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Afghan Wireless Launches 3.75G+ Services: First Cellular Telephony Company To Bring True Mobile Broadband To Afghanistan

- Building on its extensive 2G network and successful mobile money initiative (MyMoney), Afghan Wireless Communication ...

Ehsanollah Bayat Receives Human Rights Award For Exceptional Humanitarian Contributions to Healthcare, Education, Human Rights, and Democracy From Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission

- In recognition of the 66th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Sima Samar, ...

US Defence Secretary Hagel to resign: Officials

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will resign on Monday, senior officials told reporters, as the White House faced ...

Australia tightens asylum seekers access, leaves refugees in Indonesia

Australias conservative government on Wednesday defended its decision to stop asylum seekers passing through ...

Afghan female parliament member survives suicide attack, 3 dead

A suicide bomber on Sunday targeted a vehicle convoy of Afghan lawmakers that included a prominent female member of ...

VP calls on national components to overcome radicalism

Vice-President Jusuf Kalla appealed to all religious and national components on Tuesday to join hands in the fight to ...

11 Rohingyas held in Medan immigration detention center

Eleven Rohingyas from Myanmar are being held at the Medan Immigration Detention Center in Belawan, North Sumatra, for ...

Hundreds Of Children In Afghanistan Receive Free Hearing Aids

- Last week the Bayat Foundation kicked off a partnership with Starkey Hearing Foundation to provide hearing health ...

Indonesia should be stricter with Australia on illegal immigrant issue

Indonesia, under the rule of new President Joko Widodo or Jokowi, should be more firm in dealing with Australia on the ...

From Southeast Asia to the World

Following on the co-production memorandum signed between distribution specialist Hub Media Group and media financing ...

UN`s Ban Ki-moon congratulates Afghanistan`s new president, ceo on inauguration

After the belated inauguration of a new president in Afghanistan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement, ...

Australian police shoot dead `known terror suspect`

Police in Melbourne have shot dead a "known terror suspect" who stabbed two officers, a day after the Islamic State ...

US strikes kill 50 Qaeda fighters in Syria: Monitor

US air strikes killed 50 Al-Qaeda militants and eight civilians, including children, in northern Syria on Tuesday, the ...

Medan immigrant detention center detains 16 Somalians

The Medan Immigrant Detention Center has detained 16 Somalian citizens who were found roaming in Belawan City, North ...

Half South Asia`s girls marry before 18: UN

Nearly half of all girls in South Asia marry before they turn 18, according to a United Nations report that lays bare ...