Riot police secure a shopping mall after prostesters gathered to mark one year since a group of white-clad men attacked pro-democracy protesters who were returning home from protests at the nearby Yuen Long train station, in Hong Kong on July 21, 2020. Dale De Larey/AFP
22 July 2020
Riot police fanned out across a Hong Kong town on Tuesday to stamp out rallies marking...
Xu Zhangrun had criticised the 2018 abolition of presidential term limits, which left Xi Jinping (pictured) free to rule for life (AFP Photo/Leo RAMIREZ)
21 July 2020
Hundreds of former students have come to the support of a law professor fired from an...
 Indonesian police personnel show photographs of leader Para Wijayanto and various seized items, at a press conference in Jakarta on July 1, 2019, as Wijayanto was detained by counter-terrorism police with his wife on at a hotel in Bekasi, a city on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta. Photo: AFP
21 July 2020
Indonesia on Monday jailed two top leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) -- an Al-Qaeda-linked...
A woman rides motorbike past a billboard about the Covid-19 coronavirus in Hanoi, Vietnam. Photo: EPA
20 July 2020
A Myanmar sailor has raised Vietnam's Covid-19 tally to 384 and active cases to 26, the...
Dozens of people are still missing after flash floods hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island (AFP Photo/BNPB)
18 July 2020
Rescuers pulled bodies from under mud and debris Friday as they raced to find dozens...
A handout photo made available by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi during the 15th India-EU Virtual Summit 2020, in New Delhi, India, 15 July 2020. Photo: EPA
18 July 2020
Coronavirus cases in India passed one million on Friday, official data showed as...
 Public opinion was divided when Taiwain ended a moritorium on the death penalty in 2010 (AFP Photo/PATRICK LIN)
17 July 2020
Taiwan has released new procedures for carrying out capital punishment -- including...
Kolkata's famed Eden Gardens stadium will be used to quarantine police with the coronavirus (AFP Photo/Dibyangshu SARKAR)
16 July 2020
Kolkata's legendary Eden Gardens cricket stadium is to be used as a quarantine centre for...
Buildings are seen in a flooded part of Liuzhou city, Guangxi region, China, 11 July 2020. Photo: EPA
16 July 2020
Soldiers erected sandbag flood barriers in a city near China's largest freshwater lake...
Authorities in the Philippines are ramping up measures to control the spread of the coronavirus (AFP Photo/Miggy Hilario)
15 July 2020
Philippine police are being deployed to ensure people who test positive for the...
China has accused pro-democracy politicians of trying to launch a revolution (AFP Photo/ISAAC LAWRENCE)
15 July 2020
China has accused Hong Kong democracy activists of trying to start a revolution as it...
Passengers travel on a jeepney with seat dividers to ensure social distancing in Manila. Residents of Navotas, one of the poorest areas of the capital, will go back into lockdown following a spike in new coronavirus cases (AFP Photo/Ted ALJIBE)
14 July 2020
About 250,000 people in Manila will go back into lockdown, an official said Monday, as...

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