BEIJING: China has logged its hottest August since records began, state media reported Tuesday (Sep 6), following an unusually intense summer heatwave that parched rivers, scorched crops and triggered isolated blackouts. Southern China last month sweltered under what experts said may have been one of the worst heatwaves in globalContinue Reading
Are COVID-19 tests and quarantine still needed? Here’s a look at the requirements across key Asian destinations, including Japan and South Korea.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Taiwan has removed Singapore, Malaysia and a host of other countries from an initial list of nations announced as eligible for visa-free entry starting next week. On Monday (Sep 5), a table published online by Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs showed that visitors from Singapore and Malaysia among other countries wereContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s government expressed its condolences to China on Tuesday (Sep 6) for an earthquake in Sichuan province and said it was ready to send rescuers, in a sign of goodwill to Beijing despite weeks of military tensions. China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory despite the strongContinue Reading
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Continuous heavy rain is considered unusual in September and the increasingly unpredictable weather pattern has depleted crop yield by about 20 per cent to 30 per cent.Continue Reading
His Adani Green and Adani Total Gas trade at more than 750 times profit, far higher than Elon Musk’s Tesla or Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.Continue Reading
JAMSHORO, Pakistan: Pakistan was scrambling on Tuesday (Sep 6) to widen a breach in its biggest lake and prevent the waters from overflowing to swamp nearby towns, so worsening unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation. Waters brought by record monsoon rains and melting glaciersContinue Reading
As waste collection and management issues persist in Cambodia’s major cities, a resident steps up to take out the trash
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TAIPEI: The combat skills of Taiwan’s military are now “more mature” and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during their recent drills, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday (Sep 6). China staged war games in the immediate aftermath ofContinue Reading