SEOUL, June 24 - North Korea should build two warships as large as its 5,000-metric-ton Choe Hyon vessel every year in the next five years, leader Kim Jong Un said at a commissioning ceremony of a destroyer on Tuesday, according to state media KCNA.
Sarawak-owned AirBorneo has irked passengers with high prices and flight disruptions. But the East Malaysian state can still prevent bad optics from turning into a political problem, analysts say.
The significance of the ASEAN-Russia summit lies in the grouping's desire to preserve room for manoeuvre, says an ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute academic.
Foreign Secretary Maria Theresa Lazaro lays out Manila's ambitions – and the obstacles still standing in the way.
On June 3, at a US House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the State Department budget, Representative Darrell Issa made a request. “Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the Wall Street Journal article entitled ‘South Korea Takes a Hard Left Turn Against America’ be
As South Korea hosts the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity from June 24 to 26, an important question confronts policymakers across Asia: What is the future of peace on the Korean Peninsula? Equally important is how South Korea’s evolving strategic and domestic realities will
LONDON, June 23 - An evacuation plan to enable hundreds of ships with some 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf to sail through the Strait of Hormuz is underway after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, the United Nations' shipping agency said on Tuesday.
LONDON, June 23 - The world’s most climate-vulnerable nations and a set of major development banks launched a new initiative on Tuesday aimed at unlocking cheaper and more predictable funding for countries increasingly facing climate shocks and rising debt costs.
Bangladesh is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change.
BRUSSELS, June 23 - A delegation from Afghanistan's Taliban met on Tuesday with EU officials in Brussels for the first time, an event rights groups denounced as legitimising the Islamists but the EU has defended as a step to make it easier to repatriate failed asylum seekers.
It is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese supercomputer has led the TOP500 ranking list.
Alan Greenspan, whose policies during nearly 20 years as US Federal Reserve chair fueled soaring economic inequality and helped create the conditions for multiple economic crashes, died Monday at age 100 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. While many corporate media
Human rights campaigner Mahrang Baloch denied inciting protesters before the official's death.
The ban means hot dogs, burgers, pizzas, doughnuts, ice cream, biscuits and flavoured milk.
She was met with chants, “No to war” and “Protect Article 9“ of the pacifist Constitution that renounces war.
He was carrying fake Philippine government-issued identification cards bearing a fictitious name.
It is the first time that North Korean fences have been confirmed to have been built within 100m north of the MDL.
ROME, June 23 - More countries could join the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) fighter project involving Italy, Britain and Japan, the Italian defence minister said on Tuesday, stressing that opening the venture to other nations would allow greater sharing of costs.
It is on Toyko's list of ships to evacuate islanders to mainland Japan in the event of a crisis.
DUBAI, June 23 - Oman and Iran agreed on Tuesday to press on with discussions about the future administration of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, including maritime services in the strategic waterway and the costs associated with them.
The Fujian is last known to have sailed through the strait in mid-December.
TAIPEI, June 23 - China's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier the Fujian sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said, the first such mission in the sensitive waterway since April.
BEIJING, June 23 - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on BRICS countries on Tuesday to jointly respond to global challenges from Ebola to AI, and to strengthen cooperation on strategic mineral resources, according to a statement from his ministry.
June 23 - The world is baking under extreme heat, with Europe, Asia and parts of the U.S. all dealing with scorching temperatures.
The Supreme Court called the group's dissolution "necessary and inevitable".
The companies will begin implementing the new commissions on July 1.
An initial inspection found that the building was unoccupied at the time of the collapse.
Dewi allegedly threw a champagne glass at her assistant in 2025.
When looking at today’s Middle East, it is important to recognize that Israel is completely out of control, and no one has the will to rein them in. This should have been understood back in July of 2024, in the waning days of the Biden administration, when Israeli Prime
The influence of rising powers in the Middle East is unlikely to take the form of the military presence traditionally associated with the United States, say analysts at the Middle East Institute’s annual conference.
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 23 - Israeli gunfire killed two people in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, Lebanon's Civil Defence and state media said, the first reported fatalities resulting from Israeli fire in Lebanon in three days.
Many facilities along parts of the Myanmar-Thailand border are operated by foreign nationals trafficked there.
Although it introduced electronic declarations in 2019, about half are still submitted on paper.
TOKYO — Kevin Warsh’s arrival at Federal Reserve headquarters isn’t playing out the way Asia hoped. Since taking the baton from Jerome Powell on May 22, Governor Warsh has run notably more hawkish than US President Donald Trump wanted — or at least so far. He could still be
Initial questioning by the authorities indicated the two suspects may have been bullied since the seventh grade.
There are now just 600 bookstores in the country, down from 895 in 2001.
Japan isn’t just selling warships — it’s quietly building a new Indo-Pacific security architecture in the shadow of China’s rise, amid uncertainty in US leadership. This month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Japan is actively marketing its advanced, stealthy Mogami-class
He also rapped the US and South Korea for “extremely aggravating the situation in the Korean peninsula”.
Rolling blackouts last week across Java are the latest setback for President Prabowo Subianto.
When it was signed at the end of the G7 summit on June 17, the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough. By reopening the Strait of Hormuz, easing sanctions and launching a 60-day negotiating process, it felt like a positive step on the
Lee also called for crackdown on workplace abuses after death of firefighter in her 20s.
The ad sparked accusations of sexism in China, after featuring a man looking for a partner who is "not tainted by other men".
Silicon shock, token inequality, and techflation are no longer fringe theories floated on these pages. They have become the invisible gravity warping the global economy, rewriting policy, and keeping politicians awake at night. In January, when we called silicon shock an
India and China reviewed recent developments in bilateral relations during the meeting.
Nearly 50,000 cases have been reported in 2026, with 29 deaths.
Samsung and SK Hynix shed more than 12 per cent each, triggering an automatic 20-minute bourse-wide trading halt in the afternoon.
