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Nepal's House of Representatives members sign as they vote on an amendment to update the national emblem with a new controversial political map in Kathmandu. (AFP)

Nepal votes to pass bill that incorporates 3 key Indian areas into map

Nepal last month released the revised political and administrative map of the country laying claim over the strategically key areas

18 Jun 2020 3:23 PM

A worker places trays of food in the seafood section of a supermarket in Beijing on June 17, 2020. (AFP)

Beijing says it must improve hygiene in markets after new outbreak

The resurgence of COVID-19 in the country’s capital over the past week has been linked to the city’s massive Xinfadi food centre

18 Jun 2020 10:01 AM

Chinese security personnel patrol outside the Indian embassy in Beijing Wednesday, June 17, 2020. (AP)

China suffered 35 casualties during Galwan clash: US intelligence reports

China has not yet talked about the number of casualties suffered by the People's Liberation Army during the clash

17 Jun 2020 1:10 PM

Chinese police officers wearing masks shelter in the shade near a portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. (AP)

Chinese state media hesitant to reveal casualties on their side

China's defence ministry confirmed late Tuesday that there had been casualties without revealing how many

17 Jun 2020 11:10 AM

Closely monitoring India-China situation, says US

Twenty Indian Army personnel including a colonel were killed in the clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh

17 Jun 2020 10:38 AM

Medical staff members (R and L) in full protective gear carry signs to assist people who live near or who have visited the Xinfadi Market, a wholesale food market where a new COVID-19 coronavirus cluster has emerged, for testing at the Guang’an sports centre in Beijing on June 16, 2020.(AFP)

Beijing schools closed again as city finds 31 more virus cases

The new cases have raised fears of a second wave of infections as China had largely brought its domestic outbreak under control

17 Jun 2020 8:27 AM

security personnel wearing a protective suit stands guard at a residential area under lockdown near Yuquan East Market in Beijing on June 15, 2020.(AFP)

Beijing locks down more districts as new virus outbreak gathers pace

After nearly two months with no new infections, Beijing now has 79 cases reported linked to a single wholesale food market

15 Jun 2020 5:43 PM

CRPF personnel patrol Jammu-Srinagar national highway at Nagrota outskirts, in Jammu. (PTI)

Pakistan rejects Rajnath Singh's remarks about Pak-occupied Kashmir

Pakistan's foreign office alleges Sigh's remarks were a 'desperate' attempt to divert attention from Jammu and Kashmir

15 Jun 2020 1:58 PM

A health official wearing protective gear takes blood sample of a man at a drive-through screening and testing facility for the COVID-19 coronavirus, alongside a street in Islamabad. (AFP)

Pakistan's coronavirus tally crosses 140,000-mark

29,085 tests were done in the last 24 hours taking the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the country to 897,650

15 Jun 2020 1:23 PM

A voter casts his vote during a mock election to test the guidelines implemented against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Ingiriya of Kalutara District in Western Province on June 14, 2020. (AFP)

Sri Lanka holds mock election to test virus measures

The island nation of 21 million people has steadily lifted its lockdown restrictions, although a night curfew remains

14 Jun 2020 8:28 PM

Pride events kick off in Shanghai

Social distancing restrictions, imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have largely been lifted in Shanghai in recent months

14 Jun 2020 3:48 PM

Chinese police guard the entrance to the closed Xinfadi market in Beijing. (AFP)

Could Beijing become another Wuhan?

Concerns grow about a new cluster as China reports highest daily count since April

14 Jun 2020 9:10 AM

People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020. - Beijing's Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. (AFP)

Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus infections

Authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale markets in Beijing

13 Jun 2020 10:20 AM

Rescuers carry a child to a boat during an evacuation of a flooded village in Qingyuan in southern China's Guangdong province. (AP)

At least 20 people dead or missing as rains flood South China

Nearly 3 million people have been affected by the floods with 228,000 forced to seek shelter and 1,300 homes destroyed

11 Jun 2020 6:29 PM

People wear face masks to protect against the coronavirus as they walk at a retail and office complex in Beijing. (AP)

In post-lockdown China, schools grapple with sudden jump in student suicides

The heightened post-lockdown anxiety has become a matter of government concern as domestic media report a spate of suicides by young people

11 Jun 2020 10:24 AM

Commuters return from the capital city of Islamabad, in Rawalpindi. (AFP)

WHO calls for 'intermittent' lockdowns in Pakistan as virus surges

Hospitals across Pakistan say they are at or near capacity, and some are turning COVID-19 patients away

10 Jun 2020 1:58 PM

Nepal’s foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali points to a map of Nepal. (AP)

Nepal ‘still waiting for a response from India’ to resolve border dispute

Nepal's Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali says requests to talk were made in November and December last year, and again in May

10 Jun 2020 10:33 AM

Journalists chat near a screen showing President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan. (AP)

China dismisses Harvard study suggesting virus spread started in August

The research used satellite imagery of hospital parking lots in Wuhan and data for symptom-related queries on search engines

10 Jun 2020 9:26 AM

Government officials seal shut a barber shop for not observing the standard operating procedures issued by the Pakistan government to contain the spread of coronavirus, in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP)

Pakistan puts foot down on safety breaches as coronavirus cases top 100,000

Pakistan has been setting records for the number of new daily infections over the last 10 days, partly reflecting increased testing

08 Jun 2020 3:53 PM

Xu Lin, Vice head of the Publicity Department of Communist Party shows a copy of the white paper on fighting COVID-19 China in action during a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing. (AP)

China defends COVID-19 response in new report

The report lauds China’s success in reducing the daily increase in new cases to single digits within about two months

07 Jun 2020 1:43 PM

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