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145 Indian students, studying in different medical colleges in the central Asian country, were brought back by the special flight. (Representational Image: PTI)

145 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan return home in AI special flight

All 145 passengers instructed to stay in institutional quarantine for next one week in their hometowns as per central government guidelines

30 Jul 2020 11:06 AM

Pedestrians wear face masks in the Kowloon-side Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong. (AFP)

4 arrested under Hong Kong security law for online posts

China, in justifying the new law, says issues such as separatism are a national security concern and, as such, fall under its purview

30 Jul 2020 10:15 AM

A group of supporters for plaintiffs celebrate, holding a banner which reads "Overall victory" outside the Hiroshima district court in Hiroshima, western Japan, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. A court has recognized people exposed to radioactive “black rain” that fell after the U.S. atomic attack on Hiroshima as atomic bomb survivors, ordering the government to provide the same medical benefits it gives other survivors. (AP)

Hiroshima: Japanese court recognizes atomic bomb survivors in landmark ruling

The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people and almost destroying the entire city

30 Jul 2020 9:48 AM

Health workers share a note at a restaurant where a worker is suspected to have COVID-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Vietnam intensifies protective measures as the number of locally transmissions, starting at a hospital in the popular beach city of Da Nang, keeps increasing since the weekend. (AP)

Once a success story, Vietnam is now widely reporting new clusters

Vietnam is the most populous country in the world to have recorded no deaths from the virus

29 Jul 2020 4:53 PM

China slams India on apps ban, vows counter measures

The measure is seen as a measure by India to impose economic costs on China for its aggression along the LAC in the Ladakh sector

28 Jul 2020 1:28 PM

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, walks into a courtroom at Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AFP Photo)

Malaysia's former PM Najib found guilty in first 1MDB graft case

Najib faced seven charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power for receiving $10 million from former 1MDB unit

28 Jul 2020 12:14 PM

Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak waves after a court appearance in Kuala Lumpur. - A Malaysian court on July 28, 2020 will hand down its verdict in Najib Razak's first corruption trial, nearly 16 months after it began probing the former prime minister's role in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal. (AFP)

1MDB: Malaysia's extraordinary financial scandal

The scandal alleges top Malaysian officials looted billions and then went on a spending spree - including financing a H'wood blockbuster

26 Jul 2020 11:48 AM

North Korean authorities have imposed a lockdown on the border city of Kaesong after discovering what they say is the country's first suspected coronavirus case. (Representational Image:AP)

North Korea declares emergency in border city over suspected COVID-19 case

Leader Kim Jong Un convened emergency politburo meeting to implement a 'maximum emergency system and top-class alert' to contain the spread

26 Jul 2020 9:27 AM

Officials sort seized pangolin scales at a port in southern Vietnam's Ba Ria Vung Tau province. - Vietnam, one of Asia's biggest consumers of wildlife products, has suspended all imports of wild animal species "dead or alive" and vowed to "eliminate" illegal markets across the country. (AFP)

Vietnam bans wildlife trade, markets to prevent animal-to-human infections

Vietnam has been a popular destination for wildlife products often from endangered species used in traditional medicine or exotic cuisine

25 Jul 2020 12:06 PM

A quarantine order was imposed on six different vessels anchored in the city's waters after some of the crew members tested positive for the virus. (AFP)

Seafarers skipping quarantine leads to sudden virus spike in Hong Kong

After successfully tackling COVID-19 local transmission once, case numbers in the densely packed finance hub increased again this month

24 Jul 2020 3:16 PM

Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, whose grandfather co-founded energy drink company Red Bull, walks to get in a car as he leaves a house in London. Charges have been dropped against the Thai heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who is accused in a 2012 car crash that killed a Bangkok police officer, Thai police said Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP)

Charges against Thai Red Bull heir dropped from fatal crash

Vorayuth, heir to one of the richest families in Thailand, avoided meeting prosecutors ever since and became a fugitive from justice

24 Jul 2020 2:30 PM

A Taiwanese Air Force F-16 in foreground flies on the flank of a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) H-6 bomber as it passes near Taiwan. (Republic of China (ROC) Ministry of National Defense via AP)

Taiwan says China sending military planes near island almost daily

China claims the self-ruling island democracy as its own territory and threatens to use People’s Liberation Army to bring it under control

23 Jul 2020 4:34 PM

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a new chicken farm being built in Hwangju County, North Korea. (AP)

Kim Jong Un visits chicken farm, calls for improvements

He described the facility as a model for modernizing chicken farms in the rest of the country, which he described as 'backward'

23 Jul 2020 12:19 PM

A Hong Kong Cafe, known as a "yellow shop" because its owners expressed sympathy for protesters, has a wall decorated with blank post-it notes in Hong Kong Thursday, July 9, 2020. Stores that supported the protest movement by putting up protest artwork and sticky notes filled with words of encouragement from customers have since taken them down, out of fear that its contents could land them in trouble with the authorities. Instead, they have put up blank sticky notes as a way to show solidarity with the movement. (AP)

Hong Kong protesters adapt signs, slogans to skirt new law

Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong have adapted their methods to try to make their voices heard without violating the law

21 Jul 2020 1:43 PM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Monday, July 20, 2020. The rocket is carrying ANASIS II, a national security satellite for South Korea. (AP)

South Korea's first-ever military satellite launched

The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South's ability to defend itself against the nuclear-armed North Korea, which invaded in 1950

21 Jul 2020 12:41 PM

People wearing face masks walk in a street near the Tokyo Tower. (AFP)

Kissing etiquette: Japan nightlife sets its virus rules

Strategic testing in nightlife districts of Tokyo has revealed rising cases of coronavirus, predominantly among people in their 20s and 30s

20 Jul 2020 6:55 PM

Taiwan's AH-1W attack helicopters launch flares during the 36th Han Kung military exercises in Taichung City, central Taiwan, Thursday, July 16, 2020. (AP)

Taiwan holds military drills against potential China threat

The live-fire demonstrations were largely held to exhibit Taiwan’s ability to defend in case of any Chinese invasion

16 Jul 2020 2:00 PM

Mongolian teenager dies of bubonic plague after eating infected marmot

The bubonic plague, known as 'Black Death' in the Middle Ages, is a highly infectious and often fatal disease spread mostly by rodents

16 Jul 2020 8:38 AM

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks during a press conference at the Metropolitan Government Office Wednesday, July 15, 2020, in Tokyo.(AP)

Tokyo's coronavirus resurgence alerts health experts

The resurgence of the virus in Tokyo could add to the growing pressure on policymakers to shore up the world’s No.3 economy

15 Jul 2020 3:48 PM

Pedestrians walk past a government public notice banner for the National Security Law in Hong Kong. (AFP)

China vows retaliation after Trump ends preferential status for Hong Kong

'Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs and no foreign country has the right to interfere,' China's foreign ministry said

15 Jul 2020 12:35 PM

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