China will further liberalize pricing for coal-fired electricity and force industrial and commercial power consumers to buy from the market in its latest attempt to deal with an energy crisis that could cripple its economy this winter and into next year.

Japan's new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, defended his pro-nuclear energy policies on Monday, saying that re-starting nuclear power plants mothballed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster was vital.

NEW DELHI — Strong political leadership and earnest implementation of policies by a committed bureaucracy have been two key factors in India's relative success in containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior health official said.

Singapore is opening its borders to more countries for quarantine-free travel as the city-state seeks to rebuild its status as an international aviation hub, and prepares to live with Covid-19.

Through global ups and downs over the past more than five decades, the role and mettle of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been reinforced and sharpened, making the bloc more complete and become stronger, Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn has stressed in an article on the occasion of the association’s 54th founding anniversary (August 8, 1967-2021).

The European Union said it has supplied 33 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Southeast Asia and plans to provide more.

The 28th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF-28) took place virtually on August 6 as part of the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM 54) and Related Meetings.

This coming Sunday, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates the 54th “ASEAN Day.” For over half a century, ASEAN Member States (AMS) have promoted multilateral dialogue and cooperation. Embracing globalisation, many countries in the region enjoyed explosive economic growth and have collectively emerged as the 5th largest economy in the world.

China has witnessed unprecedented growth of economy in the past few decades serving as manufacturing and production hub of the world.

Hundreds of thousands of people in China were in lockdown Friday as the country battled its worst Covid-19 outbreak in months, while Japan, a week into the Olympics, extended its state of emergency.