Asia Today

Today's headlines: Moscow disbands "Memorial", the association that documented human rights violations; more civilian homes burned by the Burmese Army; Beijing aims for global dominance in robotics by 2025. Inauguration of the world's highest road in India in the foothills of the Himalayas.

In Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai faces additional charges of "seditious publications"; India seeks secessionist Sikh leader arrest in Germany; Seoul opposes nomination of Japan's Sado mines to World Heritage list, over use of Korean forced labour; Moscow fines Google 7.2 billion roubles for failing to block "forbidden information".

Today's headlines: the Omicron variant advances in Asia; Delhi's reimposes a night-time curfew; Japan's government will not send an official delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics; Israel wants to double its population on the Golan Heights disputed with Syria. Metropolitan Ilarion: the meeting between Pope Francis and Moscow Patriarch Kirill will be "in a third country" and "certainly after Easter".

In Hong Kong, two more universities remove statues in memory of Tiananmen; Hun Sen prepares ground for his son's succession to power in Cambodia; Moon Jae-in grants a pardon to former president Park Geun-hye; at least 30 dead and 100 injured in Bangladesh after a fire on board a ferry.

Today's headlines: China has been blocking visits to Tibetan political prisoners for a year under the pretext of the pandemic; A Yangon court has sentenced more than 90 people to death since the military coup in February; Colombo wants to trade tea for its oil debts with Iran; radical Indian leaders close to Modi are calling for ethnic cleansing of minorities, especially Muslims.

Today's headlines:High school students in India refuse canteen food cooked by a dalit; in Fukushima an underwater tunnel is being studied to pour radioactive water into the sea; one person is dead and dozens are missing in a jade mine accident in Myanmar; in China a 66 million years old dinosaur embryo has been discovered.

Today's headlines:Rise of Taliban heavily impacts news from Afghanistan; 82% of female journalists have lost their jobs; Beijing sends aid for typhoon victims in the Philippines; Turkish citizens' distrust of the country's economic prospects grows; Pyongyang commemorates 10 years since Kim Jong-il's death.

Today's headlines: the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa returned to Earth after 12 days on the space station; new protests in Iran against the execution of a 48-year-old Kurd; the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai retracts abuse charges against the former vice-premier, amid fears she is being manipulated; Islamic states gathered in Pakistan pledge fund for the Afghan crisis; in India a man lynched for sacrilege.

Today's headlines: A record low turnout expected in tomorrow's Hong Kong legislative elections. China's energy sector to reach peak emissions in 2025. New alert in Indoensia for Semeru volcano. Israeli settlers raid a Palestinian village. Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on a joint railway. Navy diserter flees Russia. India tests new nuclear missile.

Today's headlines: 19 confirmed dead in a fire in Japan; Burmese junta sentences Rohingya who tried to flee the country to 5 years in prison; from April to June this year only two North Korean defectors arrived in the South; Palestinian embroidery added to UNESCO intangible heritage list.

In today's headlines: Indonesian migrants are rescued off the coast of Malaysia; Typhoon Rai heads towards the Philippines; Russia overtakes the US in arms exports; Japanese beverage company Kirin wants to continue doing business in Myanmar.

Today's headlines: a hundred people are stuck on the roof of the World Trade Center in Hong Kong, after a fire broke out; Covid-19 cases in Korea rise again; in Kashmir, three Indian policemen are killed in an armed attack; the U.S. suspends the sale of F-35s to the Emirates; Naval'nyj recounts price increases in his penal colony via Telegram.