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  • Students in Taiwan participate in an ocean safety class with teacher Tseng Ching-ming, who is trying to turn around the low rates of swimming and a deeply entrenched fear of the ocean.

    Taiwan’s next generation takes on its fear of the deep

  • Huge sinkhole at urban intersection.

    Fears grow in Japan for truck driver trapped in sinkhole for third day

    Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre ramp
  • A woman's hands, with many bangles on both wrists, operating a sound mixing desk, as seen from above.

    From missing goats to health tips: how a female-run radio station is giving rural India a voice

    For nearly two decades, ‘General’ Narsamma and her team at Sangham Radio have honed their craft, learning every aspect of broadcasting, including fixing the radio mast and interview techniques
  • ‘I told my son to keep strong – let’s wait for dad’: Thailand hopes for return of its last Hamas hostage

  • Five Thai hostages freed from Gaza after more than a year in captivity – video

  • How joy turned to horror as Kumbh Mela festival crowd crush unfolded

  • Demining to democracy: how Trump’s foreign aid freeze will affect south-east Asia

  • Race to rescue driver trapped in Japan sinkhole for two days

  • US-born teenager murdered by father in Pakistan over TikTok content

  • Dozens killed in crowd crushes at Kumbh Mela in India

  • File image of Houses impacted by rising sea levels in Fiji

    Samoa
    Leaders in the Pacific raise alarm over ‘direct impact’ of Trump’s climate retreat and aid freeze

  • The 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa was fuelled by a dangerous drop in vaccination rates.

    Samoa
    Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak

  • Sir Julius Chan in 1995

    Papua New Guinea
    Sir Julius Chan, Papua New Guinea’s last ‘founding father’, dies aged 85

  • The city of Otaru, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.

    Japan
    Picture prefect: Japanese city deploys guards to control unruly tourists seeking perfect shot

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  • TOPSHOT-MYANMAR-COUP-CONFLICT-WOMEN<br>TOPSHOT - This photo taken on December 10, 2023 shows female members of the Mandalay People's Defense Forces (MDY-PDF) heading to the frontline amid clashes with the Myanmar military in northern Shan State. In the hills of northern Myanmar young women fly combat drones, treat wounded comrades and patrol the frontlines, new roles in the battle to overthrow the military junta. (Photo by AFP) / To go with 'MYANMAR-COUP-CONFLICT-WOMEN,FOCUS' (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Rights and freedom
    Four years after the coup, chaos reigns as Myanmar’s military struggles

  • Meher Pavri as the Opera Singer with Neil D'Souza as Krishna and Anaka Maharaj-Sandhu as Arjuna in Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata in 2023

    Australian theatre
    A five-hour play, 4,000 years in the making: India’s epic Mahabharata arrives in Australia

  • A woman with two family members injured in the crush recounts her story to the media outside a makeshift hospital designated especially the Kumbh Mela festival.

    India
    Police in India confirm at least 30 killed and 60 more people injured in crush – as it happened

  • Pilgrims bathing on the banks of the River Ganges on Tuesday.

    Kumbh Mela
    Kumbh Mela: what is the Hindu ‘festival of festivals’?

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Pictures & video
  • Air Busan Airbus plane catches fire before takeoff at Busan airport – video

  • Twenty-five newborn baby pandas make first public appearance for Chinese lunar new year
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    Twenty-five newborn baby pandas make first public appearance for Chinese lunar new year – video

    Twenty-five newborn baby pandas make first public appearance for Chinese lunar new year
  • Thailand has become the first country in south-east Asia to allow same-sex marriage
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    Joy in Thailand as same-sex couples can finally marry – video

    Thailand has become the first country in south-east Asia to allow same-sex marriage
  • A combination photo shows couples posing after registering their same-sex marriages

    Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force – in pictures

  • About 40,000 people gathered outside when a small group forced entry into the building
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    Supporters of Yoon Suk Yeol storm court in Seoul after detention hearing – video

  • Yoon Suk Yeol appears in court at hearing to decide on his formal arrest over martial law declaration
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    Mass pro-Yoon rallies take place in Seoul as impeached president appears in court – video

  • Impeached president detained over failed December martial law bid a month after a first attempt ended in stalemate
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    South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol arrested after hours-long standoff – video

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