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Bangladesh launches fresh reform bid 02 Jun 2025 - 05:01 pm
(FILES) Nobel laureate and Chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government Muhammad Yunus. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)
South Korea presidential candidates rally in final campaign stretch 02 Jun 2025 - 02:37 pm
Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea's Democratic Party, gestures behind bullet-resistant glass at the podium during his final election campaign event ahead of the upcoming June 3 presidential election in Seoul on June 2, 2025. Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP.
Snakes on a plane: Indian smuggler caught with venomous vipers 02 Jun 2025 - 07:53 am
Pictures shared by Mumbai Customs on X
South Korea's export falls 1.3 pct in May 01 Jun 2025 - 08:32 pm
Peninsula
Bangladeshi chief adviser urges Chinese investors to make Bangladesh their home, production hub 01 Jun 2025 - 07:23 pm
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks during a press conference upon his arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on August 8, 2024. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP)
India's monsoon rains kill at least 30 in northeast 01 Jun 2025 - 04:26 pm
Residents wade through a flooded street following heavy rainfall in the Khurai Konsam Leikai village in Imphal East district of India's Manipur state on May 31, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Indian airline IndiGo orders 30 Airbus A350 widebody planes 01 Jun 2025 - 04:01 pm
Indigo CEO Pieter Elbers addresses a media briefing in New Delhi on May 30, 2025. (Photo by Money Sharma / AFP)
Bangladesh banknotes replace ousted PM's father portrait 01 Jun 2025 - 12:42 pm
Specimens of notes - 20, 50 and 1,000 - as released by Bangladesh Bank
India monsoon floods kill five in northeast 31 May 2025 - 02:31 pm
Women commute in cycle rickshaws through a flooded street after heavy rains in Guwahati, in India's Assam state on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Biju Boro / AFP)
Man jumps into display of China's Terracotta Army: officials 31 May 2025 - 12:25 pm
View of the Terracotta Army. Source: Wikimedia
Pentagon chief irks Singaporeans with Lee-Trump comparison 31 May 2025 - 09:08 am
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) is greeted by his Singaporean counterpart Chan Chun Sing (R) at a ministerial roundtable during the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan / AFP)
Storms in Pakistan kill 32, injure over 150 in a week 30 May 2025 - 08:17 pm
A man takes pictures of a damaged mosque, a day after flash floods in Balgran village near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 28, 2025. (Photo by Sajjad Qayyum / AFP)
Sri Lanka ex-ministers jailed up to 25 years for corruption 29 May 2025 - 08:43 pm
Sri Lanka's former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage (left) and former trade minister Anil Fernando are escorted by police outside a court in Colombo on May 29, 2029 (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/ AFP)
East Timor deports ex-Philippine lawmaker wanted in 2023 killings 29 May 2025 - 08:32 pm
Filipino national Arnolfo Teves (centre), a murder suspect, is escorted by East Timorese security personnel for deportation to his home country at Nicolau Lobato airport in Dili on May 29, 2025. (Photo by Valentino Dariell De Sousa / AFP)
Navy patrol plane crashes in South Korea, killing four 29 May 2025 - 02:40 pm
Firefighters work at the site where a South Korean navy maritime patrol aircraft crashed on a mountain in Pohang on May 29, 2025. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Mango deal sweetens ties between Bangladesh and China 28 May 2025 - 04:35 pm
Bangladeshi mangoes make Chinese market debut. Photo credit: The Daily Star
Chinese paraglider gets caught in extreme air phenomenon, ascends to nearly 9km, violates airspace 28 May 2025 - 12:04 pm
Screen grab from trending social media video of Lui's incident. Taken from 新一工藤 on YouTube.
Violent Pakistan storms trigger floods, landslides killing 10 28 May 2025 - 11:47 am
Pakistani policemen look on as workers remove a fallen railway tower after a storm in Multan on May 28, 2025. (Photo by Shahid Saeed Mirza / AFP)