The camp on Tuesday. As many as 400 people are missing, and many are presumed  dead. Photo: Reuter
06 January 2022
A devastating fire has ripped through a COVID-19 treatment centre for Myanmar refugees...
A Cathay Pacific cargo airplane prepares to land at Hong Kong International Airport on Nov 21, 2021. (File photo: AFP/Bertha Wang)
19 December 2021
Hong Kong's strict adherence to a zero-Covid strategy is damaging the hub's aviation...
Laiza lies on the border with China - Photo: Wikipedia
13 November 2021
A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has locked down a town on the porous China border following...
Zhang, a citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China's initial response to Covid in Wuhan, is close to death on November 5, 2021 after going on hunger strike, her family said, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for her immediate release. Handout / YOUTUBE / AFP
07 November 2021
A citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China's initial response to Covid in...
Teenagers accompanied by parents wait for their turn to receive the BioNtech-Pfizer Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine during the innoculation of the population aged 12-17 at a stadium in San Juan City, suburban Manila on November 3, 2021. Ted ALJIBE / AFP
06 November 2021
The Philippines on Friday lifted restrictions on national obsessions like karaoke and...
The Indian government's chief Covid-19 advisor said there is no clear guidance on whether a third dose is necessary.PHOTO: AFP
14 October 2021
India currently has no plans to give booster doses as some nations have begun doing, the...
13 October 2021
A local militia group called for suspension of Mandalay gem market on 12 October to avoid...
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
12 October 2021
Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Win Myint pleaded not guilty Monday to violating...
Workers stand on the road next to their construction site that has been closed in Yangon on February 1, 2021, as Myanmar's military detained the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's president in a coup. STR / AFP
26 September 2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) this week released growth outlook projections suggesting...
Dr Reiner Fuellmich, head of the Corona Investigation Committee.
19 September 2021
A long-awaited peer-reviewed report by the Berlin-based Corona Investigation Committee...
File) Migrant workers queue in a registration line during a migrant laborer registration drive at a government One Stop Service Center for labor and immigration in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
12 September 2021
In her poem entitled “Home”, British-African poet Warsan Shire wrote, “No one leaves home...
06 September 2021
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a ceremony on Sunday in the city of Ruili in...

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