Women make up more than half of the voters in Sri Lanka, but in Saturday’s presidential election, not even one will be on the ballot
September 21, 2024
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation
September 19, 2024
Japan's Icom said it was highly unlikely that wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon were the company's products.
September 21, 2024
Sri Lankans are voting in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval
September 21, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday that he is confident the AUKUS defence pact will be supported by any future U.S. administration, after a meeting with
September 20, 2024
US soldier who fled to North Korea sentenced to one year in confinement and dishonorable discharge
September 21, 2024
Millions of Sri Lankans were casting their votes on Saturday to select a president who will face the task of bolstering the South Asian
September 20, 2024
New Zealand’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Rose King, has highlighted the challenges Pacific Island nations face with foreign military training in an interview with The Associated Press
September 20, 2024
Japan and China said Friday they have reached a deal toward resolving their disputes over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea and Beijing’s ban on Japanese seafood
September 20, 2024
A Philippine senator leading an investigation into a former mayor's alleged links to Chinese criminal syndicates said on Friday she would not rule out her possible involvement in
September 20, 2024
China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday
September 20, 2024
Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast's losses widened in the second quarter due to rising costs linked to its overseas expansion and impairment
September 20, 2024
Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes with the most rigorous legal scrutiny, after considering
September 20, 2024
The lethal hack of Hezbollah's Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has sparked an intense search for the devices' path,
September 20, 2024
China's August youth jobless rate climbed to the highest level since last December, the statistics bureau said on Friday, as new graduates started to hunt for offers on the job
September 20, 2024
China's fiscal revenue in the first eight months of 2024 was down 2.6% from a year earlier, unchanged from July's seven-month reading, finance ministry data showed on Friday, as
September 20, 2024
Russia said on Friday the West was applying blatant pressure on China over Taiwan and its "provocative" actions undermined regional stability and international security.
September 20, 2024
Samsung Electronics has warned its striking workers in southern India they will not receive wages if they continue protesting and also face the risk of
September 20, 2024
Divorce rates in China are on the rise leading to many couples wanting to destroy memorabilia like photos and albums, which were made to last. In a warehouse 60 miles outside Beijing, Liu Wei and his team use industrial crushers to help dispose of these happy memories.
September 19, 2024
Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more
September 20, 2024
Nippon Steel plans to sell at least 30 billion yen ($211 million) in assets in this fiscal year to manage its debt, the Nikkei quoted its vice chairman as saying on Friday, as it
September 20, 2024
Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the island nation say they
September 20, 2024
China and Japan reached a consensus in August on the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday, bringing to an end
September 20, 2024
Japan's Tokyo Metro and Rigaku on Friday kicked off the processes to launch a combined $3.1 billion in initial public offerings (IPOs) next month,
September 20, 2024
Offshore share offering plans of at least three Chinese bubble tea makers have been put on hold by the securities regulator due to
September 20, 2024
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
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