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World / Asia

Suicide bomber kills nine soldiers in west Pakistan 31 Aug 2023 - 10:32 pm
File photo for representation only. (Reuters)
China's Xi to skip G20 summit, says EU official 31 Aug 2023 - 09:43 pm
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Former Thai Premier Thaksin submits petition for royal pardon 31 Aug 2023 - 07:39 pm
(FILES) Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets his supporters as he returns from self-exile at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)
Myanmar's High Court declines to hear Suu Kyi's appeals in 5 cases  31 Aug 2023 - 07:09 pm
File photo: Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attends the joint news conference of the Japan-Mekong Summit Meeting at the Akasaka Palace State Guest House in Tokyo, Japan October 9, 2018. (Franck Robichon/Pool via Reuters)
Indian doctors save baby after she stops breathing mid-flight 31 Aug 2023 - 04:06 pm
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Philippines rejects China’s expansive sea claims in latest map 31 Aug 2023 - 03:37 pm
Peninsula
Chinese cities ease mortgage rules to shore up housing 31 Aug 2023 - 12:59 pm
This aerial photo taken on October 31, 2021 shows buildings of China's developer Country Garden Holdings in Zhenjiang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Photo by STRINGER / AFP
Filipino peace advocate among winners of Asian humanitarian prize 31 Aug 2023 - 12:59 pm
An undated handout photo of Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, Women in Peace-Building Pioneer from Philippines (L). (Photo by Handout / Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation / AFP)
Hong Kong braces for Super Typhoon Saola to hit Friday 31 Aug 2023 - 12:05 pm
People sit along a promenade next to Victoria harbour in Hong Kong on August 31, 2023, a day before the arrival of Typhoon Saola. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)
Rain and wrong address delayed firefighters reaching Philippine factory blaze, leaving 15 dead  31 Aug 2023 - 11:08 am
Firemen direct a vehicle after a fire at a house in Quezon City, suburban Manila on August 31, 2023. Photo by AFP
Japan requests record $53 bn defence budget 31 Aug 2023 - 10:50 am
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters about North Korea's ballistic missile launches at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on August 31, 2023. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP
Thousands protest over 'abductions, disappearances' in Bangladesh 30 Aug 2023 - 05:27 pm
Family members, and relatives of victims of
Malaysia joins India in protest against China's land claim in a newly published map 30 Aug 2023 - 05:07 pm
A man rides past an illuminated hoarding with the G20 logo displayed along a street in New Delhi on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP)
India allows rice exports to Singapore, sidestepping sales curbs 30 Aug 2023 - 04:54 pm
File Photo: Labourers unload rice bags from a supply truck at India's main rice port at Kakinada Anchorage in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, on September 2, 2021. (Rajendra Jadhav/Reuters)
Japan PM eats 'safe and delicious' Fukushima fish 30 Aug 2023 - 04:43 pm
This handout photo taken and received from the Cabinet Public Relations Office via Jiji Press on August 30, 2023 shows Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida posing as he eats seafood from Fukushima prefecture at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. (Photo by Handout / various sources / AFP)
Kyrgyzstan moves to ban TikTok citing risk to children 30 Aug 2023 - 04:20 pm
Peninsula
Pakistan ex-PM Khan's detention extended over leaked documents 30 Aug 2023 - 12:14 pm
Security personnel stand guard outside the Attock prison, where former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is sentenced, in Attock on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Abdul Majeed / AFP)
Indian teen chess wizard Pragg given hero's welcome 30 Aug 2023 - 11:51 am
India's chess grandmaster and silver medallist Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, responds to a television media personnel as he is welcomed upon his return from the FIDE Chess World Cup in Baku, at the Chennai International airport in Chennai, on August 30, 2023. (Photo by AFP)