Tag: #asia

JAKARTA - The authorities in Indonesia have tightened border curbs, extended quarantine and limited movement on strategic toll roads, in ...

Japan ’s Princess Aiko celebrated her coming-of-age on Wednesday with a bland statement that observers say was deliberately calculated to ...

MANILA - Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte's preferred successor, Senator Christopher "Bong" Go, announced on Tuesday (Nov 30) he was dropping out of ...

A court in military-ruled Myanmar deferred on Tuesday (Nov 30) the first verdicts in the trial of ousted leader Aung ...

MANILA — The Philippines launched on Monday (Nov 29) an ambitious drive to vaccinate nine million people against Covid-19 in three ...

YANGON - Myanmar's navy seized a boat carrying 228 Rohingya on Monday (Nov 29) and arrested all on board, the country's ...

BANGKOK  - Thailand was among the first countries in Asia to reopen for foreign arrivals, and it is seeing a slow ...

Myanmar's military has arrested 18 medics for providing treatment to patients who were members of "terrorist organisations", a state-run newspaper ...

SEOUL - Little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the centre of a ...

COLOMBO — At least six people have died and around ten are missing after a ferry they were travelling in ...