Asia

At least 15 infants were killed when a fire broke out at a state-run hospital in Pakistan‘s capital Islamabad, triggered by a fault in air conditioning systems, local broadcaster Geo TV reported on Wednesday.

China said Sunday that it was postponing its ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was set to carry out explorations including searching for water ice on the moon.

Kazakhstan was voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to further strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s grip on power in Central Asia’s largest nation.

With no end in sight to his war with Iran, President Donald Trump is trying to revive diplomacy with another complicated adversary: North Korea.

South Korean container ship PanStar Acro set sail from Busan for Europe on Saturday via the Arctic, following China’s Dubai Tower on a new route amid Strait of Hormuz disruption.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is medically fit and back in jail after being examined at a hospital, the country’s information minister said Friday.

Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, whose commemorations of China’s 1989 crackdown drew tens of thousands of people each year, had pleaded not guilty to inciting subversion.

The U.S. has designated Myanmar scholar and U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained after his arrest by Chinese authorities in June, a senior State Department official told Reuters, a move that makes securing his release a top U.S. priority.

The breakdown meant the crew went without drinking water, meals, functioning toilets and air conditioning for days aboard the ship, the Navy said.

China has successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket on land for the first time, state media reported Wednesday, as the country seeks to advance its space program.