Taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi says she is competing in the name of women in Afghanistan who have gradually been stripped of their rights over the past three years
August 06, 2024
China said it would begin adding controls and regulation to the production of three chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl, the White House said on Tuesday, calling the move "a
August 06, 2024
Mohammed Shahabuddin, the president of Bangladesh since April 2023, is the country's sole top constitutional authority since Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to
August 06, 2024
ByteDance has expanded its offering of a software that can generate videos based on text prompts, joining a growing number of Chinese tech firms entering an emerging market also
August 06, 2024
Bangladesh’s ‘Gen Z revolution’ toppled a veteran leader. Why did they hit the streets and what happens now?
August 06, 2024
South Korea said on Tuesday it will issue a ban on its citizens travelling to the border areas of Israel and Lebanon after advising them to leave the countries amid
August 06, 2024
Bangladesh's parliament was dissolved on Tuesday, the president's office said in a statement, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following violent
August 06, 2024
Bangladesh's first female leader Khaleda Zia was freed from house arrest on Tuesday, a day after her nemesis Sheikh Hasina quit as premier and fled, one more twist to
August 06, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said it remained "fully committed to Bangladesh and its people" after protests ousted the prime minister.
August 06, 2024
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will head Bangladesh’s interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule
August 06, 2024
Global stocks rallied on Tuesday, partly reversing some of the previous day's steep declines, while the Japanese yen took a breather, after central bank officials said all the right things
August 06, 2024
The Bank of Japan is facing fresh communication challenges as last week's decision to raise interest rates, coupled with U.S. recession fears,
August 06, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was named chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and
August 06, 2024
Gunmen kill New Zealand helicopter pilot in another attack in Indonesia’s restive Papua region
August 06, 2024
How ‘special forces travelers’ are making – and then breaking – Chinese tourism destinations
August 06, 2024
Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, has died at age 97
August 05, 2024
Japanese leaders rushed on Tuesday to assuage concerns about the sharp swings in the country's financial markets, with the prime minister
August 06, 2024
Meta Platforms apologised on Tuesday for erroneously removing Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's social media posts in which he expressed condolences to a Hamas official
August 06, 2024
The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations gripped the South Asian nation.
August 05, 2024
Citigroup has hired Yeo Wenxian as head of wealth for Asia South region from Singapore's biggest lender DBS Group Holdings, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
August 05, 2024
Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages rose in June for the first time in more than two years as nominal pay gained at the fastest pace in nearly
August 05, 2024
Equities around the world rebounded on Tuesday from the previous day's aggressive sell-off while Treasury yields rose and the dollar was
August 05, 2024
Gunmen have stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s restive Papua region
August 05, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
August 05, 2024
Myanmar’s military regime says it has lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast
August 05, 2024
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