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JAKARTA: At one of Jakarta's largest public cemeteries last month, Tuti Kursiani's family members wept as her coffin was lowered into the ground, less than 24 hours after the 65-year-old died of the novel coronavirus. As the mourners…

BANGKOK: 4,977 staff at Thai Airways International (THAI) applied for different stages of its Mutual Separation Plan (MSP) for the survival of the airline, Thai news agency (TNA) reported. Acting THAI president Chansin Treenuchagron said…

TOKYO: Japan-based ticketholders for the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be able to apply for refunds from Nov 10, Games organisers said on Friday. Since deciding to postpone the Games until 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, organisers…

NONTHABURI: Health authorities urge people to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus by regularly wearing face masks as a survey has found only 67.1 per cent of respondents are using them, Thai news agency (TNA) reported.…

VIETNAM: Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the region in decades. The…

TUNIS: The Tunisian suspect in Thursday’s attack in which three people were killed in Nice in southern France was not listed by Tunisian police as a suspected militant before he left the country in September, a judiciary official said.…

BRUNEI: Prince Azim of Brunei, who also had a minor career as a Hollywood film producer, has died. He was 38. The son of the enormously wealthy Sultan of Brunei, and fourth in line to the throne, died on Saturday in the capital city Bandar…

MELBOURNE: Melbourne's shops, restaurants and hotels opened for business on Wednesday (Oct 28) after a four-month coronavirus lockdown, with happy customers enjoying alfresco eating in the spring sunshine and shopkeepers hoping for big…

HANOI: ASEAN Foreign Ministers on Tuesday issued a statement on recent floods and landslides that caused huge losses of life and property in Southeast Asian nations, Vietna news agency (VNA) reported. In the statement, the ministers…

SPAIN: Barcelona have accepted a proposal to join a new European Super League, a move that would secure the club's financial future, Josep Maria Bartomeu said after resigning as president on Tuesday. Bartomeu and the rest of the board of…