The rate of vaccination against COVID-19 is displayed in the form of a temperature tower at an intersection in Gwangjin-gu district, Seoul in South Korea on January 12. Photo: VCGSouth Korea has used $18 million of frozen Iranian assets to pay Tehran's dues to the UN, Seoul sa···...

A fisherwoman rests in front of her house in Malaysia. File photo: VCG Walking across a swamp, retired fisherman Ilias Shafie and a small group of villagers plant mangrove saplings on Malaysia's west coast, one tree at a time. They have put in some 400,000 mangrove trees s···...

Riot police officers patrol in a street as unprecedented protests over a hike in energy prices spun out of control in Almaty on January 5, 2022.Photo: AFP Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has declared a two-week state of emergency in the Central Asian nation's biggest ···...

Farmers sit in a tractor-trolley on a blocked highway during a protest against the newly passed farm bills at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border near Ghazipur on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on Saturday. Photo: AFP Oxfam India says restrictions on its access to international fun···...

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi looks on as health workers receive a vaccine for COVID-19 at a hospital in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on Wednesday. The country has reported more than 138,000 infections with 3,069 deaths. Photo: AFP A Myanmar junta court on Monday convic···...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd via a video conference in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2022. Negotiating does not mean giving in to the enemy, he said as talks are taking place in Vienna between his country and world powers on the nucle···...

Landfill site for US air base in Okinawa. Photo: AFP US troops in Japan will stop making non-essential visits off-base for two weeks from Monday, as local officials in areas hosting the forces link them with a sharp rise in coronavirus infections. The announcement came a···...

Students wearing face masks attend class at a school in Bangalore, India, Jan. 1, 2021. The southern state of Karnataka on Friday opened schools for students of grade 10 and 12 after a gap of more than nine months. (Str/Xinhua)Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Kar···...

A JF-17 fighter jet attached to the Pakistan Air Force flies towards the designated airspace during an air-to-ground offensive operation drill conducted by two Chinese JH-7 fighter bombers and two Pakistani JF-17 fighter jets on September 20, 2017. File Photo: eng.chinamil.com···...

Aerial photo taken on Dec. 19, 2021 shows a sea bridge in Bali, Indonesia.Photo:Xinhua Balinese tourism entrepreneur I Putu Winastra has been energized recently as his travel agency has received more bookings since the reopening of Indonesia's resort island of Bali for all in···...

A tractor passes palm trees as it travels along a path at the Genting Tanah Merah Estate, operated by Genting Plantations Berhad company, in Johore, Malaysia. File photo: VCG Malaysia's Sabah state, on Borneo island, is looking to revolutionize its palm oil industry with a de···...

A man receives a COVID-19 test at the Histopath pre-departure clinic at Sydney International Airport in Sydney, Australia on December 23, 2021. Demand at COVID-19 testing centers across Sydney has increased in the lead-up to Christmas as New South Wales' coronavirus case numbe···...

Chinese and Sri Lankan national flags are seen at Colombo's Port City during the visit of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on January 9, 2022. Photo: VCG After Sri Lanka declared an economic emergency and asked China for help at the···...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The landslides that devastated Petropolis this week demolished houses and ripped families apart, scarred hillsides and hearts, left at least 136 dead and more than 200 missing. And it was all largely predictable -- and to some degree, preventable. Rapid urban···...

'Uncalled for' says India on Singapore PM's remarks on criminal charges faced by MPsANI18 Feb 2022, 03:18 GMT+10New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): India has said that Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's remarks in which he referred to criminal charges faced by MPs were ···...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meet on Ukraine at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on February 15, 2022. The Kremlin earlier confirmed a pullback of some Russian forces from Ukraine's borders but said the move was planned and stressed Russia woul···...