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April 6, 2025

Pakistan could set world heat record this week: report
Pakistan could set world heat record this week: report ISLAMABAD: The U.S newspaper has warned that a world heat record could be set in Pakistan in this week. The Washington Post has reported that this week temperatures in South Asia could a touch record of 50 degrees this week. The American newspaper has warned that…
Asian students in US hit by disruption to visas and funding
TOKYO — Asian students are weighing an uncertain future in the U.S., in the wake of visa cancellations and disruption to the federal funding of international exchange and study-abroad schemes, including the flagship Fulbright program. A Japanese Fulbright scholar currently enrolled in a six-year PhD program at a U.S. university told Nikkei Asia that international…
PM assures full support to IT investors to make Pakistan technology hub
PM assures full support to IT investors to make Pakistan technology hub ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif highlighting Pakistan’s vision of becoming a regional hub for technology, finance, and innovation, assured his government’s full support to IT investors and reaffirmed the commitment to building long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with them. The prime minister, in a…
Japan’s Sakana AI sees opportunity with US uncertainty
TOKYO — America’s increasingly “unpredictable” foreign policy will spur demand in Japan for domestically developed defense-related artificial intelligence applications, according to one of the country’s most prominent AI startups. Sakana AI, backed by AI chip leader Nvidia, believes it is particularly well placed to meet that demand.
Tarar warns of possible Indian milit strike in 24-36 hours
Tarar warns of possible Indian milit strike in 24-36 hours ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said the “credible intelligence” reports indicated to the Indian nefarious plans of conducting a milit action against Pakistan in next 24 to 36 hours. “Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends carrying out milit action…
China’s factory activity contracts in April as new export orders plunge
TOKYO — China’s manufacturing activity contracted in April, reversing an expansion recorded in the previous two months, as the trade war with the U.S. started to weigh on the outlook for exports. The country’s benchmark purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.0 for the month, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Wednesday. The reading,…
Myanmar ceasefire hangs in balance as airstrikes continue
BANGKOK/KUALA LUMPUR — Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the milit regime of civil war-ravaged Myanmar, has given no indication whether he will extend the ceasefire he declared in areas affected by the deadly March earthquake after it expires Wednesday. Diplomats and analysts, however, say any extension will mean little because regime airstrikes…
A murder suspect confessed to the victim’s family — but as someone else, officials say
An Ohio man accused of murder devised an “elaborate plan” to frame another man who was initially arrested in the killing and held for more than a week, authorities in Indiana said. Nigel Thomas, 34, was taken into custody Friday on charges that he fatally stabbed a woman identified as 35-year-old Wilma Robertson, the Jefferson…
From Vietnam: 50 years after the war, Viet refugees share their family history
50 years after the fall of Saigon, a Vietnamese father sits down for a conversation with his America-born daughter to share their family history.