Sri Lanka expects approval from the International Monetary Fund to start the disbursal of $2.9 billion in the third or fourth week of this month, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says.
The International Labour Organisation says the 25 percent drop in female employment in the war-torn country took place between 2021 and 2022 as GDP contracts by 30-35 percent around the same period.
Chinese leader says Western countries led by the US "have implemented all-round containment" as Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang warns that Beijing and Washington are headed for “conflict" if the US does not change course.
Residents in Sagaing region in central Myanmar say forces loyal to the military junta killed at least 17 people, including minors, in the latest of what critics say are a series of war crimes.
At least 15 were killed and more than a hundred injured in an explosion in a seven-storey building in Gulistan, a major hub for wholesale goods in the bustling Bangladeshi capital.
Police face stones and petrol bombs during violent protests over a controversial law that would require groups receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas to register as "foreign agents" or face penalty.
Two years after the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government, the human rights situation in Myanmar is a "festering catastrophe", the global body's rights office said last week in a report.
Khan who was ousted out of office in April last year has been asked to appear in court in case related to allegations of foreign gifts before March 13.
Police detained at least two dozen supporters of the former premier ahead of the planned rally, which was to start in Lahore's upscale Zaman Park area where Imran Khan lives.
Tens of thousands rally in capital Tbilisi for the second straight day to protest "foreign agents" bill as Washington says it is "standing with Georgian people" and Kiev calls for "democratic success" in the Caucasian country.
