Asia Today

Today's headlines: China has imposed a lockdown on Shenzhen; in the Philippines Marcos continues to lead the polls, but is the last choice of investors; Iran has launched 12 missiles against Erbil; today in Kyrgyzstan professional cowboy competitions begin.

Today’s other news: Putin places Russian counterintelligence leaders under house arrest. On the sidelines of the Antalya meeting, the Taliban foreign minister tries to break the isolation of the Afghan emirate. In Hong Kong, bags with dead COVID-19 patients left next to living patients. India accidentally fires missile into Pakistan. Turkmenistan goes to the polls but the election of Berdymukhamedov's son is a foregone conclusion.

Today's headlines: Japan holds prayer service to commemorate the 2011 Fukushima disaster; The Pentagon accuses North Korea of prepareing an intercontinental missile test; The Philippines is ready to give US bases for Ukriane war effort; After European sanctions, Belarus looks to Asia for its wood industry; A drone attack targets a Saudi refinery.

Today's headlines: More and more Russian oligarchs call for a halt to the war in Ukraine; Independent Russian journalists flee to Georgia; Chinese internet users support Russian invasion; Russia and Japan clash over Kuril Islands; 200 Cambodian workers from the NagaWorld casino are released.

Today's headlines: Christian activist demanding investigation into Xuzhou chained woman's case arrested in China; South Korea seizes North Korean fishing boat despite North's military intervention; More than 7,000 Russian tourists stranded in Thailand;. Kazakhstan takes advantage of Western sanctions against Russia; The Indian government repatriates 17,100 nationals from Ukraine.

Today's headlines: Vietnam denounces Chinese naval exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin; Macau prays for Hong Kong in pandemic crisis; Russian lawyers advise priests to be cautious in their prayers for peace in Ukraine; Demonstrations in Kazakhstan against Russian invasion; New security criteria for Palestinian companies in the West Bank; Exit poll: Modi would win Uttar Pradesh elections.

Today's headlines: trade between Russia and China grows 38.5% in January and February; the Orthodox patriarchs of Moscow and Alexandria clash; South Korean widens sanctions against Moscow; More than 100 Rohingya refugees found starving on an Indonesian beach; Iran criticises Russian interference in US nuclear deal negotiations; Indian wheat exports hit record levels.

Today's headlines: Ukrainian power plant staff in Zaporozhets, work under the threat of (Russian) weapons; Pakistan and Uzbekistan strengthen bilateral collaboration; Beijing may shelve its "zero Covid" policy in favour of a softer "coexistence" approach; Iranian court clears nine Christians of charges of threatening national security; in Thailand 33-year-old man convicted of lese-majesty; new missile test by Pyongyang.

Today's headlines: protests against the war in Ukraine continue in St Petersburg and other Russian cities, with hundreds of arrests; Israel expropriates Jerusalem's Alexander Nevsky Church from the Russians; the majority party in Georgia wants to speed up its entry into the EU; the Pope will visit East Timor by the end of the year.

Today's headlines: dozens of arrests in Russia among those demonstrating against the war in Ukraine; Russian companies relocate to Armenia to escape sanctions, hundreds more are waiting; Armenian MPs donate blood for Ukrainian hospitals; an Indonesian priest who made an "invaluable" contribution to the development of liturgy has died at 84; new Israeli air raids in southern Syria.

Today's headlines: dozens of priests and deacons from the Moscow Patriarchate sign an appeal for an end to the "fratricidal war"; Chinese companies operating in Russia have started asking for advance payments; Pyongyang hid the invasion of Ukraine for days and blamed the imperialist West; Hong Kong activist convicted under anti-sedition law; in India four Christians arrested on false conversion charges.

Today's headlines: A Christian family in Laos attacked on charges of practising a "foreign religion"; opposition parties in Georgia call for the blocking of TV broadcasts from Moscow; more than 3,000 Russians arrested for protesting against the war in Ukraine; Hong Kong ejects dozens of domestic workers because Covid-19 positive; migrant workers and Afghan, Indian and Nepalese students flee from Ukraine.