Many of the balloons failed to make it over the border and ended up causing pollution inside South Korea, while also putting a burden upon local people to dispose of them, a spoke ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea to ban balloon leafleting of North
Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, ending a propaganda exercise that has taken place for decades.Activists would tie the leaflets to balloons and float them over the border for North Korean ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea weighs tougher Covid-19 restrictions to stem third wave
South Korea is considering raising Covid-19 restrictions to the highest level as the country struggles to contain a third wave of infections. Chung Sye-kyun, South Korea’s prime minister, on Monday ... ( read original story ...)
Live COVID-19 updates: Myanmar’s cases increase to 109,512, deaths reach 2,292
The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - YANGON -- The number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increas ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand’s Democratic Reform Drive Goes Local with Provincial Elections
KUALA LUMPUR - In Thailand, a group of ex-lawmakers shut out of national politics by a controversial court order is taking its reform agenda to the provinces by backing like-minded candidates in local ... ( read original story ...)
State of emergency in Thailand’s south extended for another 3 months
Thailand's Emergency Situation Administration Committee (ESAC), chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, announced on Monday that the state of emergency in Thailand's restive southern border ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand reports 28 new COVID-19 cases including frontline healthcare worker
Situation Administration (CCSA) on Monday recorded 28 new COVID-19 cases, including a frontline healthcare worker who contracted the virus while on duty at an alternative state quarantine facility. ( read original story ...)
Iran president says Israel was behind killing of scientist
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Monday claimed that Israel was behind the killing of a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s ... ( read original story ...)
Iran’s ballistic missile program is non-negotiable, President Hassan Rouhani says
"There is one JCPOA that has been negotiated and agreed, either everyone commits to it or they don't," Rouhani said, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal. ( read original story ...)
US blames Iran in abduction, death of ex-FBI agent Levinson
The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two ... ( read original story ...)