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REUTERS 2022-12-27 10:03:53
Taiwan will announce on Tuesday a plan to extend compulsory military service to one year from the current four months, according to a senior government official, as the island deals with rising Chines...
-- 2022-12-26 18:40:54
The possible sinking of a boat in recent weeks with 180 Rohingya Muslims on board could make 2022 one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the community, a UN agency said, as refugees...
-- 2022-12-26 18:21:36
In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; a...
-- 2022-12-26 18:08:33
The fuel consumption in Sri Lanka has plunged by 50 per cent in the last months of 2022, compared to the first few months of the year, the state-owned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CP...
-- 2022-12-26 17:49:43
A group of 58 Rohingya men at sea for more than a month landed at a fishing village in Indonesia’s Aceh Besar district early on Sunday, according to the local police chief. Villagers who saw th...
-- 2022-12-26 17:00:41
Five North Korean drones crossed into South Korea on Monday and South Korea responded by scrambling jets and attack helicopters and opening fire to try to shoot down the North Korean aircraft, the Sou...
-- 2022-12-26 14:50:10
Nepal's new government, led by a former Maoist rebel commander, will try to balance ties with its immediate neighbours China and India for the economic growth of one of the world's poorest countries,...
REUTERS 2022-12-26 14:12:35
India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been admitted to the AIIMS hospital in New Delhi, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Monday. "Nothing serious. She is fine," the...
REUTERS 2022-12-26 09:30:17
Forty-three Chinese air force planes crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line in the past 24 hours, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said on Monday, as Beijing continues its military activities close to the C...
-- 2022-12-25 22:17:34
Three big international aid agencies including Save the Children said on Sunday they were suspending their humanitarian programmes in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban-run administration's order...
-- 2022-12-25 20:12:26
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended what he said was his country’s position of impartiality on the war in Ukraine on Sunday and signalled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the co...
-- 2022-12-25 19:41:02
Three major international aid groups on Sunday suspended their operations in Afghanistan following a decision by the country's Taliban rulers to ban women from working at non-governmental organisation...
-- 2022-12-25 18:41:28
A former Maoist guerrilla who led a decade-long insurgency against Nepal's Hindu monarchy will take over as prime minister in alliance with the main opposition after last month's election returned a h...
-- 2022-12-25 14:49:04
The eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang is battling around 1 million new daily Covid-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday. Despite a...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-25 10:29:52
Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and...
-- 2022-12-25 10:18:48
Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign NGOs to stop female employees from working, in a move the United Nations said would hit humanitarian operations just...
REUTERS 2022-12-25 09:14:51
China's National Health Commission, which for the past three years or so has published daily COVID-19 case figures for the country, said it will no longer release such data from Sunday. "Relevant COV...
-- 2022-12-24 20:53:52
Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry l...
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2022-12-24 17:42:17
Hidden in the basement of a private home in the Afghan capital Kabul, gym instructor Laila Ahmad takes a group of women through a clandestine exercise class - the windows are blacked out, there is no...
-- 2022-12-24 15:22:12
Iran’s Supreme Court has accepted the appeals of two protesters sentenced to death due to flaws in investigating their cases, the country's judiciary said on Saturday. "The Supreme Court accept...
-- 2022-12-24 14:20:16
China expressed anger on Saturday at a new US defence authorisation law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan, while Taipei cheered it for helping boost the island's security, reports Reuters. C...
REUTERS 2022-12-24 14:16:51
India has mandated a Covid-19 negative test report for travellers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand, the health minister said on Saturday. Passengers from those countrie...
REUTERS 2022-12-24 13:08:09
Japanese prosecutors have decided to indict the man suspected of shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media reported on Saturday. The decision foll...
-- 2022-12-24 12:55:27
Shanghai authorities urged residents to stay at home this weekend, seeking a toned-down Christmas in the nation's most populous city as Covid-19 rages nationwide after tough curbs were lifted. A bran...
REUTERS 2022-12-24 12:10:11
Al Qaeda has released a 35-minute recording the group claims was narrated by its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was believed to have been killed in a US raid in August 2022, SITE intelligence group sai...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 09:50:39
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71 per cent of New Delhi Television Ltd NDTV.NS as the company's founders have decided to sell most of their shares, four months aft...
-- 2022-12-23 18:21:20
Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration said on Thursday it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code, in a decision...
-- 2022-12-23 18:10:40
A truck carrying Indian soldiers skidded down a steep slope into a gorge in India’s remote northeast on Friday, killing at least 16, the Indian Army said in a statement. Four other soldiers wer...
-- 2022-12-23 17:59:15
India is planning to make a Covid-19 negative test report mandatory for passengers arriving from countries with a high number of cases, the country's health minister said during an interview with broa...
-- 2022-12-23 17:21:55
A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad on Friday killed one police officer and injured several others, police and the interior ministry said. "Our initial info...
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