Across the Indo-Pacific, governments are increasing defense spending, strengthening alliances, and placing renewed emphasis on deterrence. Strategic competition has once again become the defining feature of international politics. And in such an environment, international law
A nuclear submarine of the People's Liberation Army Navy launched the missile carrying a dummy warhead toward international waters in the Pacific at 12.01pm, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
BEIJING, July 6 - Nanning, capital of China's southwestern Guangxi region, raised its flood control response to the highest level as rivers and reservoirs swelled with the passage of Typhoon Maysak, Chinese state media said on Monday.
He had used a program he created with the assistance of ChatGPT to disrupt the Bandai Channel streaming service.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 - A Malaysian parliamentary committee will hold a hearing on July 16 to discuss a $96 million rare earths supply deal signed between Australia's Lynas Rare Earths and the U.S. Department of Defense earlier this year, a senior lawmaker said on Monday.
The mission, which was launched in May 2025, is China's first to collect samples from an asteroid.
Rebels, defectors and former insiders are introducing complications for political coalitions in Johor.
The order comes days after the BBC published an investigation about the platform showing such ads to users.
Every few months, another Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough makes global headlines. A Chinese AI model closes in on American rivals, a Chinese research team tops a benchmark, a Chinese factory gets smarter, a city more connected, a supply chain more predictive.
DHAKA, July 6 - At least eight Rohingya Muslims, including some children, were killed and several others injured early on Monday after heavy monsoon rains triggered multiple landslides at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said.
Chinese officials had briefed regional governments about an upcoming intercontinental ballistic missile test.
SYDNEY, July 6 - China is preparing to test fire a nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a dummy warhead in the South Pacific in the next 24 hours, Australian media reported on Monday, adding that regional diplomats have been notified of the launch.
The companies are HD Hyundai Oilbank, SK Energy, GS Caltex and S-Oil, Yonhap said.
A referee was also injured in the incident.
The test launch came hours after Australia signed a new defence pact with its Pacific island neighbour Fiji.
The new rules represent one of the most comprehensive set of regulations intended to forestall AI’s potential harms.
MUMBAI, July 6 - 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 heavy rains that have disrupted travel and shut down schools in the city.
SYDNEY, July 6 - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese apologised on Monday after making a crude remark about singer Kylie Minogue in a comedy podcast interview, prompting outrage from women's rights groups and opposition lawmakers.
Over the past six years, households near Hsinchu Science Park have reported some of the highest incomes in Taiwan.
WELLINGTON, July 6 - Heavy rain triggered flooding, road closures and evacuations in New Zealand's southern city of Dunedin and the neighbouring Waitaki District on Monday, with officials urging residents to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel.
WELLINGTON, July 6 - Super Typhoon Bavi was crossing the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean on Monday, lashing Guam, Tinian and Saipan and blasting Rota with catastrophic winds, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
There are currently four Chinese naval formations operating in the western Pacific, says an official.
TAIPEI, July 6 - 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 tactics, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Monday.
Senator Rodante Marcoleta is accused of violating anti-corruption laws.
It commits each country to come to the other's aid if either is attacked.
SYDNEY, July 6 - Australia and Fiji signed a major defence alliance on Monday, committing each country to come to the other's aid if either is attacked, as China seeks to expand its influence in the region.
This is Aamir Khan's third marriage.
A court in China ruled that Molly Tea had infringed on the luxury brand's four-petal flower design.
Albanese has apologised 'unequivocally' after his remarks prompted a backlash.
Relations between Dhaka and Delhi, that turned frosty under the interim government, are on the mend.
LONDON, July 6 - Britain tightened its rules on overseas political donations on Monday, as part of efforts to stop foreign money influencing elections, and as concerns swirl around what Housing Minister Steve Reed called \"dodgy funding\".
The trial is set to deepen a schism between two storied political dynasties that has plunged the Senate into turmoil.
TORONTO, July 5 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce on Monday the preferred bidder in a contract to build 12 submarines for Canada's navy, the Globe and Mail reported on Sunday.
The Trump administration wants Vietnam to stamp out its booming counterfeit industry. Locals are divided.
Barisan Nasional’s Onn Hafiz Ghazi is bidding for a second term as Johor chief minister. Who are his potential rivals from Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional?
A return to pre-war normalcy in the Strait of Hormuz is likely to be slow. This holds implications for Asia, says Coface chief APAC economist Bernard Aw.
A resurgent Naomi Osaka stuns world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a brilliant performance to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
The long-range/mid-range Ukrainian strike campaign is continuing to grow, ominously for Russia. Some Ukrainian analysis just released about the damage to Russian oil production for June, if true, shows that if a Russian counter is not in the works the Russian war economy will
The agency says that they "appear to be pressure vessels from a space launch vehicle".
An investigation revealed child abuse material was used in some Instagram advertisements in India.
Such tests have already been conducted in Japan on small vehicles or with a driver on board.
Nepal's 36-year-old rapper-turned-Prime Minister Balendra Shah took office in March 2026 but has kept an unusually low profile.
