Asia Pacific
Desperate hunt for missing Indonesian submarine as oxygen set to run out
Rescue aircraft and ships scoured the sea north of Bali on Friday as the hunt for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 ...Taiwan begins to plan for zero emissions by 2050
Taiwan has begun to assess how it can reach zero emissions by 2050, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Thursday, after green groups ...Indonesian submarine goes missing north of Bali
Indonesia’s military said it was searching for a submarine with 53 crew aboard after losing contact with the vessel during naval exercises ...Xi to attend Biden’s climate change summit in first meeting of two leaders
China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the ...China’s Xi calls for fairer world order as rivalry with U.S. deepens
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for a rejection of hegemonic power structures in global governance, amid growing tensions between Washington ...Families reunite as Australia-New Zealand ‘travel bubble’ begins
Hundreds of passengers from Australia began arriving in New Zealand airports on Monday after authorities reopened borders, a pandemic milestone that allows ...New Zealand’s Willis, Adams eye medals at fifth Olympics
Middle distance runner Nick Willis will become the first male New Zealander to compete on the track at five Olympics after being ...Tokyo Olympics must be ‘reconsidered’ due to Japan’s failure to contain pandemic – report
Japan’s inability to contain the COVID-19 pandemic means that plans to hold the Olympics in Tokyo should be reconsidered, health experts wrote ...Tigray’s humanitarian crisis worsens, no Eritrean exit: UN
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of ...Japan to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea after treatment
Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station into the sea, the government ...














