-- 2021-10-26 17:37:56
Southeast Asian leaders sharply criticised Myanmar's junta as a regional summit opened on Tuesday without a representative from the country, following its top general's exclusion for ignoring a peace...
-- 2021-10-26 15:46:06
Stuck in a village in southern India for nine months and unable to return to his job in Saudi Arabia, Sugathan PR is hoping the World Health Organisation will approve the Indian COVID-19 shot Covaxin,...
-- 2021-10-25 22:52:06
Saudi Arabia's crown prince launched a Middle East Green Initiative on Monday which he said aimed to invest 39 billion riyals ($10.4 billion) to reduce carbon emissions in the region and protect the e...
-- 2021-10-25 19:15:41
Thailand will allow vaccinated travellers from Bangladesh without quarantine in designated tourism areas starting on November 1 under a programme called ‘Sandbox Scheme’. On spending a...
-- 2021-10-25 14:20:12
President Xi Jinping vowed on Monday that China would always uphold world peace and international rules, amid concerns expressed by the United States and other countries over the nation's increasing a...
-- 2021-10-25 10:12:09
New Zealand reported 109 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Monday, the bulk of them in its largest city, Auckland, as the country saw its second-worst day of daily infections since the pandemi...
-- 2021-10-24 17:03:03
China has given complete doses of COVID-19 vaccines to about 75.6 per cent of its population as of Oct 23, a government official said on Sunday. Some 1.068 billion people have now been inoculated wit...
-- 2021-10-24 15:32:37
China passed a law on Saturday to strengthen border protection amid a protracted standoff with India, worries about spillover effects from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the spread of COVID-19 fro...
-- 2021-10-24 10:40:37
North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests were "concerning and counterproductive" for efforts to reduce tensions, and Pyongyang should instead engage in talks, the US envoy for North Korea said on...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-24 10:34:43
Turkey to expel US envoy and nine others, Erdogan says Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine o...
-- 2021-10-23 21:44:52
Afghanistan is heading towards economic collapse that risks spiralling the country into a new political crisis, Sweden's minister for international development cooperation warned on Saturday, reports...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-23 14:32:02
The Indian embassy in Iran recently celebrated the arrival of 1.0 million doses of Covaxin, a COVID vaccine developed in India by the pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech. Bangladesh, Myanmar and Ira...
-- 2021-10-23 11:53:58
The Red Cross on Friday urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis. Afgh...
-- 2021-10-21 21:40:00
Afghanistan, India and Pakistan were among 11 countries singled out by US intelligence agencies on Thursday as being "highly vulnerable" in terms of their ability to prepare for and respond to environ...
-- 2021-10-21 18:11:05
More than 150 people have died in flooding across India and Nepal in recent days, as heavy late monsoon rains triggered flash floods, destroyed homes, crops and infrastructure and left thousands stran...
-- 2021-10-20 16:16:38
At least 43 people have died and another 30 are missing after three days of heavy rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in Nepal, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Basanta Kunwar sa...
-- 2021-10-20 14:57:15
The Taliban praised suicide bombers who died during the war against the former government and its Western allies and offered their families sums of cash and promises of land, the movement's interior m...
-- 2021-10-20 14:15:42
At least 43 people have died and another 30 are missing after three days of heavy rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in Nepal, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Basanta Kunwar sa...
-- 2021-10-20 13:30:19
At least 13 Syrian military personnel were killed in a roadside bomb attack, as their bus crossed a bridge in central Damascus during early morning rush hour on Wednesday, state television reported....
-- 2021-10-20 12:46:18
At least 34 people have died following days of heavy rains in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, the state's chief minister said, as rescuers continued work to free those stranded on Wednesday. A...
-- 2021-10-20 12:01:09
North Korea test-fired a new, smaller ballistic missile from a submarine, state media confirmed on Wednesday, a move that analysts said could be aimed at more quickly fielding an operational missile s...
-- 2021-10-20 11:11:34
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is aiming to ease COVID-19 restrictions on bars and restaurants next week as infections continue to decline, the Jiji news service said on Wednesday. The easing will...
-- 2021-10-19 20:46:09
Indonesia is urging developed countries to commit to their pledge to provide financing for poorer countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at this month's UN climate conference, President Joko Wid...
-- 2021-10-19 20:41:52
Buying vegetables at a small market on the outskirts of Mumbai, Shubhangi Patil laments the recent rapid rise in the cost of everyday essentials, from cooking oil to sugar and now onions, a basic ingr...
-- 2021-10-19 19:04:40
The education of more than 800 million children across Asia has been disrupted due to school closures since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, says a new report. More than 27 million c...
-- 2021-10-19 17:18:21
India has delayed committing supplies of vaccine to the COVAX global sharing platform, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday, a day after one of its key backers, the WHO, said the agency could not "cut...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-19 10:43:43
Myanmar's military government has freed hundreds of political prisoners from the notorious Insein prison, including Aung San Suu Kyi's party spokesman and a famous comedian Zarganar, local media repor...
-- 2021-10-18 18:41:44
A fire at Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery on Monday injured several workers but operations were unaffected, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said. The atmospheric residue desulphurisatio...
-- 2021-10-18 15:19:00
Thailand will stop using the COVID-19 vaccine of China's Sinovac when its current stock finishes, a senior official said on Monday, having used the shot extensively in combination with Western-de...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-18 10:40:44
At least 25 people died in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in south-western India as rescuers scoured muddy debris for survivors and the military flew in emergency supplies. Residents...
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