The World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people.

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Mayor Isko Moreno joins the crowded race to succeed President Rodrigo Duterte.

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Denise Ho’s sold-out concerts were canceled, feeding concerns that Hong Kong’s cultural scene is the latest target of China’s tightening control.

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The law would impose some of the world’s strictest controls on private sector handling of information about individuals.

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Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his U.S. counterpart that China is willing to help promote the soft landing of the Afghan issue” and avoid “humanitarian disaster.”

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Close on the heels of the Kris Wu scandal, charges of sexual assault and harassment at Alibaba emerged.

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The highly contagious Delta variant is testing China’s zero-tolerance policy for COVID outbreaks.

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The government of Henan province revised the death toll upward to 302 people, most of them in the capital of Zhengzhou.

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Wang Jingyu has been on the run from Chinese police since July 2019, after he posted comments in support of mass demonstrations in Hong Kong.

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Historic rainfall in Henan province caused severe flooding, including in Zhenzhou, the provincial capital.

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The move came the day after the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was forced to close its doors.

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“Since the pandemic has started, this is perhaps the scariest period that New South Wales is going through,” said state leader Gladys Berejiklian.

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Three astronauts will blast off next week to spend three months on China’s new Tianhe space station.

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The meeting comes shortly after a senior Biden administration official visited three Southeast Asian capitals.

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China has long resented the presence of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, but is equally wary of instability in the region.

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The party of now-detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi won huge majorities in 2015 and 2020. Now it might be banned by the junta.

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The United States is the only other country to have successfully landed and operated a spacecraft on Mars.

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Two Chinese nuclear plants will be using Russian-designed reactors.

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China’s Foreign Ministry accused Washington of preventing U.N. Security Council action on the crisis in Gaza.

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The cyclone could seriously complicate efforts by Gujarat to curb the spread of the pandemic.

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State media announced that Kitazumi Yuki would be released “in view of the close ties and future relations between Myanmar and Japan.”

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Reportedly one Kyrgyz man has been killed in the clashes over a long-unsettled border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

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After chanting their opposition to the junta and listening to speeches, the protesters quickly scattered to avoid any confrontation with police or soldiers.

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Doctors, nurses, and medical students have marched and joined strikes to show their opposition to the military coup.

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In just over two weeks, Bhutan has vaccinated more of its population than any country in the world but the Seychelles.

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The prime minister urged Indians to get vaccinated as the country sees its case count soar to new heights.

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Amid growing worries that China is preparing for military action, Taiwan’s foreign minister affirms Taiwanese “are willing to defend ourselves.”

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Myanmar’s ruling junta published a list of actors, actresses, musicians, and social media influencers it accuses of threatening stability by sharing news.

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The possibility of a new upsurge in COVID-19 cases comes as the government is trying to finalize plans to gradually reopen the country to foreign tourists.

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