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Flash floods kill two people in Thailand, storm moves for Myanmar

Flash floods kill two people in Thailand, storm moves for Myanmar

-- 2020-08-03 19:12:05

Flash floods killed at least two people and swept through hundreds of houses in northern Thailand, authorities said after tropical storm Sinlaku dumped heavy rains on 18 provinces over the weekend, re...

Landslides kill 10 in Nepal as heavy rains take toll in South Asia

Landslides kill 10 in Nepal as heavy rains take toll in South Asia

-- 2020-08-03 17:34:03

Heavy rain in Nepal triggered landslides on Monday that killed eight labourers at a construction site and two members of a family, taking the toll in floods and landslides to 177 since late May. Else...

Public transport can bounce back from COVID-19: ADB report

Public transport can bounce back from COVID-19: ADB report

-- 2020-08-03 17:27:10

Public transport must adapt to a “new normal” in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and adopt technologies that will render it more green and resilient to future disas...

Vietnam says early August 'decisive' in containing coronavirus

Vietnam says early August 'decisive' in containing coronavirus

-- 2020-08-03 16:49:22

Vietnam is in the midst of a “decisive” fight against the novel coronavirus, the prime minister said on Monday, with the focus on Danang city where infections have appeared in four factori...

China suspends extradition agreement with New Zealand

China suspends extradition agreement with New Zealand

Reuters 2020-08-03 16:24:25

China said on Monday it will suspend its extradition agreement with New Zealand in response to Wellington suspending its existing extradition treaty with Hong Kong. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman...

Iran cover-up of coronavirus deaths revealed by data leak

Iran cover-up of coronavirus deaths revealed by data leak

BBC 2020-08-03 15:07:47

The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found. The government's own records appear to show almost 42,000...

With a heavy hand, India rides out Kashmir's year of disquiet

With a heavy hand, India rides out Kashmir's year of disquiet

REUTERS 2020-08-03 13:54:46

The scars of last summer remain in Soura, an enclave that became a symbol of Kashmir’s resistance to India’s central government a year ago on Wednesday. Coils of concertina wire, remnants...

India reports 52,972 new coronavirus infections

India reports 52,972 new coronavirus infections

-- 2020-08-03 11:48:20

India reported 52,972 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1.8 million, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Monday. With 771 new deaths, the...

Islamic State attack leads to mass jailbreak in Afghanistan

Islamic State attack leads to mass jailbreak in Afghanistan

Reuters 2020-08-03 11:18:17

Islamic State militants were battling Afghan security forces in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday morning, after an overnight assault on a prison that led to a mass jailbreak, officials said. T...

India Home Minister Amit Shah tests positive for COVID-19

India Home Minister Amit Shah tests positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-08-02 17:36:32

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has tested positive for coronavirus, the minister tweeted on Sunday afternoon. He said he is getting admitted to a hospital on doctors’ advice, reports hindustimes...

Philippines to update Covid-19 strategy as health workers seek 'timeout'

Philippines to update Covid-19 strategy as health workers seek 'timeout'

Reuters 2020-08-02 16:17:18

The Philippines’ health department vowed on Sunday to update its game plan against Covid-19 within a week and sought to beef up the healthcare workforce in the capital Manila, where medical fron...

Indian police crackdown on illegal liquor suppliers after 86 die

Indian police crackdown on illegal liquor suppliers after 86 die

-- 2020-08-02 15:50:09

Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday, after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol this week in the northwestern state of Pu...

Thousands demand Netanyahu quit over coronavirus, corruption

Thousands demand Netanyahu quit over coronavirus, corruption

-- 2020-08-02 12:49:01

Thousands of people took to the streets of central Jerusalem and staged demonstrations demanding resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday. The demonstration in central Jerusalem,...

Mainland China reports 49 new Covid cases for Aug 1

Mainland China reports 49 new Covid cases for Aug 1

Reuters 2020-08-02 09:09:39

China reported 49 cases of the new coronavirus in the mainland for August 1, up from 45 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Sunday. Of the new infections, 30 were in the far western re...

Ten crushed to death in Indian crane collapse

Ten crushed to death in Indian crane collapse

-- 2020-08-01 19:05:59

Ten people died on Saturday when a crane collapsed, trapping them underneath, at a state-run shipyard in the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, a port city and industrial center in the Indian stat...

'Losing battle': Philippine medical staff urge new Covid-19 lockdowns

'Losing battle': Philippine medical staff urge new Covid-19 lockdowns

-- 2020-08-01 18:34:46

More than a million Philippine doctors and nurses, saying the country was losing the fight against Covid-19, urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday to reimpose strict lockdown in and around Manil...

UAE initiates first nuclear power plant in Arab world

UAE initiates first nuclear power plant in Arab world

-- 2020-08-01 17:53:27

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the initiation of a nuclear power plant, the first of its kind in any Arab country. The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and UAE Representative...

Philippines confirms nearly 5,000 new Covid-19 cases, largest single-day increase

Philippines confirms nearly 5,000 new Covid-19 cases, largest single-day increase

-- 2020-08-01 17:09:00

The Philippines on Saturday reported 4,963 additional coronavirus infections, the largest single-day jump on record, reports Reuters. In a bulletin, the health ministry said total infections have rea...

Australian, PNG police arrest five over cocaine haul

Australian, PNG police arrest five over cocaine haul

-- 2020-08-01 12:46:21

A small plane which crashed shortly after takeoff on a flight from a remote airstrip in Papua New Guinea to Australia last week was overloaded with more than 500 kg (1,100 lb) of cocaine, police said...

10 die drinking sanitiser after Indian state shuts liquor shops

10 die drinking sanitiser after Indian state shuts liquor shops

-- 2020-08-01 10:30:51

At least 10 people have died after drinking alcohol-based sanitiser after liquor shops were closed in a village in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The village of Kurichedu has been placed in lock...

Sheikh Hasina at helm, India-Bangladesh economic cooperation sets a new milestone

Sheikh Hasina at helm, India-Bangladesh economic cooperation sets a new milestone

Hindustan Times 2020-07-31 21:22:17

The start of commercial goods shipments by rail container between India and Bangladesh over the last week is a game changer because it brings speed, scale and sustainability to the bilateral trade and...

Out of hospital, Saudi King tweets Eid greetings

Out of hospital, Saudi King tweets Eid greetings

Reuters 2020-07-31 16:20:52

Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, tweeted Eid al-Adha greetings early on Friday, shortly after leaving hospital. The Saudi King, custodian of Islam’s holiest si...

Iran's Khamenei rejects talks with US

Iran's Khamenei rejects talks with US

Reuters 2020-07-31 15:14:34

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out negotiations with the United States over Tehran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes on Friday and urged Iranians to resist U...

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first

Reuters 2020-07-31 13:50:11

Australia will force US tech giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will b...

ADB, HSBC to finance $1.2b in trade to boost supplies

ADB, HSBC to finance $1.2b in trade to boost supplies

-- 2020-07-30 20:45:44

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the HSBC have launched a programme to support up to $1.2 billion a year in trade by companies in Asia and the Pacific producing goods crucial to the ongoing fight...

China says US wants a new Cold War

China says US wants a new Cold War

-- 2020-07-30 17:20:24

China’s ambassador to London said on Thursday that the United States was trying to trigger a new Cold War with the Communist state because it was searching for a scapegoat ahead of the US presid...

Myanmar urged to release imprisoned Rakhine student leaders

Myanmar urged to release imprisoned Rakhine student leaders

-- 2020-07-30 15:31:55

Fortify Rights on Friday said Myanmar authorities should immediately release Myat Hein Tun and Kyaw Lin, two student leaders of the Rakhine Students’ Union imprisoned for protesting internet res...

Indonesia reports 1,904 new coronavirus cases, 83 deaths

Indonesia reports 1,904 new coronavirus cases, 83 deaths

-- 2020-07-30 15:18:36

Indonesia reported on Thursday 1,904 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s total tally to 106,336 cases, Health Ministry data showed. The number of deaths in the Southeast Asian na...

Covid-19 strikes back in virus-free Vietnam

Covid-19 strikes back in virus-free Vietnam

-- 2020-07-30 14:14:00

Vietnam has had one of the world’s best records in containing the coronavirus despite bordering China, its biggest trading partner, where the virus was first reported. But after more than three...

Coronavirus surges in Asia bring warnings over complacency

Coronavirus surges in Asia bring warnings over complacency

REUTERS 2020-07-30 13:43:58

Spikes in novel coronavirus infections in Asia have dispelled any notion the region may be over the worst, with Australia and India reporting record daily infections on Thursday, Vietnam fretting over...