Asia

Iran has reversed a months-long slowdown in the rate at which it is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday. Many diplomats believed the slowdown, which had begun by June,…

Asia's economy is expected to grow by 4.8 percent in 2023 and 2024, up from 4.2 percent in 2022, thanks to China's removal of strict pandemic restrictions, according to the Asian Development Bank. China's reopening following the end…

More Asian governments are putting prices on emissions to try and curb global warming, but the region's carbon markets and taxes are mostly off to slow and disappointing starts. Carbon prices in China and South Korea are at just…

More than one billion methamphetamine pills were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, a record figure that the United Nations says highlights a "staggering" increase in the regional synthetic drug trade. Meth production and…

On December 20, 2021, Mr. Kaewboonkhong Kotiwet committee "Valerie Hak Phaeng River of" Wiang Cook Subdistrict, Mueang Nong Khai District, Nong Khai Province, the company disclosed that after the meeting to plan the completion of the…

Volunteers at a animal shelter in one of areas worst-hit by floods in Malaysia staged an eleventh-hour rescue of 120 cats and dogs in lorries as waters rose around its premises. More than 60,000 people have been displaced and at least 17…

Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Tuesday (Dec 21) acknowledged "weaknesses" in flood management as the blame game began over the slow response in the country to one of the most devastating floods in recent memory, …

Thailand will suspend its quarantine-free entry scheme from Wednesday (Dec 22) amid concerns over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Foreign visitors who had earlier registered for the Test and Go scheme can still enter the country…

The death toll from a typhoon that slammed into the Philippines rose to 12 on Friday (Dec 17), and its president feared it could climb further as authorities assess the devastation caused by one of the strongest tropical storms to hit the…

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court on Friday (Dec 17) wearing a white top and a brown wraparound longyi that is the typical uniform for prisoners in the South-east Asian country, a source with knowledge of the court…