Business Recorder

TOKYO: Japan's unemployment rate rose to 2.9 percent in May, official data showed Tuesday, the third consecutive...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police arrested at least 53 people on Sunday after scuffles erupted during a relatively ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 1,198 new coronavirus cases and 34 deaths on Sunday, taking the total number of...

KABUL: Peace talks between warring Afghan factions are expected to start as soon as they iron out their main...

SEOUL: North and South Korea on Thursday separately marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, a...

NEW DELHI: India reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest daily increase since the outbreak...

• Iran reported its first COVID-19 cases on February 19, and it has since struggled to contain the outbreak at the death toll nears 10,000.

• "Most of those killed were members of commando and special forces," Akazi said.

• Lari also announced another 2,445 people had tested positive for COVID in the past 24 hours, raising the country's caseload to 209,970.

TAICHUNG: Taiwan unveiled a new locally-built training jet on Monday, a boost for the island's push to manufacture...

• Beijing has been expanding testing in the city of 20 million since a cluster of infections linked to a food wholesale market erupted over a week ago.

• Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said there were 36 more deaths reported, with total fatalities now at 2,465, the highest coronavirus death toll in East Asia outside of China.

• Xinhua said the eventual law would criminalise "secession, subversion of state power, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces" that endanger security.

• Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said there were 34 more deaths reported, with total fatalities now at 2,373, the highest coronavirus death toll in East Asia outside of China.

• The new cases were quarantined Thais returning from Saudi Arabia and India, said Panprapa Yongtrakul, a spokeswoman for the government's COVID-19 Administration Centre.

• "Currently, the First President of Kazakhstan is in self-isolation. Unfortunately, the last test for the coronavirus infection showed a positive result. There is no cause for concern," the statement said.

• Kawai, 57, and his wife, 46, have both resigned from Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but reportedly plan to keep their seats in parliament.

• Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said 63 more deaths were reported on Thursday, with total fatalities now at 2,339, the highest coronavirus death toll in East Asia outside of China.

• At an opening up of mining to the private sector titled "Unleashing Coal", Modi said he wanted India, with the world's fourth largest coal reserves, to be a net exporter of coal.

TOKYO: Japan "can't move ahead" with a costly US missile defence system, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday,...

• Born in 1988, according to the Unification ministry, Yo Jong is one of three children born to Kim's predecessor Kim Jong Il and his third known partner, former dancer Ko Yong Hui.

• The Southeast Asian country's total number of infections was 40,400 and fatalities 2,231, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said, adding that 15,703 patients had recovered.

• Total fatalities in the country remain at 121, with no new deaths reported.

BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan's prime minister resigned on Monday after he came under parliamentary fire during a probe...

• Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said the total number of cases in Indonesia had now reached 39,294, while fatalities had increased to 2,198.

• The health ministry reported no new deaths, keeping total fatalities at 121.

• State news agency Xinhua reported Sunday that there was a second blast when the truck fell onto a workshop near the expressway after the first explosion.

• The Department of Health also recorded 14 additional fatalities related to the novel coronavirus, taking the death toll to 1,088.

• Yurianto said 755 more patients had recovered from the virus, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 14,531.

HANOI: A VietJet Air passenger plane skidded off a runway as it landed at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City ...