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Chinese social media giants are publishing users' locations and banning use of similar-sounding words meant to skirt censorship.

The evaluation will last till Nov 29, and will determine whether or not Tetsuya Yamagami will be indicted for the shooting.

‘Uncle Percy’ has been marching onto the field holding the flag since 1982.

Asia News Network writers share their concerns over efforts to deal with climate change. Here are excerpts.

ST reports from a district known as India's phishing hub and a village that was a den of petty online crime.

Scammers across Asia are ingenious, deploying a wide range of ideas and technologies to extract the hard-earned money of unsuspecting individuals.

They lament absence of tree-protection laws as thousands of trees, some century-old, make way for development projects.

Jamtara district in India's eastern state of Jharkhand is notorious as a phishing hub.

NAWADA, BIHAR - In the agricultural fields surrounding Thalpos village in India's central state of Bihar, a lucrative business had emerged.

Security forces raided and partially cleared a protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo.

BANGKOK (REUTERS) - A Thai minister on Friday (July 22) sought to walk back remarks before parliament that authorities had used spyware to monitor individuals, U-turning on his admission just days earlier that surveillance software was actively being used.

Sri Lanka owes at least US$5 billion (S$6.95 billion) to China, although some estimates put it at almost twice that amount.

Selling chicken to Singapore will serve as a lesson for Indonesian firms eyeing greater overseas expansion.

BEIJING (XINHUA, NYTIMES) - China's President Xi Jinping on Friday (July 22) sent a message of sympathy to United States President Joe Biden over the latter's Covid-19 infection.

North-west Sagaing region has seen fierce fighting and bloody reprisals since the coup last year.

The cheaper price compared with other grades from the Persian Gulf and West Africa are likely to have prompted Indian purchases.

In the latest 24 hours, 26 people died from Covid, all aged over 60.

The topic was one of the most discussed on China's Weibo, a social media platform similar to Twitter, on Friday (July 22).

SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China's year-old carbon market has given more than 2,000 power plants a taste of emissions trading, but design flaws and data fraud have meant limited large-scale greenhouse gas reductions and environmental gains, experts say.