At least 15 people were killed, and hundreds were injured in a massive fire in a slum-built refugee camp in Bangladesh. Nothing is yet known about the fate of…
Soldiers from India and China have come to blows again in the Himalayan border region. There would have been injuries on both sides. The Indian army speaks of a “small…
Indonesia stops searching for victims of the recent plane crash with 62 dead. The search for the second black box of Sriwijaya Air’s Boeing 737-500 continues. The plane crashed…
Vaccination against the coronavirus has started in Indonesia. President Joko Widodo received the very first shot in the presidential palace. “Vaccination is important to break the chain of corona…
Sinovac Biotech’s Chinese corona vaccine has been declared halal by Indonesia’s highest religious council. That means that Muslims in the country are allowed to use the vaccine without violating…
The third attempt to end the fighting between the Azerbaijani army and the Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh has failed. Both sides blame each other for the “gross violation” of…
Tensions in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia are mounting now that the president has announced the deployment of troops to restore order in the capital Bishkek. There is restlessness there…
The Afghan government released some 200 detained Taliban members early this week. The extremist insurgents, in turn, released six members of the elite Afghan forces. The government has also…
Since the end of last week, the number of domestic infections with the new coronavirus has been flaring up in the Chinese capital Beijing. It is the largest outbreak…
In Hong Kong, police use tear gas and pepper pellets to disperse demonstrators in the city’s financial centre. Hundreds of people have also been arrested. The protesters come together…