Bodies of 3 climbers recovered after 10 go missing on Pakistan peak
Rescuers searching for 10 climbers missing after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak found four bodies and recovered…
Survivors sleep in cars as death toll from Japan quake rises to 34
Thousands of survivors of a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan spent Friday (local time) in crowded shelters or…
Arctic Sea Ice Loss May Be Reshaping the Asian Monsoon
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Kiwi in ‘scary’ Japan earthquake, at least 13 dead
Soldiers and emergency workers are combing through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped…
AI boom will sustain Hong Kong’s export surge, lift GDP outlook, economists say
Hong Kong’s export surge will extend into the coming months, driven by the global AI boom, economists have…
People trapped after shopping centre partly collapses in 7.1 Japan quake
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday, leaving dozens of people injured…
Singapore growth to hold firm but AI boom a ‘major uncertainty’: central bank
Singapore’s economic growth should remain firm in the second half of 2026 although a major uncertainty is the…
Indonesia cuts methane emissions – changing waste-pickers’ lives
Long before dawn breaks over Indonesia’s largest landfill, Nur Wencih joins thousands of waste pickers climbing mountains of…
RBC Wealth Management Bolsters Asia Expansion
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India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement ends protests after minister quits
India’s “Cockroach” movement called off its weeks of protests overnight, saying the government had accepted all of its…
More Americans think China is world leader in AI, new survey reveals
More than one-third of Americans see China, and not the United States, as the global leader in artificial…
Mother’s ‘nightmare’ Air NZ travel ordeal with autistic son
A Kiwi mother says a disrupted journey with Air New Zealand left her young autistic son distressed, after…