A metro train is pictured on the new Noida Metro Railway Network ahead of its opening in Noida, near the Indian capital New Delhi. Photo: AFP
01 September 2021
India's economy expanded by a record 20.1 percent between April and June, official data...
31 August 2021
Myanmar citizens in Japan protested on August 30 in support of Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun as...
This photo shows boys reacting during a mass circumcision at a covered court in Silang town, Cavite province. The Philippines has one of the highest rates of circumcision in the world, with many seeing the centuries-old practice as key for boys to enter manhood. Maria Tan / AFP
30 August 2021
For more than a year, Caspien Gruta has been teased because his circumcision -- a rite of...
An auto rickshaw driver receives a jab of CoviShield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus during a free vaccination drive for the drivers in Bangalore on August 25, 2021. Manjunath Kiran / AFP
30 August 2021
India has given more than 10 million Covid-19 jabs in a single day for the first time,...
Rohingya refugees walk along a path at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2021. Tanbir Miraj / AFP
28 August 2021
Hundreds of children this week defied a ban on protests at Rohingya refugee camps in...
This file photo taken on June 24, 2021 shows a woman taking a photo of the Apple Daily newspaper's final edition in Hong Kong after the pro-democracy tabloid was forced to close after 26 years under a sweeping new national security law. Photo: AFP
27 August 2021
Hong Kong activists are working in the shadows to preserve digital backups of their...
Photo: EPA
25 August 2021
Three men were arrested by the Manipur police in India for allegedly trying to smuggle...
A man walks past a Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games banner at the entrance to the Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo on August 19, 2021. Photo: AFP
23 August 2021
Japan refused to issue visas for two Myanmar diplomats appointed by the military junta,...
(File) A group of Rohingya refugees onboard in a naval ship as they arrive in Bhashan Char Island, in Noakhali, Bangladesh, 29 December 2020. Photo: EPA
22 August 2021
Bangladeshi authorities said this week they had recovered the bodies of 11 Rohingya who...
A student wearing a face mask and gloves uses his mobile phone as he leaves a high school in Beijing.
21 August 2021
China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting...
Photo: Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh chief Junaid Babunagari
21 August 2021
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday attended the funeral of the firebrand leader of...
This photo taken on July 21, 2021 shows an elephant "kissing" a woman during a show at Wild Elephant Valley, a nature reserve for wild elephants that also features elephant-themed shows for tourists, in Xishuangbanna in southwest China's Yunnan province. Photo: AFP
20 August 2021
Ma Mingliang rarely encountered wild elephants while growing up in southwestern China,...

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