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WTX News reports on breaking news, features and reports from across the continent of Asia. From politics to sport to Asian celebrities, we’ll keep you up to date with the latest.
Asia is Earth’s largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe, and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa and Europe.
The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population,[8] was the site of many of the first civilizations. Its 4.7 billion people[9] constitute roughly 60% of the world’s population.
How many countries are in Asia list?
According to the United Nations, Asia has 49 countries.
PM Modi to visit site of India bridge collapse India’s PM Modi will visit the Morbi district in India’s western state of Gujarat where a…
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Billionaire Branson declines Singapore death penalty TV debate British billionaire Sir Richard Branson has turned down an invitation from Singapore’s government to take part in…
For the third day in a row, the People’s Republic has reported more than a thousand new cases of Covid – with authorities tightening…
Thailand is in mourning following the devastating attack on a daycare centre that has left at least 37 dead, most of which were children.
Thailand shooting — LIVE: 38 confirmed dead At least 38 people confirmed dead after an attack at a child daycare centreMore than 20 children are…
Dozens of nursery children ‘massacred as they slept’ by ex-cop sacked for drugs The Metro says More than 30 people, most of them toddlers, have…
Breaking news – at least 28 people have been killed at a pre-school child daycare centre in Thailand, police have said.
Fifty Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed over the past few days in recent provocations by Armenia, Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry said.
An advertisement on Indian TV for road safety has come under sharp critiscm for allegedly promoting dowry.
The Guardian says Chengdu, the capital of the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan, has extended the coronavirus lockdown of most of its districts indefinitely as it hopes to stem further transmissions in the city of 21.2 million.
China experienced a devastating 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Monday, which claimed at least 74 lives.
Major roads leading to the epicentre of the earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan have started to reopen and traffic has resumed.
China starts large-scale military exercises around Taiwan, just hours after America’s Nancy Pelosi left the self-governed island, following a controversial visit that has infuriated Beijing.
Aljazeera says An earthquake has hit the northern Philippines, shattering windows at its epicentre and causing high-rise towers to shake more than 400km (249 miles) away in the capital Manila.
Aljazeera says Japan has executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008.
Should Shinzo Abe have a state funeral? As the government pushes forward with plans for such a funeral to honour Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, opposition grows over costs amid reminders that Abe was a divisive figure in the country.
France24 says Sri Lankan security forces raided a protest camp occupying government grounds in the main city of Colombo early on Friday and cleared out a section of it, a sign that the country’s new president was cracking down a day after his swearing-in.
Aljazeera says Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s eighth president by the country’s chief justice.
Aljazeera says A MAINLY youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days.
Aljazeera says the President has declared a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation in an effort to head off unrest ahead of a vote in parliament later this week to elect a new president.
Aljazeera news says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation to the speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament, a spokesperson for the speaker said, hours after he fled to Singapore.
Aljazeera LIVE says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had repeatedly assured the speaker of parliament that he would step down on Wednesday.
Aljazeera says Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country, hours before his promised resignation amid widespread protests over his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.
Sri Lanka President to resign amid protests and a storming of the official residence of the PM and president over the economic crisis.