Motorists pass the China-Myanmar border gate in Muse in Shan state on July 5, 2021, as the Chinese city of Ruili near the border with Myanmar imposed a lockdown and started mass testing after three Covid-19 coronavirus cases were reported on Monday.  Photo: AFP
06 July 2021
Muse, a Chinese city near the border with Myanmar has imposed a lockdown and started mass...
This aerial picture shows streets partly deserted in Jakarta on July 3, 2021, as Indonesia imposed a partial lockdown in the capital due to the COVID-19 coronavirus Delta variant.  Photo: AFP
04 July 2021
Thousands of troops and police hit the streets of Indonesia's Java island and Bali...
04 July 2021
Hundreds of millions of Chinese people have been celebrating the centenary of the Chinese...
HONG KONG , CHIINA : Last year 40 cases of the mosquito-born disease Dengue Fever where reported in Hong Kong . Photo: EPA
03 July 2021
China was certified as malaria-free this week by the World Health Organization, following...
Indian people stand under a tree to seek shadow during a heat wave in New Delhi, India, 05 June 2019.  Photo: EPA
03 July 2021
Tens of millions of people in India were suffering Friday under a severe heatwave that...
Stranded migrant labourers walk carrying their belongings to board a special train to Manipur from MGR Central railway station after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai on May 10, 2020.  Photo: AFP
03 July 2021
The Indian NGO Human Rights Alert (HRA) has written to the Manipur Human Rights...
This general view shows people crossing the street in Tokyo’s Shibuya district on June 17, 2021, as Japan plans to lift the city's virus emergency on June 20, a month before the Olympics.  Photo: AFP
28 June 2021
A company headed by a former Japanese minister has been pursuing a project to develop...
This handout photograph taken on June 21, 2021 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau shows The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressing the 7th International Yoga Day programme, through video. Photo: AFP
27 June 2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Kashmir's leaders this week for the first...
An Indian woman receives a shot of COVID-19 vaccine during the vaccination drive at CV Raman General Hospital in Bangalore, India. Photo: EPA
26 June 2021
Indian police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19...
Hatoyama Yukio former Japanese Prime Minister. Photo: EPA
22 June 2021
Myanmar citizens in Japan reportedly met with former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama...
21 June 2021
Indian envoy to Japan Sanjay Verma has said that India has been talking to 'both sides'...
20 June 2021
After months cooped up in coronavirus-hit Manila, Tanya Mariano fled the Philippine...

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