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The dam is located along a river that flows into South Korea.

Hearing-impaired students typically take about five years to learn to recite and memorise the Quran at the school.

The eastern province has now recorded more than 1,000 infections since late last week.

The supply of piglets has been lacking after a collapse in prices last year forced a more extensive cull of sows.

Govt declares floods a natural disaster, helping residents receive emergency funding support.

Older people’s vaccine hesitancy is leading to stagnation of the overall inoculation rate. 

The flight suspensions come even as the city slowly loosens its quarantine rules.

The move would mark a significant relaxation of China's strict border controls.

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to get a clear path to constitutional revision after the Upper House election this Sunday (July 10), according to three separate polls over the weekend.

He highlighted foreign direct investment figures have bettered pre-Covid levels to hit records for two quarters straight.

Climate change and a La Nina phenomenon have been blamed for the days of relentless rain in Sydney.

This is an early effort, an expert said, and other key nations can be roped in to build on the momentum.

Thailand has received about two million foreign visitors in the first six months of this year.

The initiative seeks to build the bedrock of a digital nation.

It's found distribution of subsidised cooking oil amounted to 60,000 tonnes per month, exceeding household consumption.

Twenty-six people remain missing after their ship sank when Typhoon Chaba swept through the region.

India is facing a test of its Neighbourhood First foreign policy in Sri Lanka.

Singapore approved Indonesia as a new source of chicken meat last week.

The show features traditional artefacts, artworks and pop culture about the afterlife in different Asian cultures.

Potential purchasers must pay as much as a month in advance to open a consumer account at state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corp.