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Malaysia Airlines parent company to buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX planes 22 Mar 2025 - 09:29 pm
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Pakistan's footwear exports increase over 15 pct in first 8 months of FY 2025 22 Mar 2025 - 08:28 pm
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Beijing simplifies marriages to encourage Chinese to wed 22 Mar 2025 - 05:02 pm
A man walks outside a building in the central business district in Beijing on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP)
Elon Musk's X sues Indian government over content regulation 22 Mar 2025 - 04:01 pm
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Four killed in S. Korea wildfire, hundreds told to evacuate 22 Mar 2025 - 03:42 pm
Helicopters try to extinguish a fire after a wildfire broke out in the southeastern county of Sancheong on March 22, 2025. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Tourist killed as boat capsizes off Indonesia's Bali 22 Mar 2025 - 12:53 pm
This handout from the Klungkung District Police taken on March 21, 2025 and released on March 22, 2025 shows survivors sitting on the hull of a capsized boat, as they wait to be rescued, after the snorkeling boat with tourists was hit by waves in Nusa Penida, Bali. (Photo by Handout / KLUNGKUNG DISTRICT POLICE / AFP)
Japan, S. Korea, China discuss enhancing cooperation 22 Mar 2025 - 09:42 am
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) and South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul (R) shake hands as Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya looks on during a joint press conference after their meeting during the 11th Trilateral Foreign Minister's Meeting (Japan-China-ROK) in Tokyo on March 22, 2025. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin / POOL / AFP)
Last of six foreign hikers missing in Philippines rescued 22 Mar 2025 - 09:29 am
Peninsula
Bangladesh govt says will not ban ousted PM Hasina's party 21 Mar 2025 - 03:30 pm
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Flights cancelled, thousands evacuated after Indonesia volcano eruption 21 Mar 2025 - 02:34 pm
Passengers look at an electronic board displaying cancelled flights at the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban near Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on March 21, 2025, after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano in the archipelago nation's east erupted, shooting dark ash eight kilometres into the sky. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)
Robots to retrieve radioactive sandbags at Fukushima plant 21 Mar 2025 - 02:18 pm
This aerial picture shows storage tanks (bottom) used for storing treated water at TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on August 24, 2023. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP)
Philippine rescuers find German, British hikers, 4 still missing 21 Mar 2025 - 01:36 pm
Peninsula
Europe games industry on edge as 'Assassin's Creed' hits shelves 20 Mar 2025 - 04:51 pm
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New 'Assassin's Creed' game criticised in Japan parliament 20 Mar 2025 - 04:45 pm
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Sri Lanka govt faces popularity test with local polls 20 Mar 2025 - 01:15 pm
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Plastic art installations as Indonesia seeks to convert waste into energy 19 Mar 2025 - 09:13 pm
People install plastic garbage to an art installation in Gresik Regency, East Java, Indonesia, on March 19, 2025. (Photo by Sahlan Kurniawan/Xinhua)
Pakistan launches spring tree plantation drive to improve environment quality 19 Mar 2025 - 08:14 pm
This photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows the spring scenery in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)
'Bring him home': Philippines migrant workers grapple with Duterte fallout 19 Mar 2025 - 07:33 pm
Filipino migrant workers turn on their phone flashlights and place them in a circle around a clenched fist symbol to express support for former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong on March 16, 2025. (Photo by Purple Romero / AFP)