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Asia

31 Jan
Favorable wind and sea conditions kept an oil slick away from beaches in eastern Thailand on Sunday. Emergency workers were seen on Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong removing sand contaminated by oil which had washed...
31 Jan
North Korean state media released a report early Monday acknowledging the country's latest missile test, which was detected by its neighbours on Sunday. The missile was a Hwasong 12-type ground-to-ground...
30 Jan
ASEAN launched the Gender Mainstreaming Strategic Framework on January 27th. With support from the USAID, the ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights...
30 Jan
Vietnam capital Hanoi prepared for Lunar New Year celebrations on Sunday as vendors set out their bright red wares. Taking place on February 1, the same as Chinese New Year, it is an important festival for...
30 Jan
Astronomers in Western Australia have discovered a bright radio object in the Milky Way that emitted very powerful bursts of radio waves every 18 minutes for up to a minute each time Studies of data from 2018...
30 Jan
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters Sunday that North Korea fired one ballistic missile eastward. He said firings of North Korea's high intensity ballistic missiles violate the...
30 Jan
The governor of a province in eastern Thailand on Saturday declared a state of emergency to assist in the efforts to clean up a beach hit by an oil slick. Some 20-50 tons of oil is estimated to have leaked...
30 Jan
Athletes from the United States and Canada arrived in Beijing on Friday ahead of the Winter Olympics opening in the Chinese capital next week. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV released images of the US and...
30 Jan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release on January 29th, congratulating Cambodia for assuming the ASEAN Chairmanship 2022.  It stated that Myanmar, being a member of ASEAN, will be extending full...
29 Jan
The funeral for Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped spread the practice of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, took place Saturday in Hue, Vietnam. He died aged...

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