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Here are a few stories from around Asia you may have missed this week.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen (L) congratulates Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with a floral bouquet in Dhaka on January 8, 2024. /CFP
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a fourth straight term in power, with her party, the Awami League, taking almost 75 percent of the seats in Sunday's general election. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted the polls.
Reuters reported that "in her (Sheikh Hasina's) past 15 years in power she has been credited with turning around the economy and the massive garments industry." This will be Hasina's fifth term in power in total.
Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of South Korea, speaking after being discharged from Seoul National University Hospital on January 10, 2024. /CFP
South Korea's main opposition party leader, Lee Jae-myung, was discharged on Wednesday from a Seoul hospital, where he had been recovering after he was stabbed in the southern city of Busan last week.
Speaking after leaving the hospital, he said he hoped his attack would mark the end of the "politics of hate," as police said the man accused of stabbing him told them he wanted to stop Lee from becoming president.
Volcanic material spewing from Mount Merapi, as seen from Tunggul Arum Village in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, January 5, 2024. /Xinhua
Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted once again on Wednesday, spewing ash clouds two kilometers into the sky. Authorities raised the volcano's alert status to the highest level.
The eruption follows weeks of heightened volcanic activity on the mountain, located on Indonesia's Flores Island, and prompted the local government to issue an evacuation order for nearby residents. Local authorities have established two temporary shelters, which are currently accommodating about 5,000 people.
A cannabis grower inspects cannabis plants in a growing room during a cultivation class at Royal Queen Seeds cannabis store in Bangkok, Thailand, September 9, 2023. /CFP
Thailand is proposing a ban on the recreational use of cannabis just 18 months after it was legalized. Smoking marijuana and its use in other forms for recreation will be banned under a draft bill that was published by the Health Ministry on Tuesday. The country was the first in Asia to legalize the recreational use of the plant.
The reversal meets Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin's election pledge to restrict the use of marijuana to medical purposes due to concerns over addiction. The draft bill calls for canvassing public opinion on outlawing the recreational use of the plant.
Voters line up outside a polling station in Thimphu, Bhutan, January 9, 2024. /CFP
A liberal political party led by former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is set to form a new government in Bhutan after winning its fourth free vote since elections began 15 years ago, provisional results by the country's election commission showed on Wednesday.
The tiny Himalayan kingdom of 800,000 people is struggling to revive its aid and tourism dependent economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Cover: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gestures after casting her vote at a polling station in Dhaka on January 7, 2024. /CFP)