SHANGHAI: China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect...
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...
WELLINGTON: Torrential rains hit New Zealand's South Island on Wednesday, flooding rivers, houses and roads and forcing roughly 200 households to evacuate, media...
Seoul: North Korea test-fired two cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, a South Korean military official said, as President Yoon Suk-yeol...
COLOMBO:Sri Lanka's state of emergency imposed in the middle of last month will not be extended beyond this week, President Ranil Wickremesinghe's media...
BEIJING: Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies. The lack...
MELBOURNE: Australia faces a 70% chance of La Nina returning this spring, with a high likelihood of wet conditions over the next three...
Islamabad:Twenty people died, and six others injured after a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker on the road in Pakistan. Radio Pakistan...
China reported more than 2,000 new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as outbreaks flare across the country and put increasing strain on...
