CHONGQING, China: China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories...
CHONGQING, China: China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories...
Lucknow/Bhubaneshwar: Floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains killed at least 50 people in northern and eastern India over the last three...
New Zealand will make temporary changes to immigration rules, a minister said on Sunday, aiming to lure 12,000 workers over the next year...
Indonesia confirmed its first case of monkeypox in a local man who was recently overseas, prompting authorities to say they will distribute vaccines...
Beijing: North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring...
Hong Kong will reopen one of its biggest Covid-19 isolation facilities as case numbers hit the highest in more than four months, putting...
Thailand will permit an extended length of stay for foreign tourists between October and March in a bid to support its economic recovery...
SHANGHAI: China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect...
WELLINGTON: Torrential rain hit parts of New Zealand for a fourth day on Friday, forcing hundreds of people from their homes as rivers...
China’s Covid cases surged to a three-month high, driven by a worsening outbreak in the tropical Hainan province that has become the country’s...
Beijing: China's fiscal revenue dropped 9.2 percent year on year during the first seven months of 2022. The country's fiscal revenue amounted to...
The Philippines is planning to sell its first local-currency bonds to retail investors since Ferdinand Marcos Jr. became president, in a debt offering...
BEIJING: Flooding caused by heavy rainfall in the western Chinese province of Qinghai has killed 16 people, state media reported on Thursday, with...
HANOI: Vietnam's government has ordered technology firms to store their users' data locally and set up local offices, its latest move to tighten...
KARACHI: Madhubala, a 16-year-old elephant in Pakistan suffering for years from a dental infection and pain caused by a broken tusk, finally got...
SHANGHAI: China is taking emergency action to bring more water to the drought-hit basin of the Yangtze river, deploying relief funds, seeding clouds...
Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to the island nation next week after fleeing in July amid mass protests, local broadcaster...
BEIJING: China will step up support for the economy, Premier Li Keqiang has said, urging economically important provinces to take the lead in...