Tag Archives: Asia

The recently concluded COP27 global climate talks witnessed the continent triumph over a status quo of consistent failed promises of $100bn in climate financing from rich nations.

China's Xi Jinping has been filmed accusing Justin Trudeau of leaking meeting details, days after they held talks at the G20 summit in Bali.

The Taliban have banned women from visiting all parks in Kabul, excluding them still further from public life in Afghanistan.

Periods of tension with North Korea come and go, but the situation on the Korean peninsula right now is the most volatile it has been in five years and it looks likely to get worse.

Workers have broken out of Apple's largest iPhone assembly factory in China after a Covid outbreak forced staff to lockdown at the workplace.

Chinese former leader Hu Jintao has been led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress.

Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, Afghanistan's people have suffered a humanitarian catastrophe. In an open letter to 'Le Monde,' people from various organizations, the media and culture, urge European governments to do more to help them.

Plusieurs milliers de Rohingyas, réfugiés dans des camps de fortune dans le sud-est du Bangladesh ont manifesté jeudi pour marquer le cinquième anniversaire des massacres de leur peuple en Birmanie, qu’ils qualifient de « génocide ». A grand renfort de banderoles et de slogans, cette communauté majoritairement musulmane s’est rassemblée dans le …

Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and saw 14 members of her family being murdered by a Hindu mob during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat, is back in the headlines.

After weeks of intense speculation and sabre-rattling, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is reportedly set to visit the self-ruled island of Taiwan. The top US legislator did not put Taiwan in her official Asia tour itinerary, which kickstarted with visits to Singapore and Malaysia.