YANGON - The death toll from massive flooding in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has doubled to 226, as the UN warned as many as 630,000 people could be in need of help.
NEW DELHI – As a doctor based in the western Indian state of Goa, Dr Inacio Fernandes needs a good night’s sleep after working long hours at a stretch.
ASTANA - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday to give up on the idea that Russia can be defeated on the battlefield and to support China's peace plan for Ukraine, a suggestion Scholz rejected.
CHONBURI: Thailand's latest internet celebrity, baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, is challenging its keepers with the unexpectedly big crowds it is drawing to its zoo, two hours south of the capital Bangkok.
MANILA - The pressure is on for the Philippines to replace a vessel it pulled out from a hotly contested shoal in the South China Sea – or risk losing a strategic area in its maritime dispute with Beijing.
TAIPEI – A Chinese man tried to illegally enter northern Taiwan on Sept 14 on an inflatable rubber boat that went undetected by radar systems, raising alarm bells about gaps in the island’s coastal defence capabilities amid heightened cross-strait tensions.
CHONBURI, Thailand – Thailand’s latest internet celebrity, baby hippo Moo Deng, is challenging her keepers with the unexpectedly big crowds she is drawing to her zoo, two hours south of the capital Bangkok.