Taiwan does not seek military confrontation. It hopes for a peaceful, stable, predictable and mutually-beneficial coexistence with its neighbours. But Taiwan will also do whatever it takes to defend its freedom and democratic way of life.

The Sri Lankan government yesterday ended price controls on essential foods in a bid to end black market trading as food shortages worsen amid a foreign currency crisis.

India’s leading salt-to-software manufacturing conglomerate Tata Sons (Tatas) won the bid to acquire 100 percent shares in debt-laden state-run Air India for 18,000 crore rupees, a senior government official said today.

A blast went off Friday at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a Taliban police official said.

Indian and Chinese military were engaged in a brief face-off in Tawang sector of north eastern Indian state Arunachal Pradesh last week, the Indian media reported today.

An earthquake of 5.6 magnitude jolted Myanmar early today, with tremors being felt in parts of Bangladesh.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit southern Pakistan in the early hours of yesterday, killing 20 people, most of them women and children, and injuring about 300, at a time when many victims were asleep, authorities said.

Dengue affects tens of millions each year, producing brutal symptoms that have earned it the moniker “breakbone fever,” but new research may have found the first-ever treatment for the virus.

India will reopen for tourists from October 15 after being closed for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government said yesterday.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas late on Thursday, stopping train lines and causing sporadic power cuts, but there were no reports of major damage, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said.

India today said it would start granting fresh tourist visas to foreigners coming by chartered flights from October 15 and foreign tourists coming by non-chartered flights from November 15.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as a member of the state legislative assembly today, a week after she won the by-poll in the Bhabanipur constituency in south Kolkata by a record margin.

North Korea's most vulnerable risk starvation after it slipped deeper into isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic and UN sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile programmes should be eased, a UN rights investigator said in report seen by Reuters.

India’s Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari plans to make it mandatory for ambulances across the country have instrumental sounds instead of wailing sirens.

Around 20 people have been after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit southern Pakistan in darkness early on Thursday, government officials said.

The Gauhati High Court has taken cognisance of the eviction drive at Dhalpur in Assam’s Darrang district that claimed two lives on September 23.

In a departure from tradition, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will administer the oath to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a member of the state legislative assembly in Kolkata today.

Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in “undesirable social behaviour”, adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns.

India’s school closures and its children’s lack of smartphone and internet facilities amidst the Covid-19 pandemic have worsened an educational divide, the UN cultural agency said, flagging risks to young people’s futures.

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday ordered a probe into his niece’s overseas wealth after she and her husband were alleged in the Pandora Papers to have millions of dollars stashed abroad.