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Image shows (back row L to R) Agnes Chow, Anthony Wong, Tiffany Yuen, Denise Ho, Lester Shum, (front row L to R) Eddie Chu, Joshua Wong and Gregory Wong posing while campaigning during a primary election in Hong Kong. (AFP)

Young activists, localists top Hong Kong's unofficial pro-democracy polls

Leader Carrie Lam warned that the election could be considered subverting state power under the city’s new national security law

15 Jul 2020 11:41 AM

Singapore deports 10 Indians, bars their re-entry for violating circuit breaker rules

The Indian nationals, holding student or work passes, were caught having a social gathering at a rented apartment on May 5

13 Jul 2020 4:12 PM

A Mumbai Municipal Corp. worker fumigates a street in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. While 2019 was the worst year on record for global dengue cases, experts fear an even bigger surge is possible because their efforts to combat it were hampered by restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP)

Dengue prevention efforts worldwide stifled by coronavirus pandemic

With healthcare systems crumbling in countries around the world, experts say they aren’t sure how world would be able to handle this load

13 Jul 2020 9:36 AM

Health workers conduct a swab test on civilians, some of 28 living in the compounds of the Indonesian army's Officer Candidate School in Bandung.(AFP)

Indonesia military academy hit by virus outbreak

Of the 1,280 confirmed infections, 991 were cadets and the rest were staff and their family members

12 Jul 2020 6:12 PM

People queue up to vote in Hong Kong Saturday, July 11, 2020, in an unofficial “primary” for pro-democracy candidates ahead of legislative elections in September. (AP)

Hong Kongers pour in to vote in unofficial election held by pro-democracy camp

The pro-democracy elections were held despite government warnings that it may be in breach of new security law imposed by China

12 Jul 2020 2:07 PM

Participants wave British and U.S. flags during a rally demanding electoral democracy and call for boycott of the Chinese Communist Party and all businesses seen to support it in Hong Kong. (AP)

UK and China fight over Hong Kong security law

Britain’s decision to offer refuge to millions in Hong Kong, UK's former colony, was met with a stern telling-off by China

12 Jul 2020 1:00 PM

This Oct. 29, 1953, file photo shows Gen. Paik Sun-yup on the reviewing stand in South Korea. (AP)

Paik Sun-yup, major South Korean war hero, dies at 99

The South Korean army announced his death on Saturday, but did not immediately release the cause of death

11 Jul 2020 11:36 AM

Singapore's Prime Minister and secretary-general of the ruling People's Action Party Lee Hsien Loong (C) and his wife Ho Ching (R) leave the party's office after delivering the speech live on facebook to citizens during the counting of votes of the general election in Singapore, in the early hours of July 11, 2020. (AFP)

PM Lee returns to power in Singapore with a clear mandate

The ruling party, in power since independence in 1965, secured 61.24 per cent of the total votes cast in the election

11 Jul 2020 10:02 AM

US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (2nd L) signing documents as the North Korean leader's sister Kim Yo Jong (L) looks on at a signing ceremony. (AFP)

Another Kim-Trump summit is unlikely to happen: Kim Yo Jong

Kim's powerful sister says there’s no reason for North Korea to 'gift' high-profile meetings to Donald Trump

10 Jul 2020 11:48 AM

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon speaks during a press conference at Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP)

Seoul mayor's death a suicide after #MeToo allegations

He was reported missing by his daughter on Thursday, who said he had been unreachable after leaving a message that sounded like 'last words'

10 Jul 2020 8:50 AM

File image of Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue. (Photo courtesy: Facebook/ Tenzin Tsundue)

Tibet's Independence is India's best security against China, says activist Tenzin Tsundue

Tibetan activists like Tsundue are urging India to realise what exactly Beijing is up to: Bullying India.

10 Jul 2020 2:27 AM

Seoul mayor missing, phone turned off

The mayor has left a verbal message for his daughter, described as sounding like a will, police say

09 Jul 2020 4:58 PM

Foreign tourists carry their surf boards at Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, July 9, 2020. (AP)

Bali island reopens after 3 months of virus lockdown

The local government had granted automatic visa extensions to more than 7,000 tourists who got stranded in the island due to coronavirus

09 Jul 2020 3:59 PM

People sprinkle flowers at the grave of a family member who presumably died of COVID-19 at a cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP)

Dead bodies kidnapped in Indonesia as traditions clash with virus protocol

Corpse handlers say their job profile itself has changed, with longer hours and some even required to do rituals typically done by families

09 Jul 2020 1:10 PM

North Korea on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, repeated it has no immediate intent to resume dialogue with the United States hours before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun was to arrive in South Korea for discussions on the stalled nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo)

North Korea rejects talks ahead of US envoy's arrival in Seoul

North Korea ridiculed South's “nonsensical” calls for revived negotiations between US and Pyongyang when it lost its relevance as a mediator

07 Jul 2020 3:32 PM

A nuclear accord with the US signed in 2015 by the Obama administration, under which Iran would stop all nuclear activity, was unilaterally abandoned by the Trump administration in 2018. Since September 2019, Iran began enriching uranium at the Natanz facility, where the accident took place on Thursday. This photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Photo | AP)

Accident at site damages Iran's nuclear programme restarted after US abandoned deal

The accident at a warehouse could slow the production of centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

06 Jul 2020 6:30 PM

A drone display showing messages of support for the country amid the covid-19 pandemic, above the Han river in central Seoul. (AFP)

Hundreds of drones light up Seoul sky with virus messages

The show began with reminding people of precautionary measures, including wearing masks, washing hands and observing social distancing

06 Jul 2020 1:24 PM

A car leans against a building following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP)

Desperate searches as dozens feared dead in Japan floods

At least 36 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday

06 Jul 2020 8:53 AM

A woman looks at books in a public library in Hong Kong on July 4, 2020. - Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city's libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.The new security law and the removal of books raises questions of whether academic freedom still exists. (Photo | AFP)

Hong Kong libraries remove books on democracy fearing it may violate China's national security law

The national security law is fundamentally a tool to incriminate speech, wrote author and activist Joshua Wong on Facebook.

04 Jul 2020 8:26 PM

A woman (L) sticks a blank note onto a “Lennon Wall” outside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong on July 3, 2020, in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kong’s independence or liberation illegal. (AFP)

'Hidden language': Hong Kongers get creative to mark dissent against security law

Apart from word plays, residents are using even Chinese Communist Party dogma to express their frustration through sarcasm

04 Jul 2020 3:09 PM

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