Likewise, China on Saturday cut its annual economic growth target to its lowest level in decades as Beijing struggles to reverse a slump at a time when Russia's war on Ukraine is pushing up oil prices and...
China is raising its defence spending in 2022 by 7.1% to $229 billion, up from a 6.8% increase the year before. Saturday's announcement marks a continuation of the robust spending that has given China an...
Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said on Saturday a new missile launch by North Korea was "absolutely unacceptable". The North fired at least one ballistic missile, according to Kishi. It was...
Slowly but steadily, life in South Asia is returning to normal, and people hope the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind them.
Experts are optimistic the most recent wave driven by the omicron variant,...
South Koreans began early voting Friday ahead of next week's presidential election. Leading liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung from the ruling Democratic Party and main conservative candidate Yoon Suk Yeol from...
Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics torch relay started with Paralympic flames from nine locations including the UK's Stoke Mandeville, birthplace of the Paralympics, Beijing and Zhangjiakou, at Beijing's...
Two leading conservatives in South Korea’s presidential race unified behind one of them Thursday in a last-minute political deal that could boost their chances of victory in next week’s election.
In...
U Than Aung Kyaw, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations attended the Forty-First Meeting of High - Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration (41st HLTF-EI) which was...
Millions of Filipinos had their forehead marked with an ash cross Wednesday in observance of Ash Wednesday, after a two-year ban on the lent tradition due to the coronavirus pandemic. A priest, minister, or...
Traffic jams and outdoor crowds are back in the Philippine capital and 38 other cities and provinces Tuesday after officials allowed businesses and public transport to operate at full capacity as COVID-19 cases...