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Asia

6 Jan
North Korea acknowledged its latest missile launch early on Thursday, a day after South Korean authorities first reported it. Pyongyang's state media called it a "hypersonic missile" and said that it...
5 Jan
The second ASEAN-Korea Music Festival - ROUND 2021, will be held online on 9 January. The festival will be hosted by the Korean broadcasting company KBS and sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Korea...
5 Jan
Thousands of passengers were being held Wednesday on a cruise ship in Hong Kong for coronavirus testing .The ship was ordered to return after nine passengers were identified as close contacts of an infected...
5 Jan
The New Year’s first tuna auction was held at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, early on Wednesday morning. The top bid at the event was a bluefin tuna from Oma, Aomori prefecture, weighing in at 211...
5 Jan
A landslide at a construction site in southwestern China has killed 14 people and injured three others, media reports said Tuesday. Xinhua News Agency said more than 1,000 people joined the overnight rescue...
5 Jan
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday vowed to speed up coronavirus vaccine booster shots, secure imported oral drugs and reorganise medical facilities to respond to the fast-spreading omicron variant...
5 Jan
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an pledged to provide food, health care and other necessities for the roughly 13 million people under an almost two-week old lockdown.  The Xi'an...
4 Jan
A powerful earthquake struck Chinese Taipei on Monday evening, shaking buildings in the capital, Taipei, and across much of the northern part of the island.  Tiles could be seen missing from the damaged...
4 Jan
Indian health authorities Monday began vaccinating teens in the age group of 15 to 18, as more states started to enforce tighter restrictions to arrest a new surge stoked by the infectious omicron variant....
3 Jan
An unidentified person crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea, South Korea's military said. The person was earlier spotted by surveillance equipment at the eastern portion of the border, known...

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