U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Vietnam on Thursday and Friday as part of a tour of Asia, the Vietnamese government said. ( read original story ...)
Typhoon-battered Philippines bracing for another strengthening tropical system
After a brutal blow from Typhoon Molave, many of the hardest-hit communities in the Philippines will have little time to recover as another tropical system sets its sights on the nation.Early ... ( read original story ...)
The two-week season: coronavirus shrinks Philippines football league
In a year of coronavirus chaos for sports, the Philippines Football League has come up with an extreme solution: shortening the competition to just two weeks, with each team playing only once. ( read original story ...)
Marise Payne declines to welcome adoption of net zero emissions target by Japan and South Korea
The foreign minister Marise Payne says Australia “acknowledges” decisions by Japan and South Korea to adopt net zero targets for 2050, but she has declined to welcome that development, despite ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Shionogi readies COVID-19 vaccine for December trial: CEO
Shionogi & Co is planning clinical trials by year-end for what may be one of Japan's first domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines to reach the market, as the globe races to secure enough doses to ... ( read original story ...)
From relentless to clueless: the story behind England’s collapse in Japan
It is almost a year ago now, and still we are trying to make sense of it. On the last Saturday of October England defeated the All Blacks, the reigning back-to-back world champions, with what many ... ( read original story ...)
Erdogan to visit Bangladesh next year: Foreign Minister
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may visit Bangladesh to attend the Mujib Borsho celebrations in March next year."If Covid situation is good, he will come in person. We are working on it," ... ( read original story ...)
China Warns of ‘Cold War’ After US-India Talks, Pakistan Protests Terror Accusations
China has warned that the United States is pursuing another Cold War in its talks with India, which Pakistan also protested as a result of a longstanding territorial and human rights dispute. U.S. ( read original story ...)
‘Fear of attack by India forced Pakistan to release IAF pilot Abhinandan’: Report
Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman had landed in Pakistani custody following an aerial dogfight between Indian and Pakistani pilots a day after the Balakot airstrikes in 2019. He was released a few ... ( read original story ...)
Blasphemy Cases Against Shi’ite Community Surge in Pakistan
Human rights activists are voicing concern over a recent increase of blasphemy accusations against the Shiite minority community in Pakistan. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan ... ( read original story ...)