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Asia

23 Jan
Twenty people are confirmed dead and 24 remain missing after a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of China's southwestern province of Yunnan, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. The disaster struck on...
23 Jan
At least fifty people were injured after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck along the mountainous China-Kyrgyzstan border on Tuesday, according to the authorities. Local authorities dispatched a team to the quake's...
23 Jan
Two people were sent to hospital on Tuesday afternoon following an explosion near the area where a Shinkansen bullet train was halted in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, local media reported. The company said...
23 Jan
On Tuesday, rescuers raced to find dozens of people still trapped after a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China, killing 11.The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the...
23 Jan
A Japanese man who admitted starting a fire that killed 36 people at an anime studio in 2019 faces a possible death sentence on Thursday when a court delivers its verdict. Shinji Aoba faces five charges including...
22 Jan
A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced nine people to death after being convicted of involvement in one of the country's largest drug trafficking cases in months, state media reported. They were found guilty...
22 Jan
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a Hindu temple Monday built on the ruins of a historical mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya for his re-election campaign this year. The inauguration of the...
22 Jan
Japan switched off its Moon lander almost three hours after a historic touchdown to allow for a possible recovery of the craft when the sun hits its solar panels, the space agency said on Monday. With its unmanned...
22 Jan
Seven critically endangered Javan slow lorises were released into the jungles of Indonesia's Gunung Halimun Salak National Park on Java Island on Friday. These primates, endemic to the island, were...
22 Jan
Dozens of people were buried and three confirmed killed when a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China on Monday. The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of...

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