Asia Today

Today's news: Vietnam convokes an extraordinary session of parliament; Beijing rewards the Burmese junta crackdown with a medal and money; Turkish Airlines resumes connections with Afghanistan, four flights a week between Istanbul and Kabul; First two phases of marathon election in India record lower turnout for 2019 Lok Sabha vote

Today's news: The Afghan Taliban launch a nationwide anti-polio campaign; US court sentences Chinese student to prison for stalking threats against compatriot 'pro-democracy' campaigner; Casualties and new school closures due to heat wave in India and Bangladesh; Another two-year sentence for Thai activist in prison for lese majesty.

Today's headlines: Qatar and Bangladesh sign a memorandum on migrant workers. Myanmar’s military retakes a village on the Mon-Karen border. Taiwan denounces Chinese military activities after Blinken's departure. Syrian woman gets seven life sentences over the Istanbul attack of November 2022. Russia has lost its dominant position as India’s main arms supplier.

Today's news: ByteDance does not want to sell TikTok; Indians' savings at 47-year low;. Japan will prevent foreign tourists from photographing Mount Fuji from some areas; Ties between Russia and Sri Lanka strengthen.

Today's headlines: Extreme heat in South Asia and Southeast Asia force the authorities to close schools. Indian Prime Minister Modi said that he has invited Pope Francis to India. South Korea's GDP is up. Turkmenistan restricts the public expression of religion. Russia's state-owned company Gazprom is set to sponsor a Hungarian football club.

Today's news: Appeal hearing for Cardinal Zen and other pro-democracy activists in the appeal against convictions set for January; A North Korean delegation is in Iran; The Taliban's Afghanistan continues to export coal to Pakistan; In Russia, floods also devastated old uranium mines.

Today's news: Indonesia's Constitutional Court rejected two appeals on elections; Japan is investigating the disappearance of a Chinese professor; Heat wave disruptions continue in South Asia; New agreements between Iraq and Turkey on Kurdish repression; Bans against migrant workers in Russia multiply.

Today's news: rockets from Iraq against an American base in Syria; Seven Japanese soldiers after a collision between two helicopters during an exercise; In the Maldives, the party of pro-Chinese president Muizzu wins the parliamentary elections; In Vietnam, the assistant to the president of the National Assembly was also arrested; Azerbaijan is eliminating traces of the Armenian presence in Nagorno Karabakh.

Today's news: China reorganises the army's cyber-warfare unit; Voter turnout in India over 60%; New missile tests from North Korea; Russia will take in 1,500 refugees from the Gaza Strip.

Today's news: Israeli raid in Iran, for Tehran nuclear sites 'intact'; China, Japan and South Korea voted to recognise Palestine at UN in resolution blocked by US veto; Terrorist attack in Karachi, five Japanese unhurt; The ground in half of China's cities is subsiding due to water extraction; Russia started the withdrawal of its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh now in the hands of Baku.

Today's news: Qatar threatens a step back in its role as mediator with Hamas as Gaza talks stall; Biden wants to triple tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from China; A popular anti-war fairy tale called 'terrorism' by a Russian court. Armenia establishes a day to remember the Yazidi genocide.

Today's news: 29 Maoist rebels killed in an operation in India; Quantity of a year and a half of rain falls on Dubai in a few hours: airport paralysed; In China there is alarm over water consumption by data centres and artificial intelligence; South Korea doubles rice sent to food emergency countries.