Asia

2 mins read Mumbai (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and

< 1 min read Ahmedabad (Reuters) – Police in India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week

2 mins read Seoul (Reuters) – South Korea will make an emergency cash payment to most families and draw up a second supplementary

2 mins read New Delhi (Reuters) – India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus,

2 mins read Wuhan (Reuters) – China reported a drop in new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as drastic curbs on international

3 mins read Wuhan (Reuters) – The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on

2 mins read New Delhi (Reuters) – India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for

2 mins read Peshawar (Reuters) – When Saadat Khan, 50, returned to Pakistan on March 9 from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, he

2 mins read Mumbai (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Indians stayed indoors on Sunday, heeding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens

2 mins read Mumbai (Reuters) – Thousands of poor city migrants whose livelihoods have collapsed due to India’s coronavirus measures headed back to