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Demonstrators flooded the streets of Colombo on Saturday as pressure mounted on the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is frequently referred to as Gota. Anger in Sri Lanka has intensified over a crippling economic crisis, which is the worst the countr…
Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after a dramatic week in which he violated the constitution in an attempt to stop the move going ahead.Khan, the former cricketer turned pious Islamist politician, …
A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threatIt was a big year for Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning Chinese musician who would go on to compose the soun…
Sri Lankan police fired teargas and water cannon at protesters as they called for the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to resign. The country is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in decades. It is struggling to pay for imports of fuel and o…
Footage circulating on social media purports to show children who have Covid crying after allegedly being separated from their parents and placed into quarantine at a clinic in Shanghai. An unverified clip shows babies and toddlers placed together in r…
Covid-19 cases in China’s most populous city of Shanghai have risen again as millions remain isolated at home under a sweeping lockdown. Drone footage shows the usually bustling city empty of people and traffic. Almost all 26 million residents are unde…
Residents in half of Shanghai are bracing for the second phase of a citywide lockdown that will start on Friday. Long queues were seen outside some supermarkets on Wednesday, and residents emptied shelves. The Omicron outbreak in Shanghai is one of a s…
30 March 1922: Two British climbers return from the summit in ‘splendid condition’ despite losing all of their equipment and food on the mountainTokyo, 21 MarchMajor Orde-Lees, the parachute expert and Antarctic explorer, and Mr H Crisp, both of the Br…
With temperatures rising to 19 degrees celsius in Tokyo, the annual cherry blossom bloom has begun Continue reading…
Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has dismissed foreign criticism of the country’s security negotiations with China as ‘insulting’ and called those who leaked the draft agreement ‘lunatics’, in his first comments to parliament on th…
North Korean state television has broadcast a Hollywood-style film that purports to show Kim Jong-un and military officials overseeing the launch of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. The launch drew international condemnation.North Kor…
On the day that Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan were supposed to get married, Shihan’s residential community was locked down. As people were still allowed in, Chang gathered up her wedding dress, shoes and makeup, and trudged through the snow to Shihan…
Relatives, friends and colleagues of passengers on a China Eastern Airlines flight that crashed into a mountain have waited for news at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. Flight MU5735, with 132 people on board, had been scheduled to arr…
Footage posted online appears to show the aftermath of the crashed Chinese airliner in the southern province of Guangxi. The Boeing 737 plane went down in the countryside near Wuzhou city, causing a mountain fire with 132 people said to be onboard. The…
Country steps up efforts to control a surge in coronavirus cases as it tries to maintain its zero Covid policy. Major cities such as Shenzhen and Changchun have been locked down as Covid cases hit a two-year high. Nearly 90% of new infections are in Ji…