World / Asia

Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi jailed for total of 33 years 30 Dec 2022 - 07:35 pm

Naypyidaw: Ousted Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another seven years in jail as her long series of trials...

Death toll from Cambodia casino fire reaches 26 as search called off 30 Dec 2022 - 06:11 pm

Poipet, Cambodia: Rescuers finished searching the charred ruins of a Cambodian hotel and casino complex Friday after the death toll from a fire...

China to stop testing chilled, frozen foods for COVID from Jan. 8 30 Dec 2022 - 03:03 pm

HONG KONG: China's meat trade on Friday cheered the imminent end of testing and disinfecting chilled and frozen foods for COVID-19, more than...

Indian maker of cough syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths halts production 30 Dec 2022 - 02:06 pm

NEW DELHI: The Indian maker of a cough syrup that was linked to the death of 19 children in Uzbekistan has halted production...

Malaysia to screen inbound travellers, including from China, for fever 30 Dec 2022 - 12:54 pm

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Friday said it will screen all inbound travellers for fever and test wastewater from aircraft arriving from China for...

Few tourists, deserted streets in Macau after reopening 30 Dec 2022 - 12:46 pm

MACAU: Three years of COVID-19 forced Becky Zhang’s specialty food business in Macau to near collapse. Founded by her grandmother more than fifty...

Indonesia lifts remaining COVID restrictions 30 Dec 2022 - 11:18 am

JAKARTA: Indonesia on Friday removed all remaining measures to control the spread of COVID-19 effective immediately, since most of the country's population already...

South Korea to require COVID tests for travellers from China 30 Dec 2022 - 11:15 am

SEOUL: South Korea said on Friday it will impose mandatory COVID-19 tests on travellers from China, joining the United States, Japan and other...

Rural residents worry for elderly as COVID rips across China 30 Dec 2022 - 11:06 am

LEZHI: In a busy village clinic in Lezhi county in southwest China's Sichuan province on Thursday, 59-year-old Yang waited anxiously as her husband...

Philippines floods, landslides kill 44 after Christmas Day rains 30 Dec 2022 - 08:29 am

MANILA: The death toll from flooding and landslides caused by Christmas Day rains in the southern Philippines rose to 44, with 28 others...

Exiled Afghan MP says Taliban 'erasing' women 29 Dec 2022 - 11:12 pm

London: A former Afghan woman MP who fled to Britain after the Taliban takeover in 2021 on Thursday called on the world to...

Global alarm grows over China's Covid surge 29 Dec 2022 - 09:45 pm

Beijing: The United States joined nations imposing Covid tests on travellers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases, but...

UN aid chief to visit Afghanistan over female aid worker ban 29 Dec 2022 - 09:40 pm

United Nations: UN aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and will seek to meet the highest possible officials...

China COVID deaths accelerate to 9,000 a day - UK research firm Airfinity 29 Dec 2022 - 06:57 pm

BEIJING: Around 9,000 people in China are probably dying each day from COVID-19, UK-based health data firm Airfinity said on Thursday, nearly doubling...

Cambodian casino fire kills 19, dozens more feared dead 29 Dec 2022 - 06:26 pm

POIPET, Cambodia: At least 19 people, many of them Thais, were killed and up to 30 were missing after a fire tore through...

Philippine health department says no need to restrict Chinese visitors 29 Dec 2022 - 05:43 pm

The Philippines may require Covid-19 testing on inbound Chinese travelers as it keeps its borders open to visitors from China, President Ferdinand Marcos...

Indian maker of syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths halts production; facility inspected 29 Dec 2022 - 04:41 pm

NEW DELHI: India's drug regulator said on Thursday that it had inspected a facility that made a cough syrup linked to deaths of...

Death toll from Philippine floods, landslides climbs to 39 29 Dec 2022 - 04:25 pm

Manila: Four people died in the southern Philippines after being hit by a landslide, authorities said on Thursday, taking the nationwide death toll...