Chinese President Xi Jinping will declare the Asian Games open at a ceremony in Hangzhou on Saturday, launching a two-week sporting extravaganza that boasts more athletes than the Olympics.
Volunteer firefighters are scorching Australia's forest undergrowth, reducing fuel for what is expected to be the fiercest fire season since the monster "Black Summer" blazes.
The smog that the residents of Metro Manila has been experiencing has no connection with Taal Volcano’s volcanic smog or vog, according to the chief of the Department of Science and Technology.
The Indian Parliament has taken a substantial step toward gender equity as the Lok Sabha, parliament's lower house, passed the Women's Reservation Bill, which sets aside 33% of the seats in the lower house and state assemblies for women.
An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman to two years in prison and handed her a heavy fine after she recited an Islamic prayer before eating pork in a viral TikTok video widely criticized in the Muslim-majority country.
