Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia's farmers fight debt bondage

Jan 5,2019
Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty of Cambodia's farmers.
7 dead in building collapse in India's Delhi due to cylinder blast
Jan 04
 At least seven people died and eight injured when a building collapsed following a cylinder blast in a locality in Delhi, India late on Thursday night, local media reports said.
Advisory issued for possible tremors in Kumamoto
Jan 04
The Meteorological Agency has issued an advisory for possible tremors in and around Kumamoto Prefecture in western Japan.
China's high-speed railway length to top 30,000 km in 2019
Jan 04
China plans to build 3,200 km of new high-speed railways in 2019, with the total length expected to exceed 30,000 km, the country's top railway operator said Wednesday.
Vietnam spends more importing less petrol in 2018
Jan 04
Vietnam imported nearly 11.4 million tons of various kinds of oil and petroleum products totaling over 7.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, down 12.1 percent in volume but up 7.8 percent in value against 2017,
China lands probe on far side of moon: state TV
Jan 03
A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower.
8 police killed in checkpoint attack in N. Afghanistan
Jan 03
At least eight Afghan police personnel were killed and two others wounded after Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in northern Baghlan province overnight, a local official said Thursday.