Asia Pacific Archive
Asia Pacific
Beijing has accused Washington of “political manipulation” after an edit was made to the US state department website, removing a line stating that the US did not support
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Asia Pacific
Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator of the same name, is on course to be named the new Philippine president, having gained more than double
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The Taliban has ordered all women to cover their faces in public in Afghanistan, the latest restriction on women’s freedom imposed by the regime since regaining control of
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An investigation has been launched in Shanghai after a nursing home mistakenly declared a resident dead and sent him to the mortuary in a body bag. The elderly
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Asia Pacific
Beijing is expanding the mass testing that has taken place in one district this week, to include almost all of the city’s 22 million population, increasing fears that
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Authorities in Shanghai have introduced further restrictions on the movement of residents in some districts and warned the city’s 25 million inhabitants that strict measures would continue to
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Shanghai is making preparations to ease Covid restrictions in place over the city’s 25 million population with authorities hopeful Covid transmissions will mostly be restricted to quarantine facilities.
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The streets in front of Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office have been transformed into a protest camp, as citizens vent their anger over the worst economic crisis
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North Korea has run a test launch of what is believed to be the largest intercontinental ballistic missile ever produced by the nation, the first such test since
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The Taliban have announced that high schools for girls will remain closed, backtracking from previous pledges that the schools would reopen and earning international condemnation. Education and most
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