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Animal protection organization "For Paws" announced today that the Kavan elephant, the only elephant whose poor living conditions in Pakistan caused a global protest, will move to a Cambodian shelter next November.Four Paws, in charge of the transportation, said that travel arrangements are underway that include preparing a suitable ...

Indian Foreign Service officer Devyani Uttam Khobragade has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Cambodia, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. "She is expected to take up the assignment shortly," the MEA said in a release. Here's all you need to know about the diplomat whose ...

Indian Foreign Service officer Devyani Uttam Khobragade has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Cambodia, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. Khobragade, a 1999-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is currently serving as a joint secretary in the ministry at its headquarters in ...

Draconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing “unchecked powers” to authoritarian regimes across Asia, human rights experts are warning. In a report out today, privacy analysts warn that “extreme measures and unchecked powers” brought in to tackle Covid-19 could become permanent features of government across the ...

An African giant pouched rat has been honored for his work detecting landmines in Southeast Asia with a gold medal from an international veterinary charity.The U.K. charity PDSA named Magawa this year's gold medal recipient for "life-saving devotion to duty, in the location and clearance of deadly landmines in Cambodia."The 7-year-old rodent ...

The elephant "Kavan" has attracted the sympathy of animal rights activists, after it has been living alone in a Pakistan zoo since losing its partner in 2012. The activists were able to obtain permission from the Pakistani courts to allow its transfer to Cambodia to live in a better ...

An elephant who has become a cause celebre for animal rights activists around the world will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions, the animal welfare group helping with the case said Saturday.Dubbed the `world’s loneliest elephant’ by his supporters, Kaavan has languished ...

Kaavan being fed at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad. Photographer: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images Islamabad (AP) -- An elephant who has become a cause celebre for animal rights activists around the world will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred ...

Beijing’s main international airport on Thursday began receiving international flights again from a limited number of countries considered at low risk of coronavirus infection.Passengers flying in from Cambodia, Greece, Denmark, Thailand, Pakistan, Austria, Canada and Sweden must have first shown a negative coronavirus test before boarding, city government spokesperson ...