Modi, Xi push business links, border peace as ties revive
12 September 2026
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Asia
Philippine ferry fire death toll jumps to 76: coast guard
12 September 2026
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Asia
Kim Jong Un wants North Koreans to have more (state-sanctioned) fun
11 September 2026
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World
Philippine ferry fire kills five, 87 missing: coast guard
10 September 2026
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Asia
Landslides in eastern China kill 13
9 September 2026
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Asia
N Korea calls Russia bridge a sign of tighter ties
9 September 2026
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Asia
Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight
5 September 2026
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Asia
Nepal flood losses estimated at $2.56 billion
4 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
Two trapped tunnel workers rescued 9 days after floods hit Nepal
4 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
Last-minute flood warning saved over 900 Nepal students, school head says
1 September 2026
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Asia
Blast at market kills 12 in Philippines
An explosion at a packed night market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 12 people on Friday and
2 September 2016
Japan typhoon kills 9
Surging flood water and mud brought by a devastating typhoon killed nine people in an elderly care home in northern Japan,
31 August 2016
Xi reshuffles key party posts ahead of congress
Chinese President Xi Jinping has reshuffled three top provincial-level Communist Party posts as he seeks to place his men in key
29 August 2016
North Korea rejects UNSC condemnation
North Korea yesterday hit back at a UN Security Council statement condemning its latest test-firing of a submarine-
28 August 2016
S'pore reports 41 locally transmitted Zika cases
Singapore yesterday confirmed 41 locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus, which can cause deformities in unborn
28 August 2016
WB hospital fire kills 3
Three people have been killed and 50 children injured in a fire broke out at the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal
27 August 2016
Extradite Dawood, India tells Pak
After the UN confirmation of Dawood Ibrahim's addresses in Pakistan, India said on Friday that it was incumbent upon Islamabad
27 August 2016
Japan PM pledges $30b for Africa
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday told African leaders that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private
27 August 2016
Kashmir curfew enters day-50
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a top separatist leader, his aide said yesterday, as the region's chief minister met
27 August 2016
Bus plunges into Nepal river; 21 killed
A packed passenger bus plunged into a river early yesterday in central Nepal, killing 21 people, a senior local official
26 August 2016
US aid to Pak shrinks
Pakistan's continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to the United States, coupled with warming US
26 August 2016
Nasheed meets exiled opposition groups
The Maldives' dissident former president met opposition groups in neighbouring Sri Lanka yesterday to hatch a plan
26 August 2016
Indian dargah ordered to lift ban on women
A centuries-old Islamic mausoleum was yesterday ordered to allow women to enter its inner sanctum, with an Indian
26 August 2016
Myanmar weighs quake damage
Myanmar took stock of toppled spires and crumbling temple walls in the ancient capital Bagan yesterday after a
25 August 2016
Maldives leader faces plot to overthrow him
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen, whose administration has jailed most of his opponents, is aware of an
25 August 2016
One more Kashmiri protester killed
One protester was killed yesterday in fresh clashes with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said.
24 August 2016
Protests as projectile reaches Japan ADIZ
North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile yesterday that flew about 500 km towards Japan, a show of
24 August 2016
Nepal PM to visit India to mend ties
Nepal's new prime minister will visit India next month on his first foreign visit, seeking to repair the strained
24 August 2016
Suu Kyi picks Annan to lead commission
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi picked former UN chief Kofi Annan yesterday to lead a commission to stop human
24 August 2016
Pak exiled MQM chief charged with treason
Pakistani police yesterday charged exiled Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, which rules Karachi, with treason
23 August 2016