Asia

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated two coal-fired power plants in Tharparkar, describing them as a testimony to the enduring partnership between China and Pakistan

Mongolia women's national football team will participate in the AFC 2024 Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Thailand in April 2023 to take part in the Paris 2024 Olympics

Official campaigning for quadrennial unified local elections started, with the results likely to determine whether PM Kishida will decide to dissolve the lower house for a snap general election

With a turnout in the 2023 Kazakh parliamentary elections of 53,25%, the AMANAT party obtained 53,46% of the total votes

There has been an increase in the incidence of tuberculosis, according to the National Centre of Physiology, 4.018 patients (or 60 per 100.000 people), compared to 3.891 (58,1 per 100.000) in 2021

Effective measures should be taken for the registration of online news portals, suggested the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

A petition with the signatures of 8.517 people, joined by Amnesty International Thailand and other activists, has been delivered to acting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, asking to drop charges against all political activists

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. emphasised the need to use new and emerging technologies to improve the management of the country's water resources

Across the country, the use of CCTV and facial recognition cameras is increasing in schools, airports, train stations, prisons and streets; authorities are implementing a nationwide system to reduce crime and identify missing children

Passengers travelling on the China-Laos Railway can now easily book and manage their journeys on smartphones thanks to a new mobile ticketing application

An experimental project began in February in ten Indonesian schools: classes start at 5:30 am, about two hours earlier than is usually the case in the country

An Israeli minister with responsibility for the administration of the occupied West Bank drew condemnation on Monday after he said there was no Palestinian history or culture and no such thing as a Palestinian people

The sovereign of Dubai has launched a Ramadan '1 Billion Meals Endowment' campaign that aims to sustainably provide hundreds of millions of meals to people in need