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The Health Sciences Authority approves the use of the Moderna vaccine for people aged above 18 in Singapore, becoming the first country in Asia to do so.
2021-02-3

Typhoon Maysak, the strongest typhoon of the season, makes landfall along the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, southwest of Busan, South Korea.
2020-09-3

Eleven countries in Asia, North America, Oceania, and South America sign the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
2018-03-8

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says his country is willing to accept some asylum seekers from the Middle East and Asia, currently in detention camps on impoverished Pacific island nations. Presently, 267 refugees in Australia for medical treatment, some accompanied by a relative, are set to be returned to Nauru’s detention camp. Australia is hesitant about the offer, concerned that it could encourage people smugglers.
2016-02-19

Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.
2013-10-29

The All Ordinaries Index on the Australian Stock Exchange falls by 4.4% with Asian markets generally down.
2011-08-19

International stock markets slump in value in Asia, Europe and North America due to speculation brought about by comments from the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
2010-08-11

Three people are killed in Srinagar, Kashmir after police shoot at people protesting at the fatal shooting of people by police.
2010-07-6

Protesters try to enter the United Nations compound in Colombo, Sri Lanka, calling for the United Nations to abandon an inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the final stages of the civil war between the government and Tamil rebels that ended last year. Staff are unable to leave until being assisted by Sri Lankan police.
2010-07-6

Thailand extends a state of emergency in several provinces and in the capital Bangkok, and lifts the decree in a further five provinces.
2010-07-6