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BBC World News barred from airing in China - regulator
English-language BBC World News is not included in most TV channel packages in China but is available in some hotels and residences
12 Feb 2021 1:05 AM
Nepal bans three Indian climbers for six years for faking Mt Everest summit
The climbers had received the certificates of climbing the 8,848.86m mountain by submitting false details to the Department of Tourism
11 Feb 2021 6:18 PM
What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan
The visit was politically sensitive for China which is concerned about any allegations it didn't handle the initial outbreak properly
10 Feb 2021 9:45 PM
WHO mission to China fails to find animal source of coronavirus
The experts spent one month in China, two weeks in quarantine and the same again on fieldwork
09 Feb 2021 6:15 PM
Thousands protest army takeover in Myanmar's biggest city
The U.S. Embassy called on the military to give up power, restore the democratically elected government and release those detained
07 Feb 2021 11:13 AM
Women detained in China's Xinjiang allegedly raped, sexually abused: BBC
The United States accuses China of committing genocide against Uighurs in Xinjiang
04 Feb 2021 1:19 PM
Myanmar blocks Facebook as resistance grows to coup
Service provider Telenor Myanmar confirmed that mobile operators and internet service providers had received a directive to block Facebook
04 Feb 2021 12:30 PM
Myanmar generals tighten grip on power as U.S. threatens sanctions
The crisis in Myanmar is one of the first major tests of Biden’s pledge to collaborate more with allies on international challenges
02 Feb 2021 12:24 PM
Why is the military taking control in Myanmar?
In the capital, internet and phone access appeared to be blocked and barbed wire road blocks were set up across Yangon
01 Feb 2021 4:57 PM
Myanmar's military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi
It justified the coup by alleging 'huge irregularities' in the November polls that the election commission had failed to address
01 Feb 2021 11:24 AM
Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown
Some are leaving because they fear punishment for supporting the pro-democracy protests that swept the former British colony in 2019
01 Feb 2021 10:33 AM
WHO virus probe begins with fieldwork in ground-zero Wuhan
The highly politicised mission had been beset by delays, with China refusing access until mid-January
30 Jan 2021 12:07 PM
At least 34 killed as quake rocks Indonesia
Rescuers were searching for more than a dozen patients and staff trapped beneath the rubble of the levelled Mamuju hospital
15 Jan 2021 11:00 AM
Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant
Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus
11 Jan 2021 11:37 AM
Indonesian plane feared crashed after losing contact
Authorities and the airline gave no immediate indication as to why the plane suddenly went down
09 Jan 2021 8:44 PM
Mumbai attack mastermind and LeT commander Lakhvi gets 5-year jail term
The US had welcomed Lakhvi's arrest last week but said Pakistan should try him for the Mumbai attacks also
09 Jan 2021 4:11 AM
South Korea reports record virus surge on Christmas Day
The nation has been held up as a model of how to combat the virus, but Friday saw a record 1,241 new infections
25 Dec 2020 1:11 PM
Pharma chief urges transparency in virus vaccine rollout
Takeda inked a deal with the Japanese government and US firm Moderna Therapeutics to import and distribute 50 million doses of its vaccine
20 Dec 2020 12:32 PM
Azerbaijan captures key Karabakh town of Shusha; Armenia vows to fight on
Clashes broke out in late September between Azerbaijan and Armenia-backed separatists over control of Karabakh
08 Nov 2020 5:00 PM
Kabul University attack: Aghanistan in mourning after Islamic State strike kills 22
Outside Kabul University Tuesday a small group of demonstrators gathered demanding a cease-fire
03 Nov 2020 3:52 PM
Columns
Worldview India’s journalists remember April 2003 for the kind of journalism Indians haven’t practised before or since
While it would be erroneous to see political colour in what should be seen as usual assignments, few observers are willing to buy this line
Once again, we are locked down. And migrant workers are leaving out of fear of being abandoned. How did we get here?
Was planning an eight-phase poll spread over a month, and during a pandemic too boot, wrong, after all?