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-- 2020-10-20 13:45:49
Insurgents from western Myanmar on Monday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping last week of three ruling party candidates in conflict-torn Rakhine state, and demanded the release of detained stud...
REUTERS 2020-10-20 11:21:21
The Indian army said on Monday that it had captured a Chinese soldier after he strayed across a contested de facto border in the western Himalayan region where both countries have amassed thousands of...
-- 2020-10-19 21:14:22
At least half of India’s total 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a India's federa...
-- 2020-10-19 16:23:47
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi on Sunday as part of a campaign to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan, who they accuse of being installed by...
FE Online Report 2020-10-19 11:30:18
The Unites States’ higher engagement with Bangladesh in recent times is part of its attempt to find partners for its Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), especially aimed at countering China, according...
-- 2020-10-18 18:45:55
The Chinese government has warned Washington it may detain Americans in China in response to the US Justice Department’s prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars. Chinese officials h...
-- 2020-10-18 18:04:19
Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Bangkok on Sunday, defying a ban on protests for the fourth day with chants of "down with dictatorship" and "reform the mona...
-- 2020-10-18 15:16:42
Saudi Arabia allowed its citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform prayers in one of the most holy religious sites in Islam, Al-Haram mosque in Mecca, for the first time in seven months, st...
Reuters 2020-10-18 13:35:17
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Sunday of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after it was agreed. The truce agreed on...
-- 2020-10-18 12:08:34
A landslide early on Sunday left at least 22 soldiers missing in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri, the government said, as the Southeast Asian country battles the worst flooding in years....
-- 2020-10-17 20:15:57
India’s coronavirus infections rose by another 62,212 cases over the previous day and a local media report said on Saturday that the government had begun identifying about 300 million people who...
-- 2020-10-17 16:57:42
Hundreds of Thais chanted at protests that popped up across Bangkok on Saturday in defiance of a crackdown on three months of demonstrations aimed at the government and the powerful monarchy, reports...
-- 2020-10-17 16:42:16
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday accused the country’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current...
-- 2020-10-17 13:13:58
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party held a big early lead in New Zealand’s general election on Saturday, initial tallies showed after a campaign dominated by her handling of Covid...
-- 2020-10-15 17:15:56
Already on track to overtake the United States with the world’s most novel coronavirus infections, India is bracing for a surge of cases in coming weeks as it heads into its main holiday season...
-- 2020-10-15 17:10:31
President Sooronbai Jeenbekov resigned on Thursday after days of unrest following a disputed election, saying he wanted to prevent clashes between security forces and protesters who have demanded his...
-- 2020-10-15 12:09:30
Thailand’s government banned protests and police arrested at least three protest leaders on Thursday in the face of escalating demonstrations targeting King Maha Vajiralongkorn as well as Prime...
REUTERS 2020-10-14 15:44:37
Russia made a new appeal to Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop fighting in and around the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh after the warring sides accused each other of fresh ceasefire violations on W...
REUTERS 2020-10-14 12:47:38
As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar began appearing on Facebook. Alarmed rights groups repo...
-- 2020-10-14 11:36:08
The globally confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surpassed 38 million on Wednesday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The total caseload from Covid-19 reached 38,0...
Reuters 2020-10-14 10:49:10
Indian authorities released Mehbooba Mufti late on Tuesday, the last major Kashmiri leader held since August last year when the federal government withdrew the troubled region’s autonomy and arr...
-- 2020-10-13 16:48:22
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday said he has presented documents to the king on his ‘strong and convincing’ parliamentary support to oust incumbent Prime Minister Muhyi...
Reuters 2020-10-13 14:07:03
Ethnic Armenian officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said 17 more servicemen had been killed in fighting with Azerbaijan, bringing its total military death toll to 542 since fighting broke out on September 2...
-- 2020-10-13 13:41:43
Nearly 40 people have died in Vietnam and Cambodia and scores more were missing, including rescuers, due to prolonged heavy rain and flash flooding as tropical storm Nangka edged towards the Vietnames...
REUTERS 2020-10-13 13:41:00
Asia-Pacific countries including Singapore, Australia, Japan and Thailand are gradually easing some international travel restrictions as coronavirus cases slow, in hopes of helping to revive their eco...
REUTERS 2020-10-13 12:26:01
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to shed tears at the weekend as he thanked citizens for their sacrifices, in the most striking demonstration yet of how he is relying on his “man of the...
Reuters 2020-10-12 21:22:26
Thailand has agreed to manufacture and supply AstraZeneca Plc's experimental COVID-19 vaccine in the southeast Asian country and other nations in the region, the British and Thai governments said on M...
-- 2020-10-12 15:04:33
Mumbai has faced a power outage due to grid failure on Monday morning with rail movement coming to a halt in several locations of India's financial capital. "Due to grid failure, the supply of power...
-- 2020-10-11 22:33:23
Turkey’s army presence in Qatar is an element of instability in the Gulf region, a senior official of the United Arab Emirates has said, adding that it contributed to negative polarisation. The...
-- 2020-10-11 19:15:15
A bus heading to a Buddhist temple collided with a train in central Thailand on Sunday, killing at least 20 people dead and injuring 30, authorities said. The accident took place on Sunday morning (l...
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