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Asia Pacific + South and central Asia

October 2026

  • Four athletes celebrate: an archer, shooter, sprinter and kabaddi team cheer with a baton and flag

    This Is India
    From competing for food to a gold medal: the stories behind India’s Asian Games winners

    The country’s 85-medal haul included athletes who trained with limited money and borrowed equipment. Plus, the Mumbai performer turning everyday absurdities into comedy
    Newsletter

September 2026

  • A policeman walks in front of buses in Kuala Lumpur carrying Myanmar nationals being repatriated from Malaysia despite concerns for their safety in the war-torn country.

    Malaysia begins Myanmar repatriations despite warnings from UN and rights groups

    Kuala Lumpur plans to send a total of 5,000 Myanmar nationals back to the war-torn country despite persecution concerns
  • This aerial picture shows a villager walking across a dried-up rice field with cracked soil caused by a prolonged dry season at Wening Galih village in Bogor, West Java

    ‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño

    From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
    • Xi Jinping gets red carpet at Brics summit amid thaw in India-China relations

    • Rescuers in Nepal find two more people alive after flash flood disaster

    • Inside Guardian Weekly
      Swept away: inside the 4 September Guardian Weekly

31 August 2026

  • Two soldiers in hard hats make their along a tunnel by torchlight

    Nepal rescuers race to reach hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels

  • Emergency workers carry out disinfection work amid the ruins of a swept-away building

    China is concealing scale of flood disaster, say Tibet campaigners

28 August 2026

  • Survivors pulled from the mud in Nepal

    Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened

  • A person looking flood devastation (JNA/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

    Today in Focus
    On the ground in decimated Nepal flood zone – The Latest

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  • Soldiers help a family disembark from a helicopter after they are rescued from an area affected by flash flooding in Nepal's Nuwakot district

    At least 93,000 ‘in great need’ after Nepal-Tibet flash floods, says Red Cross

  • Composite of the three women

    Families of 33 missing Britons rush to Nepal as fears grow of more floods

  • Which countries have citizens killed or missing after Nepal-Tibet flash flood?

  • Nepal-Tibet flood rescue efforts resume after being halted by overflowing lake

27 August 2026

  • A drone view shows mud covering properties following a flash flood in Trishuli, Nepal.

    Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 356

    Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

26 August 2026

  • Damaged properties after a flash flood at Trishuli, Nepal.

    Girl, 13, among missing British citizens after flash flood in Nepal

  • A lorry partly submerged in mud at a 45-degree angle in front of damaged buildings also partly submerged

    Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing

20 August 2026

  • A figure at the end of a dark, debris-strewn corridor

    They escaped south-east Asia’s scam compounds. Then they realised they were still trapped

    The cyber-fraud industry has flourished in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar, with thousands of people trafficked into the industry. But even those who have managed to find a way out often cannot return home

July 2026

  • Two people in raincoats wade through knee-deep floodwater on a submerged Dhaka street with shops and tangled overhead wires

    ‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons

  • Rice fields reflecting the sky

    Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource

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