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Sri Lanka tourism industry begins to recover after attacks, election is next hurdle
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's tourism industry, badly hurt by Easter day bombings, is showing signs of gradual recovery, industry executives say, although a national election later this year is likely to weigh on holiday season arrivals.
IGP: Special meeting soon to discuss Esscom proposal to remove curfew
LAHAD DATU (Bernama): A special meeting is expected to be held to consider a proposal by the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) to do away with the dusk-to-dawn curfew off the Sabah east coast.
'Stranded' Rohingyas from Rakhine land on Bangladesh coast
COX'S BAZAAR: Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on Sunday morning, Rohingya community leaders said.
Myanmar's Rohingya refugees relocated to Bangladesh island after weeks at sea
DhHAKA: Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea for weeks have been relocated to a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh officials said on Monday (May 4).
Cyclone kills 14 in India, Bangladesh leaving trail of destruction
KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) - A powerful cyclone pounded eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and destroying thousands of homes, officials said, leaving authorities struggling to mount relief efforts amid a surging coronavirus outbreak.
The day the earth moved
The blame game over the tragic Penang landslide started even before the first body was recovered while a polemic debate about the tragedy is still rippling through social media.
Fishermen's messaging service saves lives, boosts income in Odisha
A fisherman's son and now a fisherman himself, Kulamani Tarai knows all too well that while the sea has provided sustenance to his family for generations, it can also be a cruel and deadly place.
Work to build Bakun power towers begins
MIRI: The project to construct hundreds of kilometres of transmission towers to channel electricity from the Bakun hydro-electric dam in central Sarawak to the rest of the state has begun in earnest.
TNB tender for submarine line to be issued by year-end
KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is expected to issue the tender document for the submarine transmission line by year-end, said chief financial officer Datuk Izzaddin Idris.
RM10b bonds to fund cable project
PETALING JAYA: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) and other members of the consortium responsible for the Bakun transmission cable project are likely to raise RM10bil worth of bonds on a staggered basis to fund the eight-year job.
