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  • Farmers sort betel nuts at a market in Haikou, China.

    ‘Fruit of the devil’: Hainan’s betel nut sellers suffer from stuttering economy

  • Peter and Barbie Reynolds

    Briton held by Taliban with wife describes dire conditions in Kabul jail

    Peter Reynolds, 79, detained with his wife, Barbie, since February, says prison is ‘nearest thing to hell I can imagine’
  • Two people smiling and embracing as others hold up their arms and cheer, some holding flags

    South Koreans are celebrating Yoon’s impeachment, but the saga is far from over

    Whoever becomes president later this year has unenviable task of healing divisions and rebuilding trust in democratic institutions

  • Celebrations as president’s impeachment is upheld – as it happened

  • Moment South Korean court removed Yoon Suk Yeol from presidency – video

  • South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office after court upholds impeachment

  • EU urged to put human rights centre stage at first central Asia summit

  • US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island

  • South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment

  • China military drills targeting Taiwan put region’s security at risk, says US

Asia Pacific

  • Hikoi In Opposition To The Treaty Principles Bill Arrives In Wellington in november 2024

    Māori
    New Zealand’s controversial bill to reinterpret treaty with Māori should be scrapped, committee finds

  • Government office in Apia, Samoa.

    Samoa
    Samoa suffering energy crisis after weeks of power outages

  • A joint team of Myanmar and Turkish rescuers pull a man alive from the rubble of a hotel in the capital Naypyidaw, five days after a major earthquake struck central Myanmar.

    Myanmar
    Man pulled alive from Myanmar earthquake rubble after five days

  • A generic image of a police car

    New Zealand
    Outrage in New Zealand after 11-year-old girl sent to psychiatric ward and drugged in identity mix-up

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South & central Asia

  • Buddhist monks clear up rubble at the damaged monastery: they stand on and around a huge pile, with several digging. A large section of the yellow-painted monastery has collapsed and the remaining walls are leaning.

    Myanmar
    Broken and in the grip of civil war, can Myanmar rebuild after earthquake?

  • People receive food at a temporary shelter in Mandalay, Myanmar, 3 April 2025.

    Opinion
    The people of Myanmar can’t seem to catch a break. Here’s my plea to the international community

    Thin Lei Win
  • About six cleaners wearing orange hi-vis jackets with brooms and bags sweep urban street at night under lights

    The alternatives
    ‘I’ve seen people stop their cars to pick up litter’: how one city cleaned up its streets

  • Tata Consultancy Services logo on a semi-transparent window

    Tata
    Tata redundancy scheme targeted older, non-Indian nationals in UK, tribunal hears

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Pictures & video

  • 'We have to go on': Bangkok pushes on with quake rescue despite 'no signs of life' – video

  • Woman was trapped beneath hotel building for nearly 60 hours after devastating earthquake hit country
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    Woman rescued from collapsed Myanmar hotel days after earthquake – video

    Woman was trapped beneath hotel building for nearly 60 hours after devastating earthquake hit country
  • Social media videos shows water sloshing in outdoor swimming pools in Bangkok in the wake of the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 18 people across Thailand's capital
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    Water spills from Bangkok skyscraper pools as Myanmar earthquake hits – video

    Social media videos shows water sloshing in outdoor swimming pools in Bangkok in the wake of the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 18 people across Thailand's capital
  • Rescue teams in Thailand and Myanmar continue a desperate search for survivors after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday
    1:24

    Rescue operations underway in Thailand and Myanmar after earthquake – video

  • Footage shows moment tower block under construction collapses in Bangkok after city rocked by earthquake
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    Moment skyscraper under construction collapses in Bangkok after earthquake – video

  • More than 36,000 hectares (88,960 acres) have been charred in the south-east of the country
    1:17

    Expert says climate change behind South Korea's worst wildfires on record – video

  • At least 18 people have died and another 19 have been injured as wildfires ravage South Korea’s southern regions amid dry weather and strong winds. The blazes have burned more than 17,400 hectares (43,000 acres) of land and destroyed hundreds of structures, including a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple
    2:06

    Windy weather reignites South Korea's wildfires ravaging southern regions – video

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