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China and Japan reported conflicting accounts on Tuesday of a confrontation near the disputed Senkaku Islands involving their coast guards and a Japanese fishing
July 07, 2026
A riot in a Sri Lankan prison that killed 26 people and injured dozens was due to a clash between two groups over drug smuggling within the jail, a top
July 07, 2026
South Korea is enforcing a law that allows steep punitive damages against news outlets and social media influencers for spreading false information as journalist groups warned it could chill public discourse and invite censorship
July 07, 2026
A debate over use of traditional Chinese symbols has cropped up after a court ordered a Chinese tea chain to pay the French luxury brand Louis Vuitton $1.5 million over copyright infringement claims
July 07, 2026
Two tornadoes wrought devastation in central China's Hubei province, killing at least 11 people, as winds of up to 149 kph (93 mph) overturned cars and ripped
July 07, 2026
A commentary carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Tuesday criticised Japan's military expansion, saying its overseas aggression was "not hypothetical but reality" and
July 07, 2026
The world’s most livable city for 2026 has been revealed
July 07, 2026
Clashes inside a prison near Sri Lanka’s capital have killed at least 25 people, mostly inmates, and injured over 100
July 06, 2026
A rebound for AI stocks lifted the U.S. market
July 06, 2026
Flooding has killed at least two people in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, officials said on Monday, as rivers and reservoirs
July 06, 2026
India's anti-terrorism agency said it filed charges on Monday against Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-
July 06, 2026
The Kremlin said that joint naval drills between Russia and China which kicked off on Monday in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city of Qingdao were not directed
July 06, 2026
The impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte opened on Monday with prosecutors casting the case as a test of
July 06, 2026
Australia and Fiji have signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win within a year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific
July 06, 2026
The Philippine Senate has started the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte in a politically volatile event that will unfold against the backdrop of her feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thousands of police officers were deployed to secure the Senate on Monday
July 06, 2026
At least six people including five children were killed when a group of buildings collapsed in the eastern suburbs of India's Mumbai on Sunday, the latest casualties of
July 06, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.
July 06, 2026
Super typhoon smacks into US Pacific island territories home to key military bases
July 06, 2026
Taiwan is tracking an "upward trend" in Chinese naval movements during the peak military exercise season, including joint drills with Russia, and will be analysing any new
July 06, 2026
Turkish authorities detained more than 100 people taking part in an anti-NATO protest march
July 06, 2026
A tropical storm killed two people, caused dam breaches and forced tens of thousands to evacuate in southern China, state media reported
July 05, 2026
Founder of one of China’s biggest underground churches freed, reunites with family in US
July 05, 2026
ChinaAid, a Christian NGO, said on Sunday it welcomed the release of Zion Church Pastor Jin Mingri, who had been held in detention centres in the southern Chinese city of
July 05, 2026
Taiwan's military has resumed "anti-communist" patriotic classes for its graduates after a quarter-century gap, the defence ministry said on Sunday, citing a rising threat
July 05, 2026
A pastor of a prominent underground church detained in China in October has been released, according to rights advocates
July 05, 2026
China said on Saturday it had launched a new coast guard patrol east of Taiwan, drawing a sharp response from Taipei after a task
July 04, 2026
China's Chery formally took over Nissan's car manufacturing plant in Rosslyn on Friday under a deal that was announced in January, and executives
July 03, 2026
Iran is preparing for the dayslong funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
July 03, 2026
Tropical Storm Maysak lashed southern China's island province of Hainan on Friday, making landfall with maximum winds near its centre of 23 metres per second (51 mph) and
July 03, 2026
Early in the morning on June 18, a message from an unknown account slipped into the TikTok inbox of a flight attendant in
July 03, 2026
Police in New York City said on Thursday a man died from severe burns near the United Nations headquarters, and activists and a media outlet of exiled
July 03, 2026
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will attend a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, from July 7 to 8, Seoul's national security adviser said on
July 03, 2026
Japan's services sector returned to expansion in June after stalling the previous month, though business confidence remained subdued amid concerns over Middle East tensions
July 03, 2026
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, who fled to Taiwan amid fears of Chinese persecution, has died at the age of 70, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing
July 02, 2026
Authorities say man who flew plane into Beijing skyscraper previously expressed suicidal thoughts
July 02, 2026
A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream
July 02, 2026
Senior Chinese lawmaker He Wei will attend the funeral of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Thursday.
July 02, 2026
Officials in Thailand say an 11-year-old boy has crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk, killing eight
July 02, 2026
Samsung Group detailed plans on Thursday to invest 140 trillion won ($90 billion) for production of display panels, batteries, chips and chip materials in the central
July 02, 2026
Super Micro said on Wednesday that two workers at its Taiwan unit had been detained pending a court hearing and two others released on bail after being
July 02, 2026
North Korea and Russia appear unlikely to open a road bridge connecting their countries in the near term, despite an earlier mid-June target, after satellite
July 01, 2026
China has imposed new export controls on 40 Japanese entities, accusing them of contributing to Japan’s “remilitarization.”
June 29, 2026
China tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new unity law
July 01, 2026
Mourners are attending funerals of 14 schoolchildren who were killed when the roof of a tutoring center collapsed
July 01, 2026
Myanmar's new government aims to complete within roughly eight years a contentious
July 01, 2026
Australian bank Westpac said on Wednesday that non-executive director Peter Nash would leave its board, citing his relationship with troubled auditor KPMG.
July 01, 2026
China's leader has highlighted the country's rapid industrialization as a model for developing nations
July 01, 2026
Taiwanese ships off the island's east coast should ignore any boarding and inspection demands by China's Coast Guard, and if necessary Taiwanese Coast Guard vessels will
July 01, 2026
China's covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved by President Vladimir Putin's defence minister and directly involved at least four Russian and
July 01, 2026
A roof collapse at a tutoring center under construction in Lahore, Pakistan, has killed at least 14 schoolchildren
June 30, 2026
South Korea's Oceans Ministry said on Wednesday the cargo vessel Namu, operated by HMM, would exit the Strait of Hormuz in mid-July at the earliest once the damage sustained
July 01, 2026
China’s humanoid robots have captivated the world. A rental market is exposing their limits
June 30, 2026
Gojek co-founder Nadiem Anwar Makarim has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after Indonesia’s anti-graft court found him guilty in a high-profile corruption case stemming from his time as education minister
June 30, 2026
China's food delivery giant Meituan said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat large language
June 30, 2026
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te warned military cadets on Tuesday not to succumb to China's spying activities and to defend freedom and
June 30, 2026
China says its factory activity picked up pace in June
June 30, 2026
Officials in Afghanistan say overnight strikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160
June 29, 2026
A 17-year-old Thai girl was on a lively strip of palm-fringed sand in the seaside city of Pattaya on Wednesday night
June 29, 2026
At least 28 civilians were killed and 49 injured in airstrikes carried out by Pakistan on its border with Afghanistan, the United Nations Assistance
June 29, 2026
Chinese dissident Dong Guangping has finally reached Canada after a perilous escape from China
June 29, 2026
Apple has accused Indian antitrust investigators of "copy-pasting" its rivals' claims and failing to properly conduct its own investigation in concluding
June 29, 2026
Asian markets were choppy on Monday as investors weighed AI-driven growth against rising cost pressures, while keeping an eye on a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire
June 29, 2026
Ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return to Bangladesh this year, brushing aside a death sentence handed down in absentia and denouncing the ruling as
June 29, 2026
China's factory activity likely returned to growth in June, albeit by the slimmest of margins, as the world's second-largest economy struggles for momentum despite strong
June 29, 2026
Singapore's Workers' Party has retained Pritam Singh as its secretary-general, despite his removal as Leader of the Opposition by the Prime Minister earlier this year
June 29, 2026
When Yeh Chih-sheng steps aboard Taiwan Coast Guard vessel CG1005 in the choppy waters of the Taiwan Strait, he brings
June 29, 2026
The family of a 17-year-old Thai girl whose body was found in a suitcase in Pattaya said they were devastated by her death, for which an Australian
June 28, 2026
Pakistan’s military says three paramilitary soldiers were killed and four others wounded in fighting after militants launched an overnight attack on a Rangers regional headquarters in the southern port city of Karachi
June 28, 2026
South Korea and Japan on Sunday reaffirmed their commitment to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and agreed to revive joint search-and-rescue drills in a step
June 28, 2026
A bomb and gun attack on a Sindh Rangers facility in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and injured four on Saturday, Pakistan's military said, as the country
June 28, 2026
A Chinese political dissident who fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada
June 27, 2026
A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean
June 27, 2026
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, causing panic among residents
June 27, 2026
Two major storms are pounding Japan, causing landslides and floods
June 27, 2026
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