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Passengers laden with luggage flocked to rail stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday, heading to their hometowns for Lunar New Year holidays that health experts fear could intensify a raging Covid-19 outbreak in areas less-equipped to handle it. After three years of strict anti-virus controls, China abruptly abandoned …

An Indonesian court on Monday began a trial of a handful of police officers and soccer match organisers on charges of criminal negligence for their role in one of the world’s deadliest soccer stadium stampedes in Java last October. The disaster, in which 135 people died, occurred after a match …

Temperatures in the north of Vietnam droped as low as 0 degree Celsius on Monday morning, with Hanoi recording temperatures of 13 degrees. Nine northern Vietnam localities saw temperatures dropping below 10 degrees, with the peaks of Mau Son Mountain in Lang Son dropping to 0 degrees, while other areas …

Construction of a Japanese-funded pedestrian walkway over Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in Da Nang City began Sunday. The overpass, to cost VND42 billion (US$1.78 million), is being built by Japanese company Mikazuki. Built in Japanese style with curve sections made of wood to symbolize sea waves, it will be 140m …

Storm-lashed California is bracing for what may be a final battering of rain and snow starting late Sunday, adding to the damage unleashed by a weather system that has caused severe flooding and killed at least 19 people across the state. Residents across a swath of central and southern California …

A severe fragmentation of the global economy after decades of increasing economic integration could reduce global economic output by up to 7%, but the losses could reach 8-12% in some countries, if technology is also decoupled, the International Monetary Fund said in a new staff report. The IMF said even …

Financiers at the centre of a $200 billion industry underpinning airline fleets are meeting in Dublin this week, gambling that China’s decision to free travel will accelerate their recovery from a pandemic downturn, while warning of a shortage of jets. Three years after the spread of Covid-19 grounded thousands of …

The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro climbed to 21 on Sunday, as rescue workers raced to dig through a huge pile of debris in search of survivors. At least 35 people were still missing and 73 were injured, …

At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority said, in the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation. Hundreds of rescue workers were scouring the hillside where the Yeti Airlines flight, carrying …

At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said, in the small Himalayan country’s worst crash in nearly five years. Hundreds of rescue workers continued to scour the hillside site where the plane of domestic carrier …