China's foreign minister Wang Yi arrived on the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati. The planned four-hour visit by Wang Yi was his second stop on an eight-nation tour that comes amid growing concerns about...
Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for “Tomb of Sand,” a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine...
South Korea and the US fired a Hyunmoo-II ballistic missile and an Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missile into the East Sea on Wednesday.The South Korean military explained the response was aimed at...
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was proclaimed the next president of the Philippines by a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. The Senate and House of Representatives also declared that his separately elected vice...
Authorities from Myanmar and Thailand held a meeting on the reopening of Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge No.1 in Tachileik of Shan State (East).
The meeting was held at Mae Sai border check-point in Thailand...
Much of downtown Shanghai remained closed on Tuesday as a new round of mass testing was ordered in the latest anti-virus measures taken there.Jing'an district in central Shanghai entered a three-day "...
South Korea and japan said North Korea test-launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile and two shorter-range weapons into the sea on Wednesday. A South Korean Presidential spokesperson strongly...
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan and Australia need to further strengthen their own partnership to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific.His remarks came during the bilateral meeting between...
Speaking at the Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference in Bali, Indonesia, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Monday said that they need to do more, especially for the most vulnerable, to incorporate...
A ferry carrying more than 130 people caught fire in the northeastern Philippines on Monday. The fire rapidly spread from the engine room to the upper passenger deck of the M/V Mercraft 2 while it was approaching...