Asia Pacific
Japan wins skateboarding’s maiden gold, Tunisian swimmer stuns superpowers
apan bagged skateboarding’s first ever gold medal and notched a surprise win in the pool on Sunday, in a day of high ...Pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics open in low-key ceremony without fans
The Tokyo Olympics were declared open in an eerily empty stadium on Friday after defying a year’s pandemic delay and lingering coronavirus ...Slimmed-down ceremony to open pandemic-hit Tokyo Games
The Tokyo Olympics opens on Friday with a ceremony reflecting a Games like no other, walking a fine line between celebrating the ...Opening ceremony director fired on Tokyo Games eve over Holocaust joke
Tokyo Olympics organisers have fired the opening ceremony director on the eve of the event after reports emerged of a past joke ...Central China’s Henan province swamped after heaviest rain in 1,000 years
Large swathes of China’s central Henan province were under water on Wednesday, with at least a dozen people dead in its capital ...US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries ...At least 17 killed in Philippines troop plane crash
At least 17 people were killed when a Philippines Air Force plane carrying troops crashed on landing in the south of the ...North Korea sees ‘propaganda value’ in slimmer Kim, analysts say
A rare mention in North Korean state media of leader Kim Jong Un’s health could be intended to head off speculation and ...First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 – study
The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case ...Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino dies at age of 61
Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino, the son of two of the Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons, died in a Manila hospital on ...














