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China locks down a city amid new spike in Covid-19 cases

-- 2022-03-11 18:42:02

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9.0 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant...

Sri Lanka trials 5G technology

-- 2022-03-11 18:38:57

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata PLC has become the first company in South Asia to successfully trial "the most advanced" 5G Standalone (5G SA) network, local media reported on Friday. The latest breakthr...

Indian high-altitude supersonic object crashes in Pakistan territory

-- 2022-03-11 16:50:55

An unidentified high-altitude supersonic object, originating in India, crashed in Pakistani territory on Wednesday. Pakistan’s military has sought an explanation from India’s government o...

BJP wins big in India's largest state election

-- 2022-03-10 18:16:02

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won the country's most populous state with a big majority, according to the count on Thursday of a state assembly vote that could offer clues to the nationa...

BJP set to win India's biggest state election as vote counting starts

-- 2022-03-10 11:00:37

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party is set to keep control of India's most populous state on Thursday as officials begin the count in a state assembly vote that will offer clues to the national mood...

South Koreans go to polls to elect new president

-- 2022-03-09 12:01:42

South Koreans went to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president who will shape Asia's fourth-largest economy riven by gender and generational divides, face off with a confrontational North Korea...

Malaysia to allow entry of vaccinated tourists without quarantine from April

-- 2022-03-08 19:47:48

Malaysia will reopen its borders fully from April 1 and allow entry without quarantine for visitors vaccinated against Covid-19. Malaysia has since March 2020 maintained some of the tightest entry cu...

Arab women entrepreneurs defy odds with leap into sportswear

-- 2022-03-08 17:03:37

Nathaly Daou zigzags through an underground fabric store in Beirut, pulling out bolts of neon Lycra and patterned polyester before settling on a roll of white cotton. Finding affordable fabric for he...

Japan imposes new sanctions on Russians, bans exports of refinery equipment

-- 2022-03-08 11:06:50

Japan has frozen the assets of an additional 32 Russian and Belarusian officials and oligarchs following the invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday. The newly added sanctio...

Indonesia's Bali welcomes foreign tourists under relaxed coronavirus rules

-- 2022-03-07 18:26:52

Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Monday welcomed its first foreign tourists under relaxed coronavirus rules that no longer require arrivals to quarantine, part of a broader easing of curbs in the...

India's envoy to Palestine found dead at workplace

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-07 16:24:03

India's representative to Palestine, Mukul Arya, was found dead inside the Indian mission in Ramallah on Sunday. India's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar confirmed the news in a tweet, according to repo...

Australia will fund lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine, PM Morrison says

-- 2022-03-07 15:35:56

Australia has committed A$70 million ($50 million) to fund lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine, including missiles and ammunition, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday. Australia has shifte...

Chinese foreign minister says friendship with Russia is 'rock solid'

-- 2022-03-07 14:27:28

China's friendship with Russia is "rock solid" and the prospects for cooperation are very broad, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday. Cooperation between the two countries brings benefits...

Thailand bids to avoid 'population crisis' as birth rate crashes

-- 2022-03-07 11:30:03

Thailand is scrambling to encourage its people to have more babies to arrest a slumping birth rate, offering parents childcare and fertility centres, while also tapping social media influencers to sho...

New Zealand government expands sanctions on Russia over Ukraine invasion

-- 2022-03-07 11:03:55

New Zealand's government said on Monday it will introduce legislation to allow it to impose sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. When passed, it will be the first time New Zeal...

KSA lifts Covid restrictions on visitors

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-06 13:09:37

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has lifted coronavirus restrictions imposed in the country on Saturday – including social distancing and wearing masks outdoors, reports bdnews24.com quoting th...

Sydney braces for more rain as death toll from Australian floods rises

-- 2022-03-06 11:06:52

Sydney, Australia's most populous city that has been drenched in rain for days, braced for more heavy downpours on Sunday as the death toll from flooding across the country's east rose to 17. A wild...

Singapore announces sanctions against Russia over Ukraine attack

-- 2022-03-05 11:46:08

Singapore announced sanctions against Russia on Saturday that include four banks and an export ban on electronics, computers and military items, in a rare move by the Asian financial hub in response t...

Suicide bombing at Pakistan mosque kills 30

-- 2022-03-04 16:56:34

A suicide bombing at a mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 30 people, police and hospital officials said. The death toll is expected to ris...

Quad leaders agree not to allow Ukraine experience in Indo-Pacific-Japan, Australia

-- 2022-03-04 10:05:44

Leaders of the Quad grouping of countries - the United States, India, Australia and Japan - agreed on Thursday that what is happening to Ukraine should not be allowed to happen in the Indo-Pacific, th...

India considers relief for exporters hit by Ukraine crisis

-- 2022-03-03 17:54:05

India is considering guarantees of lenders' letters of credit and soft loans for exporters hit by a cash squeeze following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions imposed on Moscow, two peo...

Japan says it is ready to accept Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion

-- 2022-03-02 20:09:05

Japan is ready to take in Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday, adding that he had made the pledge during a phone conversation with his Polish counterpa...

Taliban announcement to restrict Afghans from leaving country draws concern from US, UK

-- 2022-03-01 13:24:17

The Taliban administration's announcement that it would restrict Afghans from leaving the country under certain circumstances drew concern from the United States and the United Kingdom this week amids...

Myanmar soldiers accused of taking over 80 children hostage

-- 2022-02-28 20:56:32

Myanmar soldiers took a group of civilians, including at least 80 children, hostage for two days during clashes with rebels before releasing most of them on Monday, according to media reports, a rebel...

Mamata offers "unconditional support" to Modi on Ukraine crisis

-- 2022-02-28 19:08:28

Burying political differences, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has offered her "unconditional support" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the crisis in Ukraine. In a letter to the Prime Ministe...

India sending four ministers to rescue its stranded citizens in Ukraine

-- 2022-02-28 17:05:44

India plans to send four senior ministers to Ukraine's border nations, a government source said on Monday, to help in the rescue of thousands of its citizens who remain trapped more than four days aft...

China urges calm after Putin's nuclear threat

-- 2022-02-28 15:01:27

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Monday that all sides should remain calm and avoid further escalation, after Russian President Vladimir Putin put his country's nuclear deterr...

North Korea resumes missile tests with first launch in a month

-- 2022-02-27 11:03:03

North Korea fired what could be a ballistic missile on Sunday, military officials in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first test since the nuclear-armed country conducted a record numb...

Australia flash floods kill seven as severe weather pummels Queensland

-- 2022-02-27 10:54:52

The death toll from flash flooding in Australia's northeast rose to seven on Sunday as a severe storm system pummelled the city of Brisbane and the southeast of the state of Queensland, Reuters report...

Australia to beef up military aid for Ukraine

-- 2022-02-27 09:51:15

Australia says it will fund the supply of weapons to Ukraine to help it fight Russian forces. The move comes days after the government in Canberra said it would only provide “non-lethal”...