China’s muted reaction over a US military flight to Taiwan prompted criticism from nationalists online, underscoring the pressures on President Xi Jinping to follow through on heated “red line” rhetoric.

TOKYO: Toyota has apologised and vowed to tackle workplace harassment after settling with the family of an employee who killed himself following repeated abuse by his boss.

BEIJING: China's exports rose 27.9% in May while imports grew at the fastest pace in more than a decade as the global economy powers back from the pandemic crisis, official data showed Monday.

Investor confidence in financial markets for the three months ahead has risen slightly on optimism over the country's Covid-19 vaccination programme, Thai Capital Market Organisations (Fetco) reported on Monday.

Envoys from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) called on Myanmar's junta to free all political prisoners and discussed implementing a regional "consensus" to end turmoil since the Feb 1 coup, the regional bloc said.

KARACHI: At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed earlier, officials said.

People flocked to vaccination centres across the country on Monday as the government kicked off its long-delayed campaign to vaccinate the population against the novel coronarivus.

RAYONG: In the Gulf of Thailand, fisheries researchers use a guideline to scuba dive to the ocean floor where they release baskets full of young bamboo sharks.

State-controlled PTT Plc, the country’s largest company by market value, has invested in a venture to make plant-based protein, including so-called faux meat, as part of its objective to become less dependent on fossil-fuel businesses.

BADHOEVEDORP, Netherlands: Dutch judges will on Monday start hearing evidence against three Russian suspects and a Ukrainian in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine in 2014.