This photograph taken on October 4, 2022 shows a residential neighbourhood during a power blackout in Dhaka. At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were left without power on October 4 after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company said. Photo: Munir uz zaman / AFP
05 October 2022
An unexplained grid failure left over 80 percent of the population of Bangladesh, or 130...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a joint news conference with Ukrainian President following their talks at the Mariinsky palace in Kiev, on August 22, 2021. Photo: AFP
05 October 2022
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday won the United Nations refugee agency's...
A boat carrying Rohingya people from Myanmar arrives on the shorelines of Lancok village, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 25, 2020. Photo: AFP
05 October 2022
At least three people drowned and nearly 20 others were missing off the Bangladesh coast...
Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (C) attends the 38th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting, which is hosted via video conferencing from Brunei amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 26 October 2021. Photo: EPA
05 October 2022
Cambodia has not invited Myanmar junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, to the 40th and...
At least 125 people were killed in one of the deadliest disasters in the history of football, when officers fired tear gas in a packed stadium, triggering a stampede in Indonesia. Photo: AFP
04 October 2022
At least 32 children died in Indonesia's stadium crush, an official said Monday, as...
This handout photo taken and released by the Taiwan Presidential Office on October 3, 2022 shows a man taking video of a ceremony to launch the new English-language TV channel TaiwanPlus in Taipei. Photo: HANDOUT / Taiwan Presidential Office / AFP
04 October 2022
Taiwan launched its first English-language TV channel on Monday in a bid to boost its...
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath  speaks during a political rally in New Delhi, India. Photo: EPA
03 October 2022
A tractor pulling a trolley packed with religious pilgrims in India overturned and...
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III. Photo: EPA
02 October 2022
The defense ministers of the United States, Australia and Japan agreed Saturday to boost...
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02 October 2022
Earthquakes have hit both Myanmar and Indonesia over the last couple of days.
 In this file photo taken on August 17, 2022, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha addresses an award function in Bangkok. Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled on September 30 that suspended prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha can resume office. Photo:  Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP
01 October 2022
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-O-cha resumed office Friday after the country's...
A general view of the skyline of Manila. Photo: AFP
01 October 2022
Philippine police have rescued 29 Myanmar and Chinese nationals who were allegedly...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Photo: AFP / Yomiuri / Ryohei Moriya
30 September 2022
Japan called Thursday for "constructive and stable" ties with China as the two sides...

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