Southeast Asia is facing a new coronavirus outbreak caused by one of the new strains that has already swept across Europe and the United States. In the Philippines, it caused the largest outbreak in the region. Scientists are studying the strain to see if the mutation makes the virus more infectious. Bloomberg writes about this. ...

At least two Central Asians are suspected in the United States of smuggling and arms trafficking. One of the suspects is the son of the former ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States. The second is reportedly a citizen of Kazakhstan, Radio Liberty reports. The son of the former ambassador of Kyrgyzstan...

UBS experts counted 637 billionaires in Asia versus 563 in the United States. Having outnumbered, the Americans are still outnumbered in total wealth: the combined capital of American billionaires is estimated at $ 2,8 trillion, Asian - at $ 2 trillion. In 2016, the number of dollar billionaires in the world ...

Russian striker "Washington Capitals" Stanislav Galiev, while on vacation in Vietnam, ate the heart of a killed cobra. The athlete spoke about this in a post on his Instagram account. “Today I ate the beating heart of a cobra and washed it down with her blood,” Galiev wrote. ...

Neither Russia nor China has an inch of the Mediterranean coast - and this makes their idea of ​​holding the first joint naval exercises in the Mediterranean Sea unexpected and even provocative. The ten-day maneuvers, which began on Monday, will include combat ...

Japanese Air Force fighters have raised alarms more than 900 times in the past year to intercept aircraft approaching the country's airspace, the Japanese Defense Ministry said. Basically, we are talking about aircraft of the Russian and Chinese air forces. However, as the Japanese department emphasizes, the air ...