“They think that reducing sentences for Aung San Suu Kyi and the president U Win Myint will first of all get some of the support of the people, and more importantly, get them international recognition,” she said. “It’s like a coating, a veneer, so that…

SEOUL: South Korea raised the hot weather warning to its highest, the first time in four years, as parts of the country roasted in temperatures over 38 degrees Celsius, the interior and safety ministry said on Wednesday (Aug 2). The scorching heat is estimated to…

Reports that China obstructed discussions on tackling climate change at Group of 20 (G20) meetings last week in India are “completely inconsistent with the facts”, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday (Aug 2). After three days of discussions on issues like cutting emissions and fossil…

TOKYO: High winds hit power lines in Japan’s Okinawa and knocked out electricity to more than 200,000 households on Wednesday (Aug 2) morning, as powerful and slow-moving Typhoon Khanun neared the country’s southwestern islands threatening torrential rains. Hundreds of thousands of people in the tropical…

WASHINGTON: North Korea has offered a very brief response to the United Nations Command about a US soldier who dashed over the heavily-guarded border with South Korea on Jul 18 and was immediately taken into custody, the Pentagon said on Tuesday (Aug 1). However, Pentagon…

“Every year the disaster happens in the same area but this year it is more extreme, causing some people to die of starvation and several thousand to evacuate,” BNPB head Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told a virtual briefing on Monday.…