Around 10,000 people, mostly foreigners, have been freed from telecom fraud operations in Myanmar in recent days. Lured by lucrative job offers, they had found themselves trapped in scam centres where they were forced to work swindling people around the world. The latest crackdown sheds light on the multi-billion-dollar illegal industry, which has flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands.

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Japan continues to grapple with a post-Covid influx of tourists. A lack of cultural understanding and sometimes outright bad behaviour have caused an uproar among locals.

Scores of false killer whales have been put to death in Australia after they got stranded on a remote Tasmanian beach. Bad sea and weather conditions made it impossible to rescue them back into the ocean.

In Muslim-majority Indonesia, the island of Flores is a bastion of Catholic faith. Our reporters visit the world's largest seminary there, which trains and sends out priests to serve all over the world.

Finally, a Philippines village is offering bounties to people for capturing mosquitoes dead or alive, as the country faces an unexpected surge in dengue fever cases.

"I missed you a lot": Donald Trump gave Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a warm welcome at the White House. But behind the hugs, smiles and handshakes were intense negotiations. The US president complained about India's high tariffs on US goods while offering the Asian nation access to F-35 fighter jets. The Indian leader, for his part, was eager to ease friction on trade and immigration. FRANCE 24's Yuka Royer discusses the two country's ties with Suhasini Haidar, diplomatic editor of The Hindu.

US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze foreign aid programmes and effectively shut down USAID – the US government agency responsible for international development – has rattled countries across Asia. In Thailand, home to some 90,000 refugees from Myanmar, medical care for the displaced people has already been paralysed.

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It's called the silent killer: air pollution is killing over 100 children under the age of five every day across East Asia and the Pacific, according to a new report by UNICEF. The UN agency's policy specialist Nicholas Rees tells FRANCE 24 that air pollution not only affects children's health, it also deprives them of basic rights including education.

Plus, as the US president begins a trade war with China, a Trump-inspired opera has been a smash hit in Hong Kong, where people packed the iconic Sunbeam Theatre to see an unlikely mix of geopolitics, time travel and Cantonese singing laced with black humour.