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-- 2021-11-04 20:45:36
A zoo in Indonesia is breeding Komodo dragons in an effort to save the world's largest lizards from extinction, with climate change posing new dangers for the fearsome creatures, reports Reuters. ...
-- 2021-11-04 11:51:49
An August US drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians was not caused by criminal negligence but by a series of errors, including not noticing a child minutes before the strike took place, an inv...
-- 2021-11-03 18:47:02
China flagged on Wednesday it is targeting a 1.8 per cent reduction in average coal use for electricity generation at power plants over the next five years, in a bid to lower greenhouse gas emissions....
-- 2021-11-03 18:34:59
Restaurant owner Antoine Haddad has been in business for over 35 years but says he is running out of hope as Lebanon struggles with one of the deepest financial crises of modern times. The Lebanese p...
-- 2021-11-03 12:40:01
China's new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases spiked to a near three-month high and tighter curbs to contain the spread are expected in the capital Beijing ahead of a key gathering of the highest-ran...
-- 2021-11-02 18:34:07
Afghanistan's Taliban government said it would announce good news soon on older girls being allowed to go back to school, but urged the international community to help it fund the process as most exte...
-- 2021-11-02 18:15:28
Lebanon’s Daily Star, one of the leading English-language newspapers in the Arab world and Lebanon’s oldest, has folded following a years-long financial struggle. An email reviewed Tuesda...
-- 2021-11-02 16:41:19
At least two explosions followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan's biggest military hospital in Kabul, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday, reports Reuters. Interior ministry spokesman Qari Sa...
-- 2021-11-02 11:40:05
China and Russia are pushing the UN Security Council to ease sanctions on North Korea by reviving a 2019 attempt to remove a ban on Pyongyang's exports of statues, seafood and textiles and expanding i...
-- 2021-11-02 11:28:25
As Myanmar's military seeks to put down protest on the streets, a parallel battle is playing out on social media, with the junta using fake accounts to denounce opponents and press its message that it...
-- 2021-11-01 15:23:10
A 24-year-old man dressed as the Joker character from the Batman comics attacked passengers on a Tokyo train line on Sunday evening. As many as 17 people were injured as they headed for Hallo...
-- 2021-11-01 11:46:08
Hundreds of vaccinated foreign tourists are scheduled to arrive in Bangkok on Monday, the first wave of visitors to Thailand in 18 months who will not have to undergo quarantine for the coronavirus, R...
-- 2021-11-01 11:36:16
A declassified US intelligence report saying it was plausible that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a laboratory is unscientific and has no credibility, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman...
-- 2021-10-31 19:37:15
The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has faced a cyber attack that has disrupted its services since Saturday. The Pakistani government-owned multinational commercial bank is likely to restore its serv...
-- 2021-10-31 14:40:18
Gunmen who identified themselves as Taliban attacked a wedding in eastern Afghanistan to stop music being played, killing at least two people and injuring 10 others, officials say. A Tali...
-- 2021-10-31 14:11:52
Taliban's reclusive supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, made a rare public appearance in the southern city of Kandahar, Taliban sources said on Sunday, belying widespread rumours of his death, Reu...
-- 2021-10-30 18:54:40
The Philippines on Saturday reported its highest single-day coronavirus deaths, mostly due to the reclassification of previous cases, the health ministry said, according to Reuters. In a bulletin, th...
-- 2021-10-30 14:58:43
Beijing's Universal Studios theme park boosted health monitoring and tested all staff after it was informed by health authorities that close contacts of COVID-19 cases visited the resort on Oct. 24, i...
-- 2021-10-29 17:53:24
Win Htein, a senior aide to Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday on charges of high treason, media and one of his family members said. Win Htein, 79...
-- 2021-10-29 16:42:02
Each morning, Adulwitch Tangsupmanee brings a cart of crispy pork belly to a run-down cinema in Bangkok's Chinatown and sets up the same street-food stall his internationally renowned father ran for n...
-- 2021-10-29 16:15:17
From printing coupons as replacement cash to breeding ornamental black swans to eat, North Korea is being forced to innovate to handle economic woes and food shortages as anti-pandemic border lockdown...
-- 2021-10-29 16:12:23
The overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 245 million amid the global race to vaccinate masses against the infectious disease. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case coun...
-- 2021-10-29 15:10:22
Afghanistan's Taliban government is pressing for the release of billions of dollars of central bank reserves as the drought-stricken nation faces a cash crunch, mass starvation and a new migration cri...
-- 2021-10-28 13:46:16
Singapore is looking into an "unusual surge" of 5,324 new infections of Covid-19, the city-state's health ministry said, its highest such figure since the beginning of the pandemic, as beds in intensi...
-- 2021-10-28 09:14:59
India's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it was concerned about a new law passed by China last week to strengthen border protection amid a protracted military standoff between the two Asian gia...
-- 2021-10-27 20:22:30
India's Adani Ports said on Wednesday it was abandoning plans to build a container terminal in Myanmar, weeks after applying for a US licence for the project, saying it believed it did not violate san...
-- 2021-10-27 20:09:01
Thousands of demonstrators from a banned Pakistani Islamist group clashed with police on Wednesday, killing and wounding several people from both sides, police and the group said. The clash broke out...
-- 2021-10-27 16:22:55
Taiwan is not seeking to get into an arms race with China but does need to defend itself and will not submit to pressure, its defence ministry said in a report to parliament on Wednesday, according to...
-- 2021-10-27 14:50:04
The Japanese government on Wednesday downgraded its overall assessment of regional economies for the first time in 18 months, with a global chip crunch and supply chain disruptions adding pressu...
-- 2021-10-26 19:02:38
Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has denied a charge of incitement to cause public alarm, media reported on Tuesday, in her first court testimony since a February coup plunged the country into...
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