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Asia Pacific

25 July 2024

  • Waves break on the coastline in Yilan on July 24, 2024 as Typhoon Gaemi approaches

    Typhoon Gaemi: oil tanker and cargo ship sink amid stormy seas

    Two vessels sink and three others run aground as Taiwan and Philippines endure downpours and strong gusts that have killed at least three and injured 200

24 July 2024

  • Deadly violence has erupted in Papua New Guinea, as the result of a dispute over land

    At least 26 killed in Papua New Guinea village attacks, including 16 children

  • A mother and her child sit inside an electric vehicle

    The alternatives
    ‘High quality, low price and dizzying variety’: how the Chinese switched to electric cars

  • Empty plates laid out to symbolise the 733.4 million people living with hunger worldwide. The central message in red reads: End the global food crisis now. Round the edge is written: Millions of people have empty plates every day

    Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN

  • A New Zealand weka bird

    Reality TV contestant apologises for killing and eating protected New Zealand bird

  • ‘National disgrace’: landmark New Zealand report finds 200,000 victims of abuse in state care

  • Businesses in Japan consider charging tourists more amid surge in visitors

23 July 2024

  • A balloon presumably sent by North Korea, is seen in a paddy field in Incheon, South Korea, in June

    Rubbish balloons from North Korea land on presidential office compound in Seoul

  • Dietary supplements recalled in March 2024 by Japanese drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. The products contain an ingredient called red yeast rice, or ‘beni koji’, which has been linked to deaths and kidney problems

    Head of Japan drugmaker to resign over dietary supplement potentially linked to 80 deaths

  • China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, poses with members of the Palestinian factions on a large red carpet

    Palestinian factions including Hamas agree to form future unity government

  • People attend a protest criticising the government for its policies toward the Indigenous Maori population which they say are racist policies and undermine a treaty that protects their Indigenous rights

    Director of New Zealand’s pharmaceutical funding agency quits over rollback of Māori rights

22 July 2024

  • Aerial image of flooded properties

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Summer storms end hot spell in Slovenia

  • Shipping containers at a port in Hong Kong.

    Hong Kong is global trade hub for world’s most brutal regimes, report says

21 July 2024

  • A Philippine flag flutters from BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated Philippine Navy ship that has been aground since 1999 and became a Philippine military detachment on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    China and Philippines reach tentative deal to defuse tensions at South China Sea flashpoint

  • Hui stands on a stage and speaks into a megaphone

    Exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists blocked from accessing pensions

  • South Korean soldiers patrol near the border with North Korea.

    The Guardian view on defecting from North Korea: escape is harder than ever

  • Polytunnels at Haygrove farm in Herefordshire

    Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks

20 July 2024

  • Then president Donald Trump meets China's Xi Jinping at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019

    Donald Trump says Xi Jinping wrote him a ‘beautiful note’ after rally shooting

    US presidential contender’s reference echoes the ‘love letters’ he received from North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as he calls authoritarian leaders ‘smart, tough’ people

  • Bridge collapses in China amid floods, leaving several dead and dozens missing – video

    Torrential rain has caused a bridge to collapse in northern China, killing at least 11 people and leaving more than 30 missing
  • Ibrahim Iskandar, holding a long gold dagger, and Raja Sofiah stand side by side before gold, yellow and black thrones

    Malaysia crowns Sultan Ibrahim Iskander as new king – in pictures

    The 17th king of Malaysia is crowned at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur
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