Asia stocks sink after Trump says reciprocal tariffs will hit ‘all countries’
BENGALURU - Asian share markets tumbled on March 31 as traders moved away from risk assets in trade-reliant emerging ...
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Far From Home: For Southeast Asia’s migrant workers, returning for good can be just as hard as leaving abroad
Anxiety, loneliness, lack of societal acceptance and limited job opportunities are some challenges faced by returning migrant ...
Gananath Obeyesekere, 95, Dies; Anthropologist Bridged East and West
His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and ...
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Ishiba stokes up diplomacy alongside deterrence in Japan’s relations with China
To improve bilateral relations, Chinese and Japanese state-led diplomatic initiatives need to address underlying structural ...
Man caring for ancestors’ grave may have ignited huge South Korea wildfire, police say
A South Korean man tending a family grave is suspected of sparking one of the ‘unprecedented’ wildfires that ravaged the ...
Myanmar earthquake LIVE: More than 1,700 dead in horror tremor aftermath
The earthquake has killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar and Thailand while leaving at least 2,300 injured - the death toll is expected to rise further as rescuers continue to search the rubble ...
Countries must not be pitted against each other over migration, Starmer to warn
Sir Keir Starmer will call on the 40 countries gathering in London for a summit to work together to stop people-smuggling ...
Rescuers search for survivors two days after quake kills more than 1,700 people
Rescuers search for survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Saturday. | (CNN) — ...
Keir Starmer to call for countries to unite to eradicate ‘vile trade’ of people smuggling at summit
The UK and other countries affected by people smuggling must not allow the "vile trade" to pit them against one another, the ...
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Global wearable band market grows 4 per cent in 2024
The global wearable band market continued its upward trajectory in 2024, with shipments reaching 193 million units—a 4 per ...
Myanmar quake death toll hits 1700 as aid scramble intensifies
The devastation has piled more misery on Myanmar, already in chaos from a civil war that grew out of a nationwide uprising ...
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Aid group describes unfolding crisis in Southeast Asia after deadly earthquake
A new 5.1 magnitude aftershock rattled survivors of Friday’s devastating earthquake as rescuers worked frantically to pull survivors from the rubble in Myanmar’s second-largest city. In neighboring ...