Shortly after his trip to North Korea last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin was greeted in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, as an old friend. His 22-hour state visit received the highest level of reception and resulted in a number of agreements on energy and science and
Two more Chinese military leaders have fallen to President Xi Jinping’s corruption purge. While such dramatic expulsions grab headlines, nabbing individual bad apples does little to address systemic issues that enable corruption in the first place, says Ashton Ng from the
The president-elect’s youngest sibling Hashim Djojohadikusumo has ambitions to expand his already lucrative business portfolio. Analysts are raising concerns over the family’s growing commercial and political clout.
It was the moment when Israel’s military acknowledged the failure of its eight-and-half month war in Gaza – certainly the failure of the mission set out by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, when he said after the October 7 Hamas attack that he would destroy the militant
Director Naoki Yoshida says the new release is a significant moment for the Final Fantasy franchise.
The Punjabi singer has become one of the biggest names in the music industry - how did he do it?
North Korea says it succeeded in testing a multiple warhead missile, but the South and others are not convinced.
Chips are the key economic and military enablers of the industrial world. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol recently described chip technology leadership as paramount to a country’s economic survival (Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2024). The impact on military matters is
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), the world’s third largest chip-foundry after Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung, is reportedly struggling to increase the production yield of an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for Huawei Technologies. Since last
The indictments – and in some cases, the convictions – of hundreds of people charged with participating in the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, will have to be reconsidered and possibly dropped because of a ruling by the US Supreme Court on June 28, 2024. Among those
Although another American serviceman has been charged with sexual assault in Okinawa, provoking outrage among the local population and putting the large and controversial US military presence on the island back in the headlines, fear of China appears to have combined with a
The 13-piece boy band delight fans with the first ever K-pop set on the festival's main stage.
The double victory that I had hoped for on Thursday — Biden over Trump in the CNN debate and the US soccer team over Panama in Copa America — never happened, as both Biden and the soccer team went down in humiliating defeats. In fact, both bombed, and their fall was heard loud
Videos show crushed cars and broken pillars after a canopy over Terminal 1 collapses, killing one person.
The letters addressed to the prime minister appealed to the government to end ties with Israel.
The South Korean report uses defectors' accounts to build a picture of human rights in the North.
“Our security is closely linked to Malaysia’s security. Due to proximity, what happens in Malaysia will have an impact on our security landscape,” said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam.
Footage of the unveiling ceremony showed mannequins first wrapped in black cloth, with the fabric later removed following a countdown.
While there were zero terror attacks in Indonesia over the past one-and-a-half years, the head of the country’s counterterrorism agency warned that there should not be any complacency.
Some scenes were shot in Bangkok's Chinatown area, including Yaowarat Road, while some spotted the city's abandoned Oscar Theatre.
The employees are accused of selling shares before BTS members announced they were taking a break.
Ivan John E Uy, Philippine Secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology, spoke to CNA’s Craig Dale about the country’s cyber challenges and how it plans to address this bilaterally.
Hu Youping, a bus attendant, tried to restrain an assailant at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
The Department of Justice, Jho Low’s family and the family’s trustee are seeking “to reach a global, comprehensive agreement that forever resolves the United States’ civil, criminal and administrative asset forfeiture actions” of monies and assets traceable to 1MDB, according
