Thailand Stay Perfect as Myanmar Rout Laos 7-2
A late Waris Choolthong header beat the Philippines and took Thailand to nine points, while Myanmar hit seven past Laos to move level with…
Category: Asia
Dollar Drops Against Yen After US and Japan Confirm Rare Joint Intervention
Tokyo and Washington say they bought yen jointly on Friday after the currency hit a 40-year low. The dollar fell about 1 per cent…
Myanmar Releases Rare Photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi Meeting a Red Cross Official
The military-backed government says the detained Nobel laureate, 81, met the ICRC representative in Naypyitaw. Her son says nobody has briefed him on her…
Indonesian Ferry Fire Leaves Five Dead and an Unknown Number Missing off East Java
The Mutiara Sentosa 2 caught fire between Surabaya and Makassar. Officials say they cannot yet confirm how many people were on board when it…
Vietnam Beat Indonesia 3-0 to Top ASEAN Cup Group
The defending champions won in Bogor to lead Group A on seven points, while Cambodia beat Timor-Leste 3-0 in Phnom Penh for their first…
Dengue Climbs Sharply Across Asia and the Pacific
Vietnam logged over 50,000 cases to May, roughly two and a half times last year, as dengue totals across the region passed 238,000 in…
Cambodia Out of ASEAN Cup Despite First Win
Cambodia beat Timor-Leste 3-0 for a first win but remain eliminated, while defending champions Vietnam won 3-0 in Indonesia to move top of Group…
Kospi Falls 5% as Chip Rally Unwinds Across Asia
Seoul gave back much of Friday's record 17.9% rally as Samsung and SK Hynix fell near 9%, while yen intervention pushed Japan's Nikkei down…
Singapore Lead ASEAN Cup Group as Vietnam Visit Indonesia
Singapore top Group A on seven points as defending champions Vietnam travel to Indonesia and a winless Cambodia host Timor-Leste in Monday ASEAN Cup…
India Take 39 Medals for Fourth at Commonwealth Games
India finished the Glasgow Commonwealth Games fourth with 39 medals, led by a record boxing haul of 10 and its most successful para campaign…
After the long wait, Shivakumar gets to govern
D.K. Shivakumar was sworn in as Karnataka chief minister at Lok Bhavan in Bengaluru on 3 June, taking the oath from Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot…
The students won a minister. That is not the same as winning India.
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Union Education Minister on 25 July after seven weeks of protest by a movement almost nobody in Delhi had heard…
Chained on a Punjab Dairy Farm, a Tamil Nadu Man Goes Home After 23 Years
Prakash left Coimbatore in 2003 after a family quarrel. Rescued in 2022 from a Punjab dairy farm where he was allegedly chained, he is…