Loading...
The Financial Express

Search results for: Asia

India to open 50 new fuel stations in Sri Lanka

India to open 50 new fuel stations in Sri Lanka

-- 2022-08-08 19:06:06

Sri Lanka has given approval for India's Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) to open 50 new fuel stations, a company official said on Monday, as part of efforts to reduce severe shortages that have cr...

China announces fresh military drills around Taiwan

China announces fresh military drills around Taiwan

-- 2022-08-08 14:13:15

China's military announced fresh military drills on Monday in the seas and airspace around Taiwan - a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week's vis...

Myanmar ambassador to China dies

Myanmar ambassador to China dies

-- 2022-08-08 13:30:59

Myanmar's ambassador to China died suddenly on Sunday in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, according to an obituary in Myanmar state media and diplomatic sources in Beijing. The obituary for...

Hong Kong cuts Covid hotel quarantine to three days

Hong Kong cuts Covid hotel quarantine to three days

BBC 2022-08-08 10:49:28

Hong Kong will ease its Covid hotel quarantine requirements for people arriving from overseas, Chief Executive John Lee said on Monday. From Friday, those arriving in the city will have to stay at de...

Taiwan is not part of US, Chinese foreign minister says

Taiwan is not part of US, Chinese foreign minister says

-- 2022-08-07 20:59:51

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that Taiwan is not part of the United States but Chinese territory, in the latest diplomatic invective against US policy since a visit to Taiwan by US H...

Israel, Palestinians agree Egypt-brokered truce in Gaza

Israel, Palestinians agree Egypt-brokered truce in Gaza

-- 2022-08-07 20:52:09

Israel and a Palestinian group have agreed to a truce in Gaza from Sunday evening as mediated by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend-long pounding of Palestinian targets by Israel triggered longer-ra...

China to conduct 'regular' military drills east of Taiwan Strait median line

China to conduct 'regular' military drills east of Taiwan Strait median line

-- 2022-08-07 17:29:42

The Chinese military will from now on conduct "regular" drills on the eastern side of the median line of the Taiwan Strait, Chinese state television reported on Sunday, citing a commentator. The medi...

Sri Lanka asks China to defer arrival of ship after India objects

Sri Lanka asks China to defer arrival of ship after India objects

-- 2022-08-07 13:44:58

Sri Lanka has asked China to defer the planned visit of a Chinese survey ship to the island country after an objection from India, a government source told Reuters on Sunday, Reuters reports. T...

Palestinian rockets reach west of Jerusalem on third day of Gaza fighting

Palestinian rockets reach west of Jerusalem on third day of Gaza fighting

-- 2022-08-07 12:25:17

Sirens sounded and explosions were heard on the western outskirts of Jerusalem on Sunday, signalling longer-range Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel as it pressed air strikes in the Gaza...

Chinese and Taiwanese warships eye each other as drills due to end

Chinese and Taiwanese warships eye each other as drills due to end

-- 2022-08-07 11:07:27

Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high-seas "cat and mouse" on Sunday, hours before the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit...

Lack of trust, political will shackling Myanmar peace process, ASEAN envoy says

Lack of trust, political will shackling Myanmar peace process, ASEAN envoy says

-- 2022-08-06 19:39:39

A lack of trust and political will is stifling Myanmar's peace process and the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN will keep shunning its ruling generals, unless they engage opponents and make concrete progres...

Taiwan says Chinese aircraft, ships carry out attack simulation exercises

Taiwan says Chinese aircraft, ships carry out attack simulation exercises

-- 2022-08-06 10:41:36

Chinese aircraft and ships carried out attack simulation exercises towards Taiwan's main island on Saturday morning, Taiwan's defence ministry said in a statement, Reuters reports....

US calls China's military action over Taiwan unjustified, Beijing sanctioning Pelosi

US calls China's military action over Taiwan unjustified, Beijing sanctioning Pelosi

-- 2022-08-05 18:57:47

China's firing of missiles during military drills around Taiwan was an unjustified escalation, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as Beijing said it would impose sanctions on House of Represen...

China halts climate, military ties over Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

China halts climate, military ties over Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

-- 2022-08-05 18:26:43

China on Friday said it is cancelling or suspending dialogue with the United States on a range of issues from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for a visit this...

Indian opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka detained 

Indian opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka detained 

-- 2022-08-05 18:15:23

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka were detained by police during the Congress party's protest against inflation and rising unemployment in Delhi on Friday.  Rahul, Pr...

Taiwan tensions spill over into ASEAN meetings this week

Taiwan tensions spill over into ASEAN meetings this week

-- 2022-08-05 18:01:25

Tensions over developments in Taiwan overshadowed an Asian meeting of foreign ministers on Friday, diverting attention at a forum that had been expected to focus on efforts to end the crisis in Myanma...

China halts high-level military dialogue with US, suspends other cooperation

China halts high-level military dialogue with US, suspends other cooperation

-- 2022-08-05 17:35:22

China is halting cooperation with the United States in a number of areas, including dialogue between senior-level military commanders and climate talks, in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's...

China military drills are significant escalation, says Blinken

China military drills are significant escalation, says Blinken

-- 2022-08-05 16:26:28

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, represent a "significant escalation" an...

Flash floods kill over 500 people in Pakistan last month

Flash floods kill over 500 people in Pakistan last month

-- 2022-08-05 16:04:12

Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among...

China says Japan's Taiwan stance justifies the 'wrongdoers'

China says Japan's Taiwan stance justifies the 'wrongdoers'

REUTERS 2022-08-05 14:41:35

Japanese officials' recent statements on the current tensions in the Taiwan Strait were an attempt to justify the "wrongdoers", Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday during...

China's military drills near Taiwan disrupt key shipping lanes

China's military drills near Taiwan disrupt key shipping lanes

-- 2022-08-05 14:21:13

China's military exercises in the waters around Taiwan have prompted some ships to navigate around the Taiwan Strait and give the island a wide berth, disrupting key trading routes for cargo and...

13 people killed, 35 injured in Thai night club fire

13 people killed, 35 injured in Thai night club fire

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-05 10:13:55

Thirteen people were killed and 35 injured after a fire broke out on Friday at a night club in Thailand's Chonburi province, southeast of the capital Bangkok, a police official said. Police Colonel W...

Japan protests after Chinese missiles land in its economic zone

Japan protests after Chinese missiles land in its economic zone

-- 2022-08-04 21:09:45

Five ballistic missiles fired by China appear to have landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Japanese defence minister Nobuo Kishi said on Thursday, part of military exercises launched by Ch...

New evidence shows how Myanmar's military planned the Rohingya purge

New evidence shows how Myanmar's military planned the Rohingya purge

-- 2022-08-04 18:57:07

In mid-2017, in a remote area of Myanmar, senior Burmese military commanders held secret talks about operations against the minority Rohingya Muslim population. They discussed ways to insert spies int...

China fires multiple missiles around Taiwan 

China fires multiple missiles around Taiwan 

-- 2022-08-04 18:40:55

China fired multiple missiles around Taiwan on Thursday, launching unprecedented military drills a day after a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the self-ruled island that B...

Al Qaeda will pursue attacks undeterred by Zawahiri loss, experts say

Al Qaeda will pursue attacks undeterred by Zawahiri loss, experts say

-- 2022-08-04 17:15:25

The US Hellfire missiles that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri dealt al Qaeda a powerful symbolic blow, but its far-flung branches are tactically independent and will not be deterred from plotting more attack...

How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs

How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs

-- 2022-08-04 17:08:13

Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-...

Taiwan says will strengthen self-defence capabilities

Taiwan says will strengthen self-defence capabilities

-- 2022-08-04 15:21:12

Taiwan will strengthen self-defence capabilities and closely coordinate with the United States and like-minded countries, foreign ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou told a news conference on Thursday, whe...

US, Iran to resume nuclear talks; US expectations 'in check'

US, Iran to resume nuclear talks; US expectations 'in check'

-- 2022-08-04 13:04:15

Top Iranian and US officials will resume talks in Vienna this week on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, officials from both countries said on Wednesday, though they played down chances of a breakt...

Pelosi vows support to denuclearise North Korea

Pelosi vows support to denuclearise North Korea

-- 2022-08-04 12:51:43

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her South Korean counterpart vowed on Thursday to support efforts to maintain a strong deterrence against North Korea and achieve its denuclearisat...