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AP 2021-02-16 17:41:51
Malaysia's government will repatriate 1,200 Myanmar migrants next week despite a military coup in their home country, but has assured that they will not include minority Muslim Rohingya refugees or th...
AP 2021-02-16 17:11:42
When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world’s second-most populous country. Infections climbed dramatically for months...
AP 2021-02-16 16:42:30
An official says an overcrowded bus has driven off a bridge and into a canal in central India, killing at least 40 people. District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Choudhary says six people were rescued af...
REUTERS 2021-02-16 16:40:07
Myanmar’s military on Tuesday guaranteed that it would hold an election and hand power to the winner, denying that its ouster of an elected government was a coup and denouncing protesters for in...
-- 2021-02-16 12:22:37
Amid a downward trend in the world's Covid-19 trajectory, new variants have raised worry about corona re-infections despite widespread vaccination. According to Johns Hopkins University, the global c...
Reuters 2021-02-16 11:56:52
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised on Tuesday to a woman who alleged she was raped in the country’s parliament by an unnamed colleague, and promised a thorough investigat...
REUTERS 2021-02-16 11:26:29
The United Nations special envoy has warned Myanmar’s army of “severe consequences” for any harsh response to protesters demonstrating against this month’s coup in a call with...
-- 2021-02-15 17:21:40
Myanmar security forces opened fire to disperse protesters in the city of Mandalay on Monday. The number of casualties was not clear till filing the report, according to Reuters. A member of a stude...
Reuters 2021-02-15 13:11:10
China is cracking down on vaccine-related crimes, making dozens of arrests over the production and distribution of fake coronavirus vaccines, price gouging and illegal inoculations, the official Xinhu...
REUTERS 2021-02-15 12:19:25
Myanmar’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been remanded in custody until Wednesday, not Monday as previously thought, her lawyer told media, as protesters began gathering again to demand he...
-- 2021-02-15 10:22:11
Indian police have arrested a woman accused of editing and circulating a document tweeted by climate activist Greta Thunberg that authorities say is anti-government. Swedish climate activist Thunberg...
-- 2021-02-15 09:50:16
Security forces in Myanmar deployed armoured vehicles in major cities on Monday two weeks after the military overthrew the elected government and detained its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi sparking the big...
Reuters 2021-02-14 21:30:55
Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India on Sunday, a week after the disaster struck, bringing the death toll to 50 with more than 15...
BBC 2021-02-14 18:04:40
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland to go into lockdown after the discovery of three new local cases of Covid-19. The measures will last three...
-- 2021-02-14 17:41:57
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar’s major cities for a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations on Sunday, after a fearful night as residents formed patrols and the arm...
-- 2021-02-14 10:45:18
Youth activists protesting against laws forbidding insult to Thailand’s powerful king briefly clashed with police on Saturday after draping Bangkok’s Democracy Monument in red cloth. Prot...
-- 2021-02-13 22:12:11
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings and triggering widespread blackouts, but there appeared to be no major damage...
-- 2021-02-13 21:15:10
Myanmar's army on Saturday ordered the arrest of seven well-known backers of protests against this month's coup, including Min Ko Naing, who has been a leading pro-democracy activist since bloodily su...
REUTERS 2021-02-13 19:04:10
At least 400,000 Yemeni children under five years old could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic...
Kyodo News 2021-02-13 18:16:12
Amid ongoing protests in Myanmar against the Feb 1 coup, citizens have begun to take China to task, condemning its silence about the overthrow of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and its "ba...
REUTERS 2021-02-13 13:07:48
Opponents of Myanmar's military coup sustained mass protests for an eighth straight day on Saturday as continuing arrests of junta critics added to anger over the detention of elected leader Aung San...
Reuters 2021-02-13 11:45:39
Supporters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi clashed with police on Friday as hundreds of thousands joined nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations in defiance of the military junta’s cal...
REUTERS 2021-02-13 10:53:34
Water levels in the Mekong River have fallen to a “worrying level” in part due to outflow restrictions from Chinese hydropower dams upstream, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on Frid...
REUTERS 2021-02-13 10:28:25
A group of 50 businesses in Myanmar on Friday criticised new cyber laws proposed by the junta, saying they would contravene human rights, violate data privacy and curtail innovation. Some of the worl...
Reuters 2021-02-13 08:37:17
A strong earthquake struck Tajikistan on Friday and the tremors were felt as far away as north India and Pakistan, witnesses said. Many residents ran out of their homes, but no major damage was report...
-- 2021-02-12 20:39:35
As many as 14 people were killed and more than 36 others injured in a major explosion at a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday, officials said. The explosion occu...
REUTERS 2021-02-12 19:43:28
Rescuers used heavy machinery to remove slush clogging a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas on Friday in a search for 35 people missing since a Feb 7 flash flood, though hopes of finding anyone alive were...
-- 2021-02-12 19:30:02
As many as 11 people were killed and 36 others injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday, officials said. The explosion occurred this after...
-- 2021-02-12 18:46:07
A government health panel on Friday night approved Japan's first COVID-19 vaccine, made by Pfizer Inc, NHK national television reported, as the country races to control the third wave of infections be...
-- 2021-02-12 18:25:28
The United States on Friday called for other UN member states to join it in holding Myanmar coup leaders to account, including through targeted sanctions such as those it imposed on Thursday. "We ask...
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