Asia Pacific
Protests as Japan honours slain ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
With flowers, prayers and a 19-gun salute, Japan honoured slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday at the first state funeral ...North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile into sea
North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Sunday, ahead of planned military drills by South ...Myanmar beauty queen in Thai airport limbo, fears arrest at home
A beauty queen who spoke out against Myanmar’s military rulers was stranded at Thailand’s international airport for a third day on Friday, ...Kyrgyzstan says death toll from border conflict rises to 36
Kyrgyzstan said on Sunday its death toll from the border conflict with Tajikistan has risen to 36 people, with 129 wounded in ...Typhoon Nanmadol bears down on Japan’s Kyushu island
Typhoon Nanmadol bore down on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu on Sunday with the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warning of gales ...Japan urges evacuations as ‘unprecedented’ super typhoon approaches
The Japan Meteorological Agency urged residents to evacuate parts of the southern island of Kyushu on Saturday, ahead of a large and ...Singapore outlines financial services overhaul with eye on green finance boom
Singapore announced plans on Thursday to overhaul its financial services industry by 2025 in a bid to cement its position in a ...End of COVID pandemic is ‘in sight’ -WHO chief
The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said ...Hundreds evacuated in west Indonesia after magnitude 6.1 earthquake
About 200 people evacuated to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck islands in western Indonesia on Sunday, causing some ...Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from western Himalayan area
Indian and Chinese troops have begun disengaging from the Gogra-Hotsprings border area in the western Himalayas, both sides said, two years after ...














