued the following statement on the unfair trials of Armenians...
17:22
Human rights defenders call for international monitoring of trials of Armenian detainees in Baku
Over two dozen Armenian human rights NGOs and individual defenders have issued a joint appeal to international organizations and foreign...
16:51
Analysis: Aliyev's show trials echo Stalin's tactics in suppressing opposition
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16:36
HRW: Azerbaijan failed to ensure ethnic Armenians' right to safe and dignified return to Nagorno-Karabakh
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16:01
Noubar Afeyan urges action to promote fair trial for Ruben Vardanyan in Baku
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15:34
Former ombudsperson condemns UN silence on Armenian prisoners held in Baku
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