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News Articles: Asia

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile."

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  • Asia

North Korean missile test ends in failure. It's part of a larger push for a new ICBM

North Korea is reportedly working up to testing of a longer-range intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the whole of the continental U.S.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile."

Tagged as: 

  • Asia

North Korean missile test ends in failure. It's part of a larger push for a new ICBM

North Korea is reportedly working up to testing of a longer-range intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the whole of the continental U.S.

March 16, 2022
|
By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
Anti-coup protesters are shown running around their makeshift barricade as they make a defense line during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 28, 2021.

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  • Asia

U.N. says military violence in Myanmar may be 'crimes against humanity'

More than 12,500 people in Myanmar have been detained, at least 440,000 have been displaced and about 14 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, the report says.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Passengers arrive at Auckland's International Airport, in Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday.

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  • World

New Zealand will open its borders to some tourists much earlier than expected

The move is meant to speed up the recovery of the island nation's pandemic-battered economy, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Wednesday.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
Residents queue to undergo tests for the coronavirus in China's northeastern Jilin province on Saturday.

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  • Asia

A surge in COVID-19 spurs new lockdowns in China's cities

In the latest wave, the highly transmissible omicron variant has moved more quickly than contact tracing allows.

March 15, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Aowen Cao
Residents get tested for the coronavirus at an outdoor facility on Monday in Beijing.

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  • Business

Shares in China fall amid strongest COVID-19 lockdown yet

A second consecutive day of losses comes while China faces a surging number of COVID-19 cases across the country.

March 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A student takes photographs of placards during a protest against banning Muslim girls from wearing the hijab in educational institutions in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, in New Delhi on Feb. 8, 2022.

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  • Asia

India court upholds a ban on hijab in schools and colleges

Some rights activists have voiced concerns that the ban could increase Islamophobia in a country where violence and hate speech against Muslims have increased in recent years.

March 15, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Al Noor Mosque shooting survivor Temel Atacocugu gestures as he completes his walk from Dunedin to Christchurch on the third anniversary of the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday.

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  • Asia

Shot 9 times at New Zealand mosque, survivor walks for peace

Three years after the deadly shootings, a victim of the shootings travels more than 200 miles on foot and by bike to retrace the gunman's journey.

March 15, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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  • Asia

Filipina domestic workers are being fired in Hong Kong for catching COVID

As an omicron wave sweeps through Hong Kong, some of the nannies and housekeepers from the Philippines who work there have been thrown out by their employers after testing positive for the virus.

March 15, 2022
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By:
  • Julie McCarthy
A car carrying members of the Chinese delegation leaves the Cavalieri Hilton hotel in Rome, where U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met on Monday.

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  • Europe

White House tells China of its 'deep concerns' about providing assistance to Russia

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese diplomats in Rome on Monday in what a senior administration adviser described as an "intense" seven-hour session.

March 14, 2022
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By:
  • Windsor Johnston and
  • John Ruwitch
Workers line up for COVID test outside an office building on Monday in Beijing.

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  • Asia

China battles multiple COVID-19 outbreaks, driven by stealth omicron

While the numbers are small relative to numbers reported in Europe or in the U.S., they are the highest since the first big outbreak of COVID-19 in the central city of Wuhan in early 2020.

March 14, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
<em>Radha Devi buys vegetables on her way back from the private educational institute where she has worked as an aide since November 2021. Devi, her husband and their three children all came down with COVID-19 in April of that year. She and the kids recovered; her husband died. Says Devi: "I knew I had to stand up. I had to change myself for the kids, or they too would get left behind."</em>

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  • Family

PHOTOS: The precarious lives of India's COVID widows

No matter how the pandemic proceeds, women who lost a husband — and sole family breadwinner — will lead irrevocably altered lives in the patriarchal society that is India.

March 12, 2022
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By:
  • Text and photos by Ruhani Kaur
People line up for coronavirus tests outside a hospital in Shanghai on Friday.

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  • Asia

China locks down a city of 9 million amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases

The latest lockdowns extend China's draconian approach to the pandemic it has enforced for most of the past two years

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a news conference at the National Assembly in Seoul on Thursday, the morning after his victory in the country's presidential election.

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  • Asia

South Koreans vote political conservative as new president

The politically inexperienced Yoon Suk Yeol's pledge to get tough on North Korea could mark a sharp break with the outgoing liberal administration's policies.

March 10, 2022
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
Election officials count votes after Uttar Pradesh state elections in Lucknow, India on Thursday.

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  • Asia

Modi's ruling party is ahead in crucial state polls in India

The results are seen as a referendum on the prime minister's popularity and a resounding endorsement of his party's Hindu-first politics.

March 10, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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