World / Asia

SHANGHAI: China's tough zero-COVID measures remain essential to defeat the pandemic and buy time to improve vaccination rates and develop new treatments, senior...

Seoul: South Korea's new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, said on Tuesday that North Korea's weapons programmes pose a threat but that he is ready...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as a fresh surge in Asia’s fastest inflation intensified public protests, triggering violence between the government’s...

JAKARTA: Indonesia has identified 15 cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin after reporting three deaths among children, the country's health minister Budi...

SHANGHAI: A Chinese city has opened an investigation into a factory owned by automaker BYD over allegations that emissions from the plant were...

Sri Lankan energy companies said on Monday they were running low on stocks of liquid petroleum gas mainly used in cooking, as shortages...

Taipei: Buildings shook briefly in Taipei on Monday as a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's eastern coast, but there were no immediate...

SHANGHAI: China's sea levels reached their highest on record last year, swelled by rising water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and polar...

MANILA: Polls opened in the Philippines on Monday in the country's most divisive presidential election in decades, with the prospect of a once-unthinkable...

Tokyo: An Elon Musk tweet saying Japan would "eventually cease to exist" without a higher birthrate set off a flood of sarcasm and...

MANILA: The Philippine police and military said on Sunday they were on high alert as last-minute preparations continued for the country's general election,...

COLOMBO: The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is considering granting $100 million in emergency support to Sri Lanka, the country's finance ministry said...

KATHMANDU: Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world's highest...

SHANGHAI: Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China's biggest city...

Hong Kong formally confirmed John Lee as its next top leader after an uncontested election, solidifying an era of more direct Chinese political...

Beijing/Shanghai: Millions of Beijing residents queued up for another round of COVID-19 tests on Sunday, in what is becoming a daily routine as...

Thailand may start rolling out its first locally-developed Covid-vaccine that deploys the same technology used by Pfizer Inc. by the end of this...

SHANGHAI: Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China's "closed-loop" management system to prevent the spread of COVID...