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on May 25, 2022 at 5:12 pm

A court in Delhi sentences Yasin Malik to life imprisonment after convicting him of funding terrorism. […]

on May 25, 2022 at 10:48 am

Australia players raise concerns about visiting Sri Lanka in June and July but the tour will go ahead. […]

on May 25, 2022 at 10:05 am

SEOUL - North Korea appears to have conducted an experiment with a detonation device in preparation for its seventh nuclear test, South Korea's deputy national security adviser Kim Tae-hyo said on Wednesday (May 25). Kim also told a media briefing the North's missile test earlier in the day seemed to have involved […]

on May 25, 2022 at 9:59 am

SEOUL - South Korea convened a National Security Council (NSC) meeting over North Korea's missile launch on Wednesday (May 25) and "strongly condemned" the North's latest weapons test as a "grave provocation", the presidential office said. Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea's new president, presided over the meeting and […]

on May 25, 2022 at 6:35 am

It came hours after the US leader left Asia following a trip where he vowed to deter North Korea. […]

on May 25, 2022 at 5:16 am

NEW DELHI - T.L. Wali, a 66-year-old lawyer in Delhi's high court, had been looking forward to retirement. But with India's living costs soaring, he is now forced to dip into his savings and will need to keep working longer just to pay for medicine, travel and household expenses. "I can't even think about […]

by Resty Woro Yuniar, Hadi Azmi on May 25, 2022 at 4:16 am

Anthony Albanese’s victory in Australia’s federal election may lead to stronger links with Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, analysts say, although they cautioned that there were major challenges facing the new prime minister. He remarked not long before the election that it was important to grow ties with […]

on May 25, 2022 at 2:18 am

TOKYO — Japan scrambled jets after Russian and Chinese warplanes neared its airspace on Tuesday (May 24), when Tokyo was hosting the leaders of the Quad grouping of countries that includes the United States, Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said. Tokyo conveyed "grave concerns" to both Russia and China through […]

on May 25, 2022 at 1:50 am

SEOUL - North Korea reported no new deaths among fever patients for a second consecutive day, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Wednesday (May 25), a day after it said the country's first confirmed coronavirus outbreak was being stably managed. The Covid-19 outbreak, which the isolated […]

on May 25, 2022 at 1:11 am

SEOUL - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday (May 25), Seoul’s military said, just hours after US President Joe Biden left the region following a trip in which he agreed to boost measures to deter the nuclear-armed state. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said […]

on May 24, 2022 at 11:39 pm

Obesity is spreading rapidly and experts warn of a health emergency unless it's tackled urgently. […]

on May 24, 2022 at 3:36 pm

The US president meets key Asia allies to discuss China's influence and differences over Russia's invasion. […]

by Ching Shi Jie on May 24, 2022 at 10:51 am

This couple paid an expensive price after their son recently knocked over a life-sized Teletubbies sculpture at a toy store in Hong Kong. In an interview with Commercial Radio Hong Kong on Tuesday (May 24), the five-year-old boy's father, who only wanted to be known as Cheng, said that he visited the […]

on May 24, 2022 at 9:30 am

TAIPEI — Billed a Covid-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is now battling a record wave of infections as it eases restrictions that had kept outbreaks at bay to start life with the virus. For the whole of 2021, Taiwan reported less than 15,000 locally transmitted cases. […]

on May 24, 2022 at 9:21 am

GUWAHATI, India — Flash floods and landslides in India's northeast Assam state killed at least 25 people and displaced over 650,000 from their homes in the past 10 days, officials said on Tuesday (May 24). Heavy monsoons are a yearly occurrence in Assam, resulting in flooding and landslides which force […]

on May 24, 2022 at 7:56 am

Locals have to take shelter in squalid conditions, camping on roadsides with little food and water. […]

on May 24, 2022 at 6:47 am

Malaysia has become the latest country in Asia to cut food exports to keep prices down at home. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 11:59 pm

A man says he lost millions, and then was arrested for trying to talk to crypto boss Do Kwon. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 11:42 pm

Stays in China made up only 1% of Airbnb's revenue for the last few years, a source said. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 11:03 pm

Now a taxi driver in Washington DC, Khalid Payenda once oversaw a multi-billion dollar budget. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 10:21 pm

Four-time major champion Naomi Osaka is not sure if she will play Wimbledon after ranking points were stripped from the event. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 8:07 pm

The Chinese ride-hailing giant will quit Wall Street less than twelve months after its US market debut. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 5:19 pm

Australia's election has ushered in political pioneers and interesting firsts across the parliament. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 11:02 am

The US leader warned China against invading the island, likening such a move to Russia's war in Ukraine. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 4:25 am

Two days after his election win, Anthony Albanese will fly to meet the leaders of US, India and Japan. […]

on May 23, 2022 at 12:40 am

The sighting has raised alarms over networks that smuggle exotic animals to India. […]

on May 22, 2022 at 11:07 pm

Companies supplying major manufacturers fail to meet promises to share land, joint BBC investigation finds. […]

on May 21, 2022 at 11:03 pm

The BBC goes on patrol with the Taliban's "moral police", whose job it is to enforce hard-line rule. […]

on May 21, 2022 at 2:38 pm

A veteran politician, Anthony Albanese will lead the first Labor government in almost a decade. […]