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Today's news: only 51.7% of South Koreans want to get married, 28.3% intend to have children 'with certainty'; Hanoi reports annual crop losses of three billion dollars, Mekong Delta in crisis; Elections in India scheduled between 19 April and early June; The Israeli government instituted the annual national day of remembrance of the 'catastrophe' on 7 October; Russian President Putin re-elected with 87.17% of the vote.

Today's news: In the Philippines, hundreds of people locked up in online scam centres freed; In Pakistan, PM Sharif builds bridges with Imran Khan's party; South-East Asia boycotts Israeli dates, despite the Ramadan period; Novaja Evropa publishes a 'guide of countries to avoid' for anti-war Russians who migrated abroad; At least 50,000 migrants from Central Asia arrived in the US via Mexico in 2023.

Today's news: Police clashes lead to land redistribution in Cambodia; In Hong Kong, testimony in the trial of Jimmy Lai may have been collected under torture; In Pakistan, access to X continues to be blocked; 85% of Indians are in favour of a military government; In Russia 10,000 migrants from Kenya will arrive.

Today's news: a Japanese satellite rocket explodes; In China, the number of foreclosed homes increases; Seafarers in the Philippines may avoid taking jobs in high-risk areas; Indonesian presidential candidate Anies Baswedan will appeal election results to the Constitutional Court; After a month on bail for Fr. Pinto arrested on charges of "conversions" in Uttar Pradesh.

Today's news: India wants to implement anti-Muslim citizenship law Pakistan police clashed with supporters of Imran Khan's party. In China, arrests increased by 47% in one year. Indonesia underestimates its methane emissions from coal production. Malaysia will reduce the number of migrant workers.

Today's news: at least 26 victims in Indonesia due to heavy rain; Ramadan begins amidst tensions surrounding the war in Gaza; A North Korean delegation leaves for Mongolia; In Russia, the commission to reconcile blood conflicts has resolved 13 cases since the beginning of the year.

Today's news: consumer prices in China rise for the first time in six months, driven by the New Year; Punjab, blasphemy: 22-year-old student sentenced to death for Whatsapp messages, a 17-year-old to life imprisonment; UN enquiry: Iran responsible for 'physical violence' that killed Mahsa Amini; Settlement and settler attacks in the West Bank reacheshttps://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/china-economy-consumer-prices-february-chinese-new-year-4183161 record levels.

Today's news: Biden announces temporary port in Gaza for aid but without explaining who would distribute it; Pyongyang artillery exercises targeting Seoul; Few monsoon rains, Bengaluru is already without water even before summer. Nagorno Karabakh exiles protest in Yerevan.

Today's news: Another Indian enlisted by the Russians dead at the front in Ukraine; Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attacks Washington over wanting to suppress China; Pakistan's Supreme Court deems 44 year old trial that led to Ali Bhutto's death sentence unfair; In Bangladesh a university lecturer shoots a student during an argument at an exam.

Today's news: Premier Li Qiang wants to focus on the consumption of Chinese internal migrants to boost the economy; In North Korea, forced labour in nuclear plants; Philippine tour operators want direct flights from Mindanao to Mecca for the Hajj; In Russia 180 private companies nationalised in two years for the war in Ukraine.

Today's news: in China military spending will increase again by 7.2%; Taiwan forced to apologize to India for some statements by the Minister of Labor on the color of migrants' skin; From July, entry costs 13 dollars to follow the path that goes up Mount Fuji; Fear but little significant damage in the earthquake in Astana.

Today's news: In Pakistan Shebaz Sharif wins confidence as prime minister amid protests from Imran Khan MPs; US Vice President Kamala Harris calls for "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza; Government crisis in Nepal; Yingluck Shinawatra also acquitted in Thailand; Chaos in Kazakhstan over adoption of single time zone.