AsiaNews morning roundup. Your daily snapshot of news across the continent: Monday to Saturday, everything people are talking about in Asia today, all in one glance
Today's news: Japan restarts a nuclear power plant built 48 years ago. Putin forgives African debt and promises more grain to African countries. Syrian child worker dies at 13 in Ankara. Indian nuns are hard-pressed to provide care to elderly and sick sisters. In Vietnam archaeologists discover the oldest traces of curry outside India.
Today's headlines: Important Shia holiday celecrated in Kashmir for the first time in over 30 years; Schools closed in China due to typhoon Doksuri; The USA deploys a coast guard ship in Papua New Guinea; In Turkey, environmentalists protest against the expansion of a mine; Japanese diplomacy in the Global South continues; Belarus bans education in the language of an ethnic minority; Families with orphans increase by 30% in Russia.
Today's headlines: as expected, the Cambodian premier Hun Sen will leave the leadership of the government to his son; In Bangladesh, Western ambassadors criticize the repressive pre-election climate; US officials will meet with Taliban representatives; The Red Cross will use Japanese mine detection technology; In China, the number of gamers is increasing; Only 16 out of 54 African heads of state at the summit with Putin.
Today's headlines: along with the foreign minister, the governor of the Chinese Central Bank is also removed; In India protests in support of the Kuki minority of Manipur; Population decline in Japan at record low, but record number of foreigners; Russian and Chinese delegations in first post-Covid North Korean visit; Former premier Thaksin Shinawatra may return to Thailand on 10 August.
Today's headlines: Pyongyang launches two ballistic missiles; Seoul blocks impeachment over Halloween massacre of Itaewon; Vietnam wants to increase the production of rare earths; New arrest warrant for Imran Khan in Pakistan while MPs complain that they have not yet received a firearms licence; Dozens of Rohingya refugees arrested in India.
Today's headlines: Protests in Stepanakert over the situation in Nagorno Karabakh; A ferry sinks in Indonesia; Thailand's government wants to attract foreign directors and producers; School roof collapses in China; Floods in Afghanistan and the rest of the region claim dozens of victims; More details of sexual violence emerge from Manipur; Amman and Damascus meet to curb drug trafficking.
Today's headlines: in Siberia, permafrost melts causing the methane-releasing Batagaika depression to sink further; Israeli army kills two teenagers in the West Bank; U.S. semiconductors in Russia despite sanctions through Maldives; Chinese youth stop at Propaganda Fide in Rome on their way to WYD.
Today's headlines: Xi Jinping meets Kissinger, the architect of thaw with the United States in the seventies; In Afghanistan, 60% of civilian landmine victims are children; Of the 37 political prisoners "disappeared" from Daik-U prison in Myanmar, 6 found dead: the coup junta claims they attempted to escape.
Today's news: One Palestinian dead and four injured in an Israeli raid on Nablus; A shooting rocks New Zealand just hours before the start of the women's soccer world cup; UN warns of increasingly harsh winters in Mongolia, nomadic shepherds risk socio-economic collapse; Card. Zuppi's mission to Washington for peace in Ukraine.
Today's headlines: US soldier voluntarily crosses border with North Korea after being convicted by a court in Seoul; New data on false Covid deaths numbers emerge from figures on Zhejiang province cremations; Opium production increases in Afghanistan; Putin strikes deal with Iran to supply electricity from Middle Eastern country.
Today's headlines: Hun Sen blocks Radio Free Asia and other news sites on election eve; Tens of thousands of people evacuated in South China and Vietnam as Typhoon Talim passes through; in New Delhi Yamuna River flooding displaced return to their homes; Ukrainian counteroffensive attacks target Crimea, Moscow is threatens a Wagner mercenary attack on the Suwalki corridor.
Today's headlines: in South Korea the number of victims of monsoon rains rises to 39; China's economy grows, but at a very slow pace and may not reach the minimum target set by the Party; Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan flare up again in Nagorno Karabakh; In the Yemeni waters of the Red Sea, the UN ship operation to recover crude oil from an oil tanker begins.
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