The Maharani Freeport - which consists of three manmade islands off the coast of Muar - is targeting crude carriers plying the Straits of Malacca. But can it lure business from more established ports in the region?
US President Donald Trump is turning to trusted envoys such as his son-in-law to achieve diplomatic breakthroughs. But these efforts come at a cost to America’s allies, argues Kevin Chen from RSIS.
Ho Chi Minh City police are using humour online to create a friendlier, more familiar voice, says an ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute academic.
Once said to be the Manchester of Bihar for its weaving tradition, Patwa Toli is now known as an IIT Village.
Australia is banning social media for everyone under 16 from December 10. The BBC spoke to two teenage content creators about how this might change their lives.
Kimchi has been enjoyed for centuries in Korea. But the spicy fermented cabbage dish has recently gained popularity in other parts of the world not only because of its delicious taste, but because of its potential to positively influence the many thousands of important microbes
KYIV, Dec 4 - Tens of thousands of people were left without power and heating in southern Ukraine after Russian attacks on the frontline city of Kherson and Ukraine's largest seaport, Odesa, authorities and a top energy provider said on Thursday.
Once again there is an impasse in the attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the US team led by Donald Trump’s envoys, businessmen Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, has failed to make
Burkina Faso’s security minister headed to Tehran on November 12, 2025, for high-level talks with Iranian officials. The visit was a fruitful one: The West African nation reopened its Iranian embassy, finalized new agreements on security cooperation and held discussions about
LONDON, Dec 4 - Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the entire GRU military intelligence agency that was singled out in a UK public inquiry into the 2018 death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration late Tuesday paused all immigration applications from 19 countries the president earlier had listed for restricted travel into the United States, a move that freezes processing for green card holders and citizenship applications. Included
The main road in Kandy province has been cut off for over a week due to falling boulders and landslides.
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday to start a two-day state visit, and India and Russia both said they want to boost mutual trade and expand the variety of items in transactions.
WASHINGTON, Dec 4 - The Pentagon has completed its review of the AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership and found areas to put the deal on the \"strongest possible footing,\" a U.S. official said on Thursday.
China welcomes such a stance as it means a Europe that is less aligned with the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his first visit to India since the Ukraine war, with possible deals on fighter jets and air defence systems expected to be discussed.
Major roads around the Kuala Lumpur City Centre came to a standstill from as early as 5pm.
The US has put pressure on India to shun Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
Dec 4 - Israel's Army Radio, citing security sources, said on Thursday that Yasser Abu Shabab, the most prominent anti-Hamas clan leader in Gaza, had died in a hospital in southern Israel of unspecified wounds.
JAKARTA, Dec 4 - Indonesia is investigating companies suspected of clearing forests around flood-hit areas in Sumatra, its forestry minister said on Thursday, acknowledging poor forest management worsened the disaster.
MADRID, Dec 4 - Spanish police have dismantled a crime ring accused of bringing in hundreds of foreign migrants irregularly to work at farms across eastern Spain in what the Interior Ministry described as inhumane, slave-like conditions.
The carrier’s flight disruptions have persisted for three days since Dec 1.
In the final years of Joko Widodo’s presidency, Nusantara —Indonesia’s new capital in East Kalimantan —was hailed as a bold experiment in nation-building. Conceived as a sustainable smart city meant to redistribute growth beyond Java’s overburdened plains, it was Jokowi’s
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 - India and Russia want to boost their trade and expand the variety of items in transactions, both said on Thursday as Russian President Vladimir Putin headed to New Delhi to start a two-day state visit.
LONDON, Dec 4 - Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the state's GRU military intelligence agency, following a UK public inquiry report into the death of a woman after being poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.
KOTHMALE, Sri Lanka, Dec 4 - Residents of Kithulbadde village in central Sri Lanka say they have been left in the lurch after last week's deadly cyclone and many are stuck in relief centres as damaged infrastructure has made them wary of returning home.
MOSCOW, Dec 4 - Russia said on Thursday that any \"illegal action\" by the European Union in relation to its frozen assets would elicit \"the harshest reaction\", and that Moscow was already preparing its response.
Dec 4 - Results flipped in the contested Honduran presidential election as conservative candidate Nasry Asfura took a slight lead over centrist Salvador Nasralla, with 84.4% of the votes counted.
The ministry cited security risks and its alleged involvement in over 1,700 fraud cases since 2024.
The authorities said the adjustment reflects improvements in public safety.
If realised, the visit will be symbolic of a recent improvement in bilateral ties.
Myanmar’s military regime has announced elections will be held in three phases, starting on December 28 and concluding in January. Two outcomes are certain: first, the military-aligned party will be recorded as winning and, second, the government in exile – the National Unity
ROME, Dec 4 - Italy's defence minister on Thursday said other countries, including Germany and Australia, may be interested in entering the GCAP fighter jet programme in the future, with requests also coming from Saudi Arabia and Canada.
India expects to take delivery of the nuclear-powered vessel within two years.
The US has begun deploying its own Shahed-style drones in the Middle East — but the same low-cost swarming logic that works against Iran may fall apart in the vast, naval-dominated Pacific. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US has deployed its first operational
BAGHDAD, Dec 4 - Iraq will freeze the money of Iran-backed armed groups, including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthis, the official gazette said.
ANKARA, Dec 4 - Turkey's defence ministry said on Thursday construction work had started on its first indigenous submarine (MILDEN), adding that Ankara had also completed its first sale of a corvette warship to a NATO ally by inking an agreement with Romania.
The corporate world has faced its share of existential shocks: Y2K, the collapse of trust in TLS/SSL cryptographic protocols and the stringent enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Each was initially dismissed as a distant technical
MOSCOW, Dec 4 - President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine's Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, something Kyiv has flatly rejected.
ATHENS, Dec 4 - Two dozen aid workers went on trial in Greece on Thursday on charges including migrant smuggling, in a case that rights groups have dismissed as a baseless attempt to outlaw aid for refugees heading to Europe.
The Indonesian weather agency warned that some provinces in Sumatra would see moderate to heavy rain.
MANILA, Dec 4 - The Asian Development Bank and the World Bank on Thursday launched two Pacific islands projects under a first-of-its-kind cofinancing model that aims to streamline processes and speed up delivery.
The earthquake struck at 3.44pm local time, with the epicentre at a depth of 10km.
The public backs PM Sanae Takaichi's moves to make Japan more militarily formidable.
The operations are said to exceed a mass naval deployment in 2024 that prompted Taiwan to raise its alert level.
This article was jointly reported by Peter J Quaranto, visiting professor of the practice, University of Notre Dame; Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, professor of the practice in international peace studies, University of Notre Dame; Pavlo Smytsnyuk, visiting scholar at the Jordan