South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country’s largest forest fire on record, a minister said yesterday, as rain and better weather allowed more helicopters to fly and dump water, dousing the flames.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said yesterday that Donald Trump’s views on tariffs were “difficult to understand” after the US president announced 25 percent levies on imported cars and parts.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the construction of a long-delayed solar power project during his upcoming visit to Sri Lanka, an official said yesterday.

According to a source familiar with North Korean affairs, a North Korean cargo ship sailing in the West Sea since late February with its automatic identification system(AIS) turned off collided with a Chinese vessel on March 13, 2025. Adverse weather conditions made it difficult for the Chinese ship to detect the North Korean vessel in time

The junta rarely asks for international aid after natural disasters, suggesting casualties could be on a large scale

Damage was reported to buildings across Bangkok after the 7.7-magnitude quake.

The building collapsed in seconds after the 7.7-magnitude quake, which had its epicentre in Myanmar.

The chief of Myanmar’s ruling junta yesterday vowed to hold a free and fair election in December, as he urged armed opponents in a widening civil war to renounce violence and pursue dialogue.

The report also said that religious freedom in Bangladesh has declined

India was aware of an anti-Hasina wave building up in Bangladesh ahead of the overthrow of her government on August 5, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the Consultative Committee on External Affairs.

Pakistan yesterday charged a Baloch rights activist with terrorism, sedition and murder after she led a demonstration which ended in the death of three protesters, according to police documents.

India yesterday announced the scrapping of 20 percent duty on onion export with effect from April 1.

Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets Saturday as rallies for and against the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol intensified over the upcoming Constitutional Court’s decision on whether to dismiss him.

Pakistan detained a leading female Baloch rights activist on Saturday for holding a sit-in in southwestern Balochistan at which three protesters were also killed, police said. 

At least three firefighters and a public servant have been killed in a wildfire in South Korea, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in southeastern regions, authorities said yesterday. 

Japan, South Korea and China agreed Saturday that peace on the Korean peninsula was a shared responsibility, Seoul’s foreign minister said, in a meeting of the three countries’ top diplomats in which they pledged to promote cooperation.

Japan, China, and South Korea agree to promote peace, cooperation

The Pakistani Taliban killed at least five police officers and wounded six others in multiple attacks in the country’s northwest, police said yesterday.

North Korea yesterday said it had test-fired a new weapons system which would boost its combat readiness, as Russia’s security chief held talks in Pyongyang with leader Kim Jong Un.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has filed a lawsuit against the Indian government over its use of takedown orders to request social media content be removed.