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Reuters 2021-05-25 10:43:10
India on Tuesday posted 196,427 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, its lowest daily rise in infections since April 14, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by 3,511. The country's overall case...
-- 2021-05-25 10:13:48
Indian government leaders appealed to farmers to call off a mass protest this week for fear it could prove a viral "super-spreader" event as the country's overall death toll from COVID-19 crossed 300,...
-- 2021-05-25 09:30:03
Australia is to close its embassy in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where the Australian troops are scheduled to withdraw later this year. According to a joint media statement on Tuesday, Aust...
REUTERS 2021-05-24 22:55:12
Myanmar's state television on Monday aired pictures of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time since a military coup nearly four months ago, showing her first in-person court appearance sinc...
-- 2021-05-24 20:16:37
Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has expressed concern over the prevailing threat of Covid-19 in the country and said: "We will be wiped out if we can't control the virus now." In an address to t...
REUTERS 2021-05-24 19:45:01
Indian authorities began evacuating thousands of people from coastal areas in two states on Monday as a powerful cyclone bore down on the country's east coast, complicating efforts to control the COVI...
-- 2021-05-24 18:28:16
Indian authorities began evacuating thousands of people from coastal areas in two states on Monday as a powerful cyclone bore down on the country's east coast, complicating efforts to control the COVI...
-- 2021-05-24 18:24:27
A Nepali government official said on Monday that many foreign climbers were continuing their attempts to summit Mount Everest despite reports of a COVID-19 outbreak at the base camp of the world's tal...
REUTERS 2021-05-24 17:26:36
Myanmar may not accept hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to Bangladesh from the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing gave the indication in his fi...
Reuters 2021-05-24 14:17:29
Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing on Monday for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in a Feb1 coup, her lawyer told Reuters...
-- 2021-05-24 11:00:16
India crossed another grim milestone Monday of more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections that exploded with fury has shown signs of easing. The milesto...
Reuters 2021-05-24 10:51:46
Fighters opposed to Myanmar's military junta fought with troops in the east of the country on Sunday and claimed to have killed more than 13 members of the security forces, captured four and razed a p...
Reuters 2021-05-24 10:30:46
Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on S...
-- 2021-05-24 10:04:35
Twenty-one runners have died after extreme weather struck a long-distance race in north-western China. High winds and freezing rain hit participants in the 100km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Ye...
Reuters 2021-05-24 09:44:24
Japan opened two mass inoculation centres on Monday as the country races to vaccinate most of its elderly population against Covid-19 before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. The centres in Tokyo and...
-- 2021-05-24 09:21:05
India's capital New Delhi will start relaxing its strict coronavirus lockdown next week if new cases continue to drop in the city, its chief minister said on Sunday. The nation on Sunday reported 240...
-- 2021-05-23 12:11:03
More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanm...
REUTERS 2021-05-22 21:44:58
India's COVID-19 outbreak has stabilised in parts of the country, a government official said, but deaths rose by 4,194 on Saturday and infections were spreading in rural areas where public health serv...
-- 2021-05-22 20:32:31
An expert climbing guide said Saturday that a coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, giving the first comprehensive estimate amid official Nepalese...
-- 2021-05-22 19:24:36
Nepal plunged into fresh political turmoil on Saturday as President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved parliament and fixed general elections in November amid a worsening COVID-19 outbreak. The surprise a...
-- 2021-05-22 17:35:29
Efforts are underway to resume tripartite talks among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar on Rohingya repatriation even though the negotiation with Myanmar remains halted for a long time due to the Covid-19...
REUTERS 2021-05-22 16:37:27
Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home and would appear in court in a few days, in his first interview since overthrowing her in a Feb 1 coup....
Reuters 2021-05-22 11:09:46
India's crowded financial hub Mumbai won plaudits this year for tackling the second wave of the pandemic better than any other metropolis in the country - and it is gearing up to get ahead of a potent...
-- 2021-05-22 10:48:15
The first convoys of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza, hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants came into effect. Thousands of Palestinians returned home to scenes of...
-- 2021-05-21 21:44:40
China has proposed setting up an international forum on vaccine cooperation for vaccine-developing and producing countries, companies and other stakeholders to explore ways of promoting fair and equit...
-- 2021-05-21 20:43:41
Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and fired tear gas at Palestinians after Friday prayers hours despite signing a ceasefire agreement with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of Palestin...
UNB 2021-05-21 19:01:20
UNICEF urgently requires $164 million to procure oxygen and testing supplies, medical equipment, personal protective equipment and infection prevention and control material to help save lives amid a d...
REUTERS 2021-05-21 17:43:35
A bomb blast killed six people on Friday at a pro-Palestinian rally in southwest Pakistan and wounded 13, including the leader of a hardline religious party that organised the event, police said, but...
BBC 2021-05-21 16:58:37
India's states should declare an epidemic following a rise in deadly "black fungus" cases, the country's health authorities have said. The normally rare infection, called mucormycosis, has a mortalit...
Reuters 2021-05-21 13:54:18
Myanmar's junta-appointed election commission will dissolve Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party (NLD) because of what it said was fraud in a November election, news outlet Myanmar N...
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