Seven killed as strong quakes strike southern Philippines
10 October 2025, 14:08 PM
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Myanmar junta strike kills 40 at festival protest: residents
8 October 2025, 03:43 AM
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Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 37
5 October 2025, 03:39 AM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17, dozens still missing
4 October 2025, 13:51 PM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 14
4 October 2025, 05:44 AM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 13
3 October 2025, 18:37 PM
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Myanmar's reclusive general turns jet-setter in quest for election backing
3 October 2025, 16:00 PM
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91 people possibly still under collapsed Indonesian school: official
1 October 2025, 04:47 AM
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UN warns Myanmar conflict blocking Rohingya return
30 September 2025, 15:15 PM
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Argentina court urged to include Arakan Army atrocities in Rohingya genocide case
3 September 2025, 13:03 PM
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Thaksin’s daughter named PM candidate
Thailand’s main opposition Pheu Thai party yesterday confirmed the daughter of billionaire ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra as one of its candidates to be prime minister in the kingdom’s upcoming election.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Pakistan SC orders provincial votes
Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered that elections in two provinces should go ahead by May 15 despite government reluctance to hold the votes now as it struggles with an economic crisis and a political challenge from the opposition.
4 April 2023, 18:00 PM
8 civilians killed in Myanmar
Eight civilians including children were killed in an air strike on a village in northwest Myanmar, according to a human rights group, ethnic minority rebels and media, the latest violence as the ruling military battles to consolidate power.
1 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Act against ex-PM Imran
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif yesterday appealed to parliament to act against predecessor Imran Khan over accusations that his party was involved in violence that erupted when police tried to arrest him for alleged corruption.
28 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Girls’ education activist arrested by Taliban
The founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said yesterday.
28 March 2023, 18:00 PM
North Korea unveils new nuclear warheads
North Korea unveiled new, smaller nuclear warheads and vowed to produce more weapons-grade nuclear material to expand the country’s arsenal, state media KCNA said yesterday, as a US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for military drills.
28 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Nearly 200 land in Indonesia’s Aceh
At least 184 Rohingya refugees, including many women and children, landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province yesterday, officials said, after they were dropped at sea by boat and made to swim ashore.
27 March 2023, 18:00 PM
No let-up in crackdown, then polls: junta chief
Myanmar’s junta chief, flanked by tanks and missile launchers, vowed no let-up in a crackdown on opponents and said yesterday elections would be held, weeks after the military conceded it did not control enough territory to allow a vote.
27 March 2023, 18:00 PM
EU, Germany reach deal to phaseout fossil fuel cars
The European Union and Germany yesterday said they had struck a deal after a dispute over the planned phaseout by 2035 of the sale of cars using fossil fuels.
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Russian support for Myanmar junta ‘destabilising’ SE Asia: US envoy
Russia’s backing for Myanmar’s military rulers is unacceptable and destabilising, with its supply of weapons helping to fuel a conflict that has become a catastrophe for the country, a top US official said on Thursday.
24 March 2023, 18:00 PM
US to announce more sanctions against Myanmar junta
The United States will announce further sanctions against entities inside Myanmar in the coming days, a senior State Department official said
22 March 2023, 07:04 AM
Lanka seeks 10-yr debt moratorium
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking a 10-year moratorium on its foreign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said yesterday on the eve of a desperately needed $2.9 billion IMF bailout.
20 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Dozens of Imran’s supporters arrested
Police in Pakistan have arrested dozens of supporters and aides of former prime minister Imran Khan in raids in two cities as part of a crackdown on those involved in recent clashes with the security forces, Khan’s party and police said yesterday.
20 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Xi eyes to play peacemaker’s role
President Xi Jinping heads to Russia today hoping to deliver a breakthrough on Ukraine as China seeks to position itself as a peacemaker.
19 March 2023, 18:00 PM
North Korea says 800,000 people enlist to fight ‘US imperialists’
More than 800,000 young North Koreans have volunteered to join the army to fight “US imperialists”, state media said Saturday, days after Pyongyang test-fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile.
18 March 2023, 18:00 PM
At least 22 people killed in suspected massacre at Myanmar monastery
At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.
17 March 2023, 13:19 PM
Pakistan Taliban kill two policemen
Two Pakistani policemen were killed while guarding teams collecting census data in separate attacks claimed by the local Taliban, police said yesterday.
14 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Japanese man, 87, granted retrial
Tokyo’s High Court yesterday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer, dubbed the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, nearly six decades after he was convicted of murder.
13 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Myanmar rebels, junta trade blame
Myanmar’s junta and anti-coup fighters yesterday traded accusations over the killing of around 30 people who were sheltering in a monastery.
13 March 2023, 18:00 PM
China’s Xi spotlights nat’l security
China’s Xi Jinping yesterday emphasised the need to strengthen national security, in his first address since being handed a historic third term as the country’s president.
13 March 2023, 18:00 PM