Asia

A new exhibition charts Bombay’s passage through the centuries via paintings, photographs and prints. Source link

Yashoda and Krishna, painted by Raja Ravi Varma, beat a record set by an MF Husain work last year. Source link

Min Aung Hlaing presided over his last military parade in Myanmar before he takes up the role of president. The army commander led the catastrophic coup that tipped the country into civil war in 2021. He has now promised to turn his regime into a civilian administration with him as president. Source link

The parliament, sitting for the first time since the coup, is filled with his loyalists. With the armed forces guaranteed one quarter of the seats, and the military’s own party, the USDP, winning nearly 80% of the remaining seats in an election which was tilted heavily in its favour, this was a preordained outcome. More…

Lawyers for Naveed Akram had argued his mother, brother and sister live in ‘constant fear’. Source link

Anthony Albanese used a rare TV address to tell Australians that the “months ahead may not be easy” amid the global effects of the war. Source link

His efforts appear to have worked. China’s Foreign Ministry said the two were making “new efforts towards advocating for peace.” The joint statement agreed that dialogue and diplomacy were “the only viable option to resolve conflicts”, and it called for waterways, including the blockaded strait, to be protected. Source link

Stanford said the papers, which mentioned the Tiananmen Massacre, would be banned if returned to Beijing. Source link

Japan was, until recently, the only G7 country to not recognise the legal concept of joint custody. Source link

The Thai city now ranks as one of the world’s most polluted, as fires engulf the surrounding countryside. Source link