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Philippines’ Marcos says sovereign wealth fund will proceed 19 Oct 2023 - 04:26 pm
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Pakistan court grants bail to exiled ex-PM Nawaz Sharif ahead of his return 19 Oct 2023 - 10:47 am
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Spending by visitors to Japan beats pre-pandemic levels 18 Oct 2023 - 01:56 pm
A man uses an umbrella to shelter from the rain at the Ginza district in Tokyo on June 2, 2023. Photo by Philip FONG / AFP
Marcos suspends Philippine wealth fund formation 18 Oct 2023 - 12:11 pm
Peninsula
Xi welcomes 'dear friend' Putin to Beijing 17 Oct 2023 - 08:15 pm
This pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping interacting during a welcoming ceremony at the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov / POOL / AFP)
India to launch its first crewed moon mission by 2040 17 Oct 2023 - 04:35 pm
File photo: PSLV XL rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 02, 2023. (R. Satish Babu / AFP)
Kazakhstan authorizes hunting of Saiga antelopes 16 Oct 2023 - 05:42 pm
(FILES) A Saiga antelope grazes in the steppe on the border of Akmola and Kostanay regions of Kazakhstan in the morning of May 10, 2022. (Photo by Abduaziz MADYAROV / AFP)
Myanmar military marks rebel ceasefire despite rebel clashes 15 Oct 2023 - 02:17 pm
Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the 8th anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in Naypyidaw on October 15, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Powerful earthquake shakes west Afghanistan a week after devastating quakes hit same region 15 Oct 2023 - 08:04 am
Peninsula
Australian voters reject greater Indigenous rights 14 Oct 2023 - 03:31 pm
Shadow minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (R) and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton attend a press conference following the results of Australia's historic Indigenous rights referendum, in Brisbane on October 14, 2023. (Photo by Patrick Hamilton / AFP)
Two dead as floods hit central Vietnam 14 Oct 2023 - 02:10 pm
This photo taken on October 13, 2023 shows local workers removing fallen trees on a flooded road by the Perfume River in Hue city in central Vietnam. (Photo by Tam GIANG / AFP)
'Licence to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar 13 Oct 2023 - 11:11 pm
This photo taken on October 11, 2023 shows plastic waste in Yangon's Shwepyithar township. In a working-class neighbourhood of Myanmar's Yangon, plastic waste is piled a metre high, the toxic product of what a recent investigation says is rampant dumping of Western trash. (Photo by AFP) 
Hong Kong adds two shark families on controlled trade list 13 Oct 2023 - 10:05 pm
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Seoul to adopt crowd alert to avoid repeat of Halloween tragedy 13 Oct 2023 - 11:11 am
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Russian President Putin arrives in Kyrgyzstan on a rare trip abroad 12 Oct 2023 - 04:53 pm
This pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov attending a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary the Kant Russian aviation military base in Kyrgyzstan, at the Ala-Archa state residence in Bishkek on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov / POOL / AFP)
Jailed former Pakistan PM Imran Khan says 'stronger than ever' 12 Oct 2023 - 03:51 pm
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'Cuter in real life': South Korea names its twin panda 'treasures' 12 Oct 2023 - 11:49 am
Panda cubs Rui Bao (L) and Hui Bao (R), who were born 97 days ago in South Korea, are seen during a ceremony to reveal their names at Everland Amusement and Animal Park in Yongin on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Passenger train derails in eastern India, killing 4 people and injuring dozens 12 Oct 2023 - 11:30 am
A general view shows damaged carriages near Raghunathpur railway station some 44 Km from Buxar on October 12, 2023, after an express train derailed late on October 11 in India's Bihar state. Photo by Sachin KUMAR / AFP