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AFP/APP Singapore: Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn into the wood over 70 years of making Buddhist and Taoist deities in her shop, one of the last of its kind in Singapore. Facing competition…

News DeskIslamabad: Pakistan's leading digital microfinance institution, Mobilink Bank, reaffirmed its commitment to fostering gender-responsive climate finance at the Conference of the Parties (COP28) held in UAE.Chief Operating…

Xinhua Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan on Sunday, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be…

Xinhua/APPHong Kong: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted the South Indian Ocean on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences reported.The quake's epicenter, located at a depth of 10.0 km, was initially…

AFP/APPBeijing: Beijing is the third most polluted major city on Earth on Wednesday, just ahead of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, stated IQAir– air quality monitoring firm.With tens of millions of people in northern China under severe…

Xinhua/APPBeijing: Beijing authorities issued an orange alert for heavy air pollution which came into force on Monday at noon and is expected to end on November 3 (Friday) as per the weather forecast.A spate of emergency response…

Asmat Shah Garwaki Peshawar: As many as 5.4 million school-aged children in Pakistan would be obese by 2030 if the unchecked sale and manufacturing of unsafe food, including chips and snacks, continued at such a high rate in markets,…

APPPeshawar: About 60 percent of infant and child deaths are caused by diarrhoea, while the cholera fatality rate is 25-5 percent, and every 16 minutes, a person dies of hepatitis, mostly due to drinking unsafe water in Pakistan,…

Fakhar e AlamPeshawar: The October 27, 1947, and August 5, 2019 are the blackest days in the history of Kashmir as on these days, India had made a deep-rooted conspiracy to rob Kashmiris of their history, language and ethno-cultural…

Rabbia ArshadLahore: Abdullah, a 17-year-old in his second year of studies, became entangled with cocaine at the age of 16 during a hostel event, driven by a desire to fit in with a "cool" group. What initially started as an attempt to…