TOKYO: A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday.

Stocks and commodities tumbled as China’s worsening Covid outbreak compounded fears sparked by faster Federal Reserve tightening.

The Criminal Court on Monday sentenced motorcyclist Pol L/Cpl Norawich Buadok, 21, to one year and 15 days in jail without suspension for running over and killing ophthalmologist Waraluck Supawatjariyakul on a zebra crossing in Bangkok three months a...

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers were found dead in western Indonesia on Sunday after being ensnared by traps, police said, dealing another blow to the species' rapidly declining population.

Palm oil rallied after top producer Indonesia said it will ban all exports of cooking oil, a surprise move that threatens to worsen global food inflation and aggravate volatility in crop markets still reeling from the war.

COLOMBO: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's stock exchange halted again Monday after a nearly 13% plunge, derailing the bourse's tentative reopening after a two-week break aimed at forestalling a market collapse.

A Myanmar junta court on Monday postponed giving its first verdict in the corruption trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a junta spokesman told AFP, a case which could see the Nobel laureate jailed for 15 years.

Domestic car sales in March rose 9.1% from a year earlier to 87,245 units, helped by improved economic activity following an easing of coronavirus curbs and relief measures, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said on Monday.

There were 124 Covid-19 fatalities and 14,994 confirmed new cases on Sunday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced on Monday.

TOKYO: The Ukrainian government has apologised over a video shared on Twitter that juxtaposed a picture of the late Japanese emperor Hirohito to those of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in describing Nazism and fascism.