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A layer of smog hangs over Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Mar 13, 2025

Mongolia's children choke in toxic pollution

By Rebecca Bailey

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for more than a decade.

A worker adjusts an anti-smog dust suppression sprayer installed at a construction site in Lahore on Feb. 17. Tens of millions of Pakistanis spent at least four months breathing toxic air pollution 20 times above safe levels, in the worst winter smog season for several years.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Mar 12, 2025

'Really suffocating': Pakistan emerges from record smog season

By Valentin Rakovsky

Pakistan regularly ranks among the world's most polluted countries, with Lahore often the most polluted megacity between November and February.

Some 230 million people globally thought to be affected by long COVID. The effects range from mild to disabling, and there are no proven diagnostic tests or treatments.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Mar 1, 2025

'Going mad': Lack of data plagues Asia's long COVID patients

By Annie Banerji and Mariejo Ramos

Some 230 million people are thought to be affected by long COVID — defined as symptoms persisting for three months or more after the initial infection.

Volunteer Nhoun Niyok shows villagers how to use a mosquito net to prevent malaria in Cambodia's northeastern Mondulkiri province on Jan. 16.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Feb 14, 2025

Cambodia nears Khmer Rouge survivor's dream of eradicating malaria

By Suy SE

The hope is for zero cases this year — a remarkable turnaround for a country that was formerly an epicenter of multi-drug resistant strains.

Thailand's Royal Rainmaking department takes part in an atmospheric modification mission to displace pollution by spraying icy water in the air over the outskirts of Bangkok.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Jan 27, 2025

Ice in the sky: Thailand's fight against air pollution

By Sally JENSEN

The new technique of spraying dry ice or cold water into the air was first used last year and is still in its testing stages.

Workers retrieves tsunami buoy Thai 23461 in the Andaman Sea on Nov. 28.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Dec 25, 2024

The tsunami detection buoys safeguarding lives in Thailand

By Watsamon TRI-YASAKDA

They form part of a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly as a huge December 2004 tsunami caused by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean.

A farmer burns straw stubble after harvesting a paddy field on the outskirts of Jind in India's Haryana state on Nov. 26.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Dec 3, 2024

The farm fires helping to fuel India's deadly air

By Arunabh SAIKIA

Burning is a cheap way to clear fields for new crops, making it hard for farmers to shift to other methods despite the consequences.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.

What comes after 100?

By Tomoko Otake

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Looking ahead to Yokohama’s Green × Expo 2027

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