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An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed 950 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages. Photographs on Afghan media showed houses reduced to rubble, with bodies swathed in blankets …

Myanmar’s military-appointed defence minister joined a meeting of his Southeast Asian counterparts on Wednesday, despite pressure from some countries in the regional bloc and pro-democracy groups to exclude the junta from such gatherings. General Mya Tun Oo is the most senior Myanmar official to attend a ministerial meeting of the …

A nine-year-old boy died and six others were hospitalized in Hanoi due to food poisoning after consuming a homemade corn cake. Doctors of the Bach Mai Hospita on Wednesday said a family in Meo Vac District of northern Vietnam’s Ha Giang Province made a corn cake dish for four family …

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 250 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday (June 22), state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported. An official said at least 250 people were injured and checks were being conducted to see if the casualty toll might rise. The quake struck about 44km (27 …

Authorities in a Mekong Delta district announced Tuesday that people who had not received their fourth Covid-19 shot cannot leave the district but reversed it immediately. In Soc Trang Province’s My Xuyen District, officials announcing the ban said the Covid situation remains complex and the third vaccine now has “little …

Sequoia Capital-backed Indian skincare startup Mamaearth is in talks to raise at least $300 million in a planned IPO next year and is seeking a valuation of around $3 billion, three people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans told Reuters. Founded in 2016, Mamaearth has become popular in India …

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, said a 10 percent cut in salaried staff at the electric car maker will happen over three months, as the world’s richest man predicted a U.S. recession was more likely than not. His remarks were his most detailed explanation of job cut plans and his …

Two years ago, dozens of Airbus A380s set course for storage in sites from rural France to the Gulf as the outbreak of Covid-19 accelerated the demise of the world’s largest jets. Now, the iconic European double-decker is gaining a new lease on life as airlines scramble to cope with …

Singapore will introduce a S$1.5 billion ($1.08 billion) support package for mainly lower-income groups to help mitigate increased living costs from inflation and rising energy prices, its finance minister said on Tuesday. The plan is tilted towards low-income groups but will include rebates to all Singaporean households in the city-state …

The investor of Ben Luc – Long Thanh Expressway has asked for permission to extend the project’s completion deadline from 2023 to 2025. State-owned Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC), the project investor, made the request at a Monday meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh. The Ben Luc – Long …