Earthquakes are devastating for those who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods, but for military dictators clinging to ...

For decades, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been vital in combating HIV across the Asia–Pacific region, where nearly 7 million people live with the virus amid persistent ...

In a nation rocked by centuries of devastating earthquakes, none comes close to the death and devastation unleashed a month ...

The Union Cabinet is set to meet under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chairmanship. The meeting comes after the Pahalgam ...

The Trump administration’s gutting of USAID and suspension of global refugee resettlement programs has exacerbated the ...

CAR ownership rules in Singapore, the city-state recently ranked by Switzerland-based IMD as the smartest city in Asia, discourage car ownership. A Singapore resident has to pay a minimum of $84,000 ...

Conflict monitors and residents in combat zones say fighting continued on both sides during the 20-day truce, declared to ...

No sign of extension to 20-day ceasefire, which was shattered by regime airstrikes that killed dozens of civilians in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed on Monday, April 21, that DNA samples from the families of two Filipinos missing in the Myanmar earthquake were submitted ...

MANILA, Philippines — The relatives of two Filipinos who went missing after the Myanmar earthquake have provided DNA samples to authorities in the hope of expediting the search for their loved ones.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar, Apr 21 2025 (IPS) - As I walked through the streets of Sagaing and Mandalay, the scenes unfolding in the wake of the 7.7 earthquake were hard to comprehend. Tall buildings and ...

BANGKOK — Basic services have yet to be restored to the areas of Myanmar worst hit by a huge earthquake three weeks ago, and emergency workers recovering bodies and clearing debris are ...