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China's Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker Prize, 'Nobel' for architecture 04 Mar 2025 - 06:45 pm
Peninsula
Japan's worst wildfire in half a century spreads 04 Mar 2025 - 01:47 pm
This picture taken on March 3, 2025 shows people watching a wildfire which approaches a village from the fishing port of Ofunato city in Iwate prefecture. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP)
Philippine Air Force fighter goes missing during 'tactical' operation 04 Mar 2025 - 08:22 am
A Philippine Air Force FA-50 multirole light fighter aircraft flies past at the Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga province on November 18, 2015. (Photo by Ted Aljibe / AFP)
Singapore probes final destination of possible Nvidia chip servers 03 Mar 2025 - 10:12 pm
(FILES) This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek and Nvidia logos on screens in Hangzhou, in China痴 eastern Zhejiang province on January 27, 2025. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT
Indonesia needs 4 mln tons of rice for free nutritious meal program 03 Mar 2025 - 09:52 pm
Rice fields in Indonesia. File photo for representation only.
China refutes Rubio's false charges 03 Mar 2025 - 08:11 pm
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty during a photo opportunity ahead of a meeting in the U.S. State Department Building on February 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Cambodia records spikes in diabetes, cancer, mental health cases in 2024: official 03 Mar 2025 - 07:19 pm
People ride a ferry at sunset on the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on August 12, 2021. (Reuters File Photo)
Pakistan's old English manners spell youth Scrabble success 03 Mar 2025 - 11:16 am
In this photograph taken on February 16, 2025, Pakistani prodigy Bilal Asher, world under-14 Scrabble champion, competes against professional Scrabble coach Waseem Khatri during an event in Karachi. (Photo by Asif Hassan / AFP)
Japan deploys nearly 1,700 firefighters to tackle forest blaze 03 Mar 2025 - 08:19 am
Peninsula
Indonesians swindled by scams using President Prabowo deepfakes 03 Mar 2025 - 01:11 am
(FILES) Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto speaks as he attends a press conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (not pictured) during a meeting in Kuala Lumpuron January 27, 2025. (Photo by HASNOOR HUSSAIN / POOL / AFP)
5.7-magnitude earthquake jolts Indonesia's Seram island 03 Mar 2025 - 01:04 am
Peninsula
Maldives shuts government offices as record rainfall triggers severe flooding 02 Mar 2025 - 10:29 pm
Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu looks on after reading the oath during his inauguration ceremony in Male on November 17, 2023. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodokara / AFP)
China's top political advisory body concludes standing committee session 02 Mar 2025 - 10:24 pm
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), presides over the closing meeting of the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and delivers a speech at the meeting in Beijing, capital of China, March 2, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)
Brunei starts Ramadan amid food price stabilization efforts 02 Mar 2025 - 10:19 pm
People buy food for Iftar during the holy month of Ramadan at a market in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, March 2, 2025. (Photo by Haji Norazlan Othman/Xinhua)
Sri Lanka issues severe lightning warning 02 Mar 2025 - 08:13 pm
Citizens take a walk inside the Jaffna Fort in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on February 23, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Dongshu)
Japan PM touts "cute" Japan at fashion show 02 Mar 2025 - 06:34 pm
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stands with Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the 2025 Osaka World Expo, during a visit to the Tokyo Girls Collection fashion event in the Shibuya district of Tokyo on March 1, 2025. (Photo by Jiji Press / AFP)
Seven dead in India avalanche as survivors recall rescue 02 Mar 2025 - 02:44 pm
In this handout photograph taken on March 1, 2025 and released by the Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) Uttarakhand, security personnel carry a victim onto a helicopter during a rescue operation, a day after an avalanche hit a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) construction camp, as workers remain trapped under snow and debris near Mana village in the Chamoli district of India's Uttarakhand state. Photo by Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) Uttarakhand / AFP
Pakistani astronaut to enter Chinese space station, first for a foreign astronaut 01 Mar 2025 - 08:51 pm
Muhammad Yousuf Khan (L), chairman of the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), and Lin Xiqiang (R), deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), pose for a photo with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during the exchange of cooperation agreement on the spaceflight of Pakistani astronaut to the Chinese space station in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Feb. 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)