27 December 2020
A Myanmar woman was arrested by soldiers this week for illegal entry through Sangkhlaburi...
People listen as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a virtual address to the farmers of six states on the occasion of birth anniversary of former Indian prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in New Delhi, India, 25 December 2020. Photo: EPA
26 December 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered to hold fresh talks to end a...
Members of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Marshals stop cars and motorists and check for people not wearing the protective mask in the wake of rising coronavirus and COVID-19 disease infection in Bangalore, India, 16 December 2020. Photo: EPA
25 December 2020
A new strain of coronavirus that emerged in Britain in the past week has prompted dozens...
A handout image from the Ministry of Communications and Information shows a shipment of the Covid-19 vaccine unloaded from a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 cargo plane at the Changi Airport in Singapore, 21 December 2020. Photo: EPA
22 December 2020
Singapore received Asia's first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on...
Medical officials collect a nose swab sample to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon on December 19, 2020 after some cases of local infections were detected and linked to a vendor at the market. Photo: Jack Taylor/AFP)
22 December 2020
As of the morning of December 21, 90 percent of the more than 800 people infected with...
A migrant worker has a COVID-19 test performed at a shrimp wholesale market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, 19 December 2020. Photo: EPA
21 December 2020
Thailand will test more than 10,000 people for coronavirus after an outbreak linked to...
People push a half-submerged tricycle through a flooded street in Agusan del Sur province in Mindanao. (Photo: AFP)
20 December 2020
At least two people were killed and hundreds forced to flee their inundated homes in the...
 This photo taken on June 25, 2020 shows six-year-old Nosmin Fatima (R) with other Rohingya migrants as they arrive in Lhokseumawe in North Aceh. Photo: AFP
20 December 2020
Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea trying to...
Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine candidate CoronaVac are displayed at Sinovac Biotech during a government-organized media visiting in Beijing, China. Photo: EPA
19 December 2020
China plans to start opening its COVID-19 vaccination programme to members of the public...
(File) Pro-democracy district councillors speak in support of the 12 Hongkongers, which were detained in Shenzhen, in Hong Kong, China, 30 November 2020. Photo: EPA
17 December 2020
Chinese authorities have started prosecuting 12 Hong Kong activists caught while...
This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency on December 15, 2020 shows Vietnamese writer Tran Duc Thach during his court trial in Vietnam's Nghe An province, as he was sentenced to 12 years in jail on charges of attempting to overthrow the government. Photo: Vietnam News Agency / AFP
16 December 2020
A Vietnamese activist was jailed for 12 years Tuesday after writing articles critical of...
Photo: CCDAC Myanmar
16 December 2020
Bangladesh’s Department of Narcotics Control handed over a list of 49 clandestine labs in...

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