Myanmar General Myint Swe, who was appointed president following a coup in 2021, told an emergency meeting of the ruling military council that coordinated attacks by...
Sobbing relatives of victims from Nepal’s worst earthquake in eight years cremated their loved ones on Sunday as rescuers looked for people who could still be...
Rescue workers in Nepal are continuing to dig through the wreckage of collapsed houses with their bare hands, looking for survivors after the country’s deadliest earthquake...
HRH Prince William arrived in Singapore on Sunday and visited Jewel Changi Airport before his work trip. The Prince of Wales, who landed at Changi Airport...
The United Nations reports that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, which was once the leading supplier globally, has decreased dramatically since the Taliban banned the practise...
More than 40 dogs, including a litter of 10-day-old puppies, were rescued from a dog slaughterhouse in Vietnam on Friday when their owner decided to stop...
The Irrawaddy reports that in northeastern Shan State the Myanmar junta is forcing Thai citizens to work and using them as human shields as violence between...
The world’s largest pension fund in Japan’s, reported a loss of US$4.5 billion on total assets during the three months through September, as its holdings of...
As a toxic haze engulfed key cities in northern China on Tuesday, authorities issued their strongest air pollution warnings, warning the public that visibility might decrease...
(CTN News) – On Tuesday, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of NAB graft Cases verdicts by accountability courts. The orders were made when the court...
An official in India stated on Monday that the dead toll from a train disaster in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh has increased to 13,...
As China grapples with an ageing population and a historic drop in birth rates, President Xi Jinping said women play a key role and must develop...
The sighting of an elderly woman brandishing a BB gun in public in Taiwan has caused widespread alarm on social media. On Tuesday, an image of...
Thailand’s Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit reports, Chiang Mai International Airport will begin operating around the clock on Wednesday as part of the government’s Quick-Win economic stimulus...
Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, aged 68, just 10 months after leaving office after a decade in which his...
On Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with the new speaker of the United States House of Representatives, saying he hoped the United States Congress...
The Supreme Court of Japan declared on Wednesday that a law forcing transgender persons to undergo sterilisation surgery in order to legally alter their gender is...
According to state-affiliated media in China, Chinese police have saved more than 1,000 cats from being killed and sold as meat. Police in the eastern city...
China’s Xi Jinping has fired his military defence minister, General Li Shangfu, just two months after he vanished from public view. There has been no justification...
The deforestation caused by the rubber farming in Thailand and the world has been significantly underestimated, according to new findings from two scientific studies, with Southeast...