After a string of serious crashes involving long-distance buses in recent years, Malaysia is pulling out the stops to improve safety and convenience for passengers.
Andre Mikhail died on Monday (Feb 23) evening, days after the Malaysian actress shared that her second son, Adrian Adam, had been diagnosed with bone cancer.
Preferential tariff treatment for Taiwan’s semiconductor exports already agreed with the US will not change.
China's commerce ministry said that only a small number of Japanese entities are targeted and that "honest and law-abiding Japanese entities have nothing to worry about".
Companies can apply to be removed from a “watch list” if they cooperate with Beijing’s verification terms.
The move follows an application in January filed by Petronas, the energy firm owned by Malaysia's federal government, seeking clarity about the legal and regulatory framework governing its operations in Sarawak.
Yoon Suk Yeol broke into late-night TV to deliver a shock address to the nation.
The Seoul Central District Court last week found Yoon Suk Yeol guilty of leading an insurrection designed to "paralyse" the National Assembly, sentencing him to life in prison.
Couples aged 67 and over now require A$730,000 (S$652,489) in pension savings for a comfortable retirement.
Washington’s political class tends to measure its commitment to Israel by the volume of its applause — how loudly it cheers Jerusalem, how quickly it moves an embassy, how swiftly it tears up an arms agreement with Tehran. By that metric, Donald Trump is the most “pro-Israel”
Asia cannot afford to treat President Donald Trump’s new 15% tariff as background noise. Markets have already delivered a verdict on the tone of this decision. Gold jumped to US$5,133 a troy ounce. The dollar slipped as investors absorbed the implications of a Supreme Court
The human remains were found near a golf club in the suburb of Pitt Town.
The prime minister ruled out holding a vote on turning Australia into a republic.
The inquiry comes after 15 people were killed and dozens hurt when two gunmen opened fire at a Jewish event.
Ms Kim Yo Jong – previously a deputy department director – has been promoted as a full department director.
Kim Yo Jong, previously a deputy department director, was named as a full department director by the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee on Monday (Feb 23).
Indian TV personality Surjan “Jolly” Singh, the chef behind Shikar at The Maxwell Reserve, has cooked for global megastars including Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan, but for him, "everyone's a celebrity". In Singapore, he’s celebrating regal flavours — and
Mr Kim called the next five years a “full-scale progress phase”.
Boong director Lakshmipriya Devi called attention to the situation in Manipur state in her acceptance speech.
The Trump administration is trying to work out a settlement to the Ukraine war. Part of the formula for success is convincing Russia to settle for less than what it wants, and convincing the Ukrainians to agree to a deal that Washington prefers. On the table for Russia are
No testimony will be heard, and no evidence will be given.
SYDNEY, Feb 24 - Australia will on Tuesday begin a government-backed inquiry into antisemitism, after an attack on a Jewish event last year killed 15 people.
SEOUL, Feb 24 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country will solidify and develop the quality of its economy over the next five years, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.
After toppling Sheikh Hasina’s regime and electing a new government, Bangladeshis will have their eye on major reform, says Iqbal Singh Sevea from the NUS Institute of South Asian Studies.
Kuala Lumpur is dusting off its grand old buildings and inviting the public back in.
The aircraft had taken off from Ranchi, Jharkhand, and was flying to Delhi carrying a patient and medical staff.
In the 19th century, Great Britain and Russia fought for control of the vast territory of Central Asia in a struggle known as the Great Game. Britain wanted to keep Russia away from India, its prime Asia colony, while Russia desired to expand its Tsarist empire southward. A
GENEVA, Feb 23 - The U.S. met a Russian delegation in Geneva on Monday and will meet a Chinese delegation on Tuesday for talks about forging a potential multilateral nuclear arms control treaty, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
China has warned of possible retaliation after US President Donald Trump signaled new Section 301 investigations that could target Chinese strategic industries, including electric‑vehicle (EV) batteries, rare earths and advanced artificial‑intelligence chips. The US Supreme
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned countries against backing away from recently negotiated trade deals with the U.S. after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs, saying that he would hit them with much higher duties under different
CAIRO, Feb 23 - Islamic State militants killed four Syrian government security personnel in northern Syria on Monday, the Syrian state news agency reported, in what would be the group's deadliest attack on government forces since the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.
Feb 23 - Ukrainian drones have struck a Russian pumping station serving the key Druzhba oil pipeline set up to supply Moscow's crude to eastern Europe, a Ukrainian security official said on Monday.
For many Western readers, the Chinese Spring Festival may appear as little more than red lanterns, fireworks and family gatherings. Yet within Chinese culture it is in fact the Chinese New Year — the beginning of a new cycle of time, a cultural river flowing unbroken for
Feb 23 - Another round of talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine could be held at end of this week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff told Ukrainian media on Monday.
ISLAMABAD/ KABUL, Feb 23 - At least 13 civilians were killed and seven injured in Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Monday, as cross-border tensions escalated following a string of suicide bombings in Pakistan.
Duterte is facing charges relating to a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.
Nepalese police say the British national was a 24-year-old man.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles.
KYIV, Feb 23 - Ukraine has regained control of 400 square kilometres of territory, including eight settlements, along a section of the southern frontline since the end of January, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Monday.
LONDON, Feb 23 - Britain's populist Reform UK party unveiled \"radical\" plans on Monday to stop what it called an immigration \"invasion\", promising to create an agency to deport thousands of illegal migrants and to leave human rights treaties if it wins power.
LONDON, Feb 23 - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would back plans to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession to the British throne, according to a letter shared by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office.
Feb 23 - Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday Turkey had agreed to take back Turkish citizens from among thousands of Islamic State detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria when camps and prisons there were shut in recent weeks.
THE HAGUE, Feb 23 - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was \"pivotal\" in the murder of thousands of people during his rule, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday, as they pushed for his trial to go ahead.
The US Supreme Court may have imposed a legal check on Donald Trump’s presidential power, but for global businesses and governments, the era of tariff turbulence is far from over, say experts.
In Brazil, the authorities have reported cases involving fake sales of South Korean travel packages.
LISBON, Feb 23 - The U.S. ambassador to Portugal has urged Lisbon to replace its ageing F-16 fighter jets with Lockheed Martin's F-35, saying the stealth jet would ensure interoperability with Europe's top-tier air forces.