Asia Today

Today's news: Phone call between Biden and Xi Jinping; Most Japanese feel insecure economically; In Thailand, the Move Forward party is getting closer to disbanding; Chinese military exercises on the border with Myanmar; New winds of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Today's news: Pakistani court suspends sentence against former premier Imran Khan; Southeast Asians would rather side with China than the US; Pyongyang launches another missile towards the coast; King of Malaysia signals the end of 'honeymoon' for head of Anti-Corruption Commission; In Kazakhstan this year's floods were the most disastrous in three decades.

Today's news: Economic growth is expected in all developing Asian countries excluding China; In India, Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, will be jailed for another 15 days; In South Korea, a series of cameras were discovered at polling stations for the upcoming elections.

Today's other news: Indonesia's new president will travel to China tomorrow. In Thailand, court drops terrorism charges against dozens of "yellow shirts" involved in street protest in 2008. Radio Free Asia shuts down its office in Hong Kong over concerns about staff safety. After the Moscow attack, Russia is preventing people from Central Asia from entering the country.

Today's news: dozens dead in an Israeli raid near Damascus, while the Netanyahu government risks a crisis over the recruitment of the ultra-Orthodox; One of those arrested for the Krokus Hall massacre in Moscow attended the Fatikh mosque in Istanbul; Bangkok wants to legalise casinos; A Filipino in Pampanga gets himself crucified for the thirty-fifth time on Good Friday.

Today's news: Xiaomi will also enter the electric car market; Indonesian parliament votes law to keep Indonesia's economic heartland in Jakarta after capital's move to Nusantara; Phone conversation between Putin and Vietnamese Communist Party Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng; In Mohammad bin Salman's 'new course' Saudi Arabia will participate in Miss Universe.

Today's news: new deaths in Israel and Lebanon in the war front with Hezbollah. The Singapore ship that caused the Baltimore disaster had passed two overhauls last year. Mumbai overtakes Beijing in number of billionaires. Russian dissident Kara-Murza's wife: prisoner exchanges with Moscow political prisoners to save their lives.

Today's news: Netanyahu's wrath after Gaza ceasefire resolution passed at UN with US abstention; New attack by independentists in Balochistan against Chinese investments in the region; The Taliban in Kabul also condemn the Moscow massacre; Pašinyan and Kobakhidze sign a memorandum of strategic cooperation between Armenia and Georgia.

Today's news: Pyongyang reports meeting proposal launched by Japanese PM Kishida; Philippines summons Chinese chargé d'affaires after renewed clashes in the South China Sea.;In a house in Ventiane 16 bear cubs are rescued; The exceptional cold wave in Mongolia does not subside, putting a strain on families.

Today's news: Israel decrees 800 hectares of "state land" in the Jordan Valley, a premise for new settlements; Chinese coast guard damages Philippine vessel with water cannons in disputed sea area; In one area of India, half of the farm workers have undergone hysterectomies; New clash between Seoul and Tokyo on Japanese history books; In Tajikistan a law decrees that students must walk to school.

Today's news: at the UN Security Council the US ceasefire resolution; India's leading delivery company removes the word 'pure' from vegetarian deliveries after controversy over the expression's caste connotation; In Japan, a claim for compensation for illness caused by an environmental disaster is rejected due to 'expired terms'; Malaysia will not host the Commonwealth Games.

Today's news: Bangkok court convicts Chinese businessman and three accomplices for running a surrogate mother circuit; Agreement between IMF and Islamabad to allocate a first tranche of $1.1 billion; Aramco will increase gas production by 60%; Two Vietnamese pro-minority activists sentenced to prison for 'abuse of democratic freedoms'.