The Latest Breaking News from Asia

Taiwan officially classifies Nipah virus—which kills 80–91% of infected people—as a Category 5 notifiable disease following India's outbreak, raising critical questions about media silence surrounding a pathogen deadlier than COVID-19.

Many airports in Asia have begun Covid-style screening after the Nipah virus outbreak in India

Despite the proliferation of startup-friendly jurisdictions worldwide, the United States remains the incorporation destination of choice for founders far beyond its borders. From Europe and Latin America to Asia and Africa, entrepreneurs continue to form U.S. entities even when their teams, customers, and operations remain entirely overseas.

UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established

More than 360 senior sports officials visited Tashkent as Asia’s Olympic leadership changed hands, new cooperation agreements were signed, and international federations inspected cutting-edge facilities, signalling rising confidence in Uzbekistan’s sporting infrastructure and organisation.

Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan rush to detect and prevent spread of Nipah virus from travellers

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Asian shares have mostly declined, as Japan’s benchmark took a tumble after the yen surged against the U.S. dollar

US climber takes an hour and half to scale one of Asia’s tallest buildings without ropes or a harness

How do camels survive in deserts?

Camel unique features such as travel in long distance across hot and sandy landscape

Camels are well suited to their desert habitats, with numerous clever adaptations that help them to tolerate extreme hot and cold environments. Camels are part of a group known…

Archaeologists have spent decades debating how and when people first entered the Americas. The outlines are familiar, but the details keep shifting. A growing body of evidence now suggests that the earliest populations arrived earlier than once believed and brought with them a shared way of making stone tools. This…