KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim on Sunday, as the two countries look to bolster trade and explore potential collaborations in semiconductors, defence and other fields.
Japan’s general election campaign ended on Saturday with major party leaders holding competing rallies across Tokyo. This has by any definition been a strange campaign. It was unexpected; it was the shortest-ever general election; its coming spurred the unlikely creation of a
Observers say Sanae Takaichi's personal popularity may boost the ruling party's showing at the polls.
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi had earlier received the endorsement of US President Donald Trump.
For the first time in Thailand’s history, a national referendum will be held alongside the general election on Sunday (Feb 8). Voters will not only elect 500 Members of Parliament, but also decide whether a new constitution should be created.
The last party congress – the reclusive nuclear-armed nation’s eighth – was held in January 2021.
SEOUL, Feb 8 - North Korea will convene the 9th Congress in late February in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported on Sunday, without elaborating on the date.
During a tragic 48-hour period from Jan 18 to 20, the city recorded four separate shark attacks.
A businesswoman, who made fortunes from Chinese women's desire to be desired, is now being probed.
There are louder calls for market reforms after the recent 9 per cent market slide.
After decades working in the private tech industry, Julia Inman Grant now finds herself on the other side.
The four are suspected of facilitating a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 people, Pakistan's interior minister said.
Feb 7 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Washington, where they will discuss negotiations with Iran, Netanyahu's office said on Saturday.
Feb 7 - Algeria has begun the process of cancelling its air services agreement with the United Arab Emirates, signed in Abu Dhabi in May 2013, state media said on Saturday.
The company quickly realised its mistake and managed to recover virtually all the missing tokens from customers.
The mistake, which was caused by an employee, was identified within 20 minutes.
Police raided two villas and arrested 39 Indian nationals, seizing phones, laptops and computers.
A feasibility study completed by March.
CAIRO, Feb 7 - Iran will strike U.S. bases in the Middle East if it is attacked by U.S. forces that have massed in the region, its foreign minister said on Saturday, insisting that this should not be seen as an attack on the countries hosting them.
Immigration screening "has already become a little stricter, so that terrorists, and also industrial spies, cannot enter easily", Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said during a rally.
BEIJING, Feb 7 - China conducted naval and air patrols in the South China Sea from Monday to Friday, the China Southern Theater Command said in a statement on Saturday.
As prices soar, South Koreans are increasingly moving away from gold at key life events.
MOSCOW, Feb 7 - Two suspects in the attempted assassination of top Russian military intelligence official General Vladimir Alexeyev \"will soon be interrogated,\" the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the investigation.
The elephant's carcass was found on Feb 2 with the head missing.
Families are struggling to access emergency funds as gold lenders run short on cash before festivals.
Opinion polls suggest that her ruling bloc could secure a two-thirds majority in the Lower House.
Compound near Thai-Cambodian border offers look into fraud that has claimed victims globally.
Captains grab tokens on moving trains — a 140-year safety ritual still protecting single tracks.
Residents are also concerned there could be further attacks.
An earlier ruling annulled HK-based CK Hutchison’s contract to operate two ports at the Panama Canal.
She said visits to the graves by ageing former islanders is a “humanitarian issue”.
The Australian mint posted an explanation of the coins’ details, including motifs celebrating her love of horses and dogs.
Thai forces took control of several patches of disputed land along the Thai-Cambodian border during fighting last year, which could amount to several square kilometres in total.
The patient had a history of consuming raw date palm sap, which can be contaminated by infected bats.
When Brussels convinced itself that regulation could substitute for power and values for capacity, leverage migrated elsewhere. Europe rendered its own vulnerabilities exploitable; Washington and Beijing simply did not hesitate to use them. Sermons multiplied as factories
Indonesia’s investment authority recently informed Parliament that PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, a Chinese major nickel smelter in Central Sulawesi, has never submitted its mandatory Investment Activity Report. The disclosure emerged during a 2025 review of smelter
Gold, long seen as a safe-haven asset to hedge against political and economic risks, saw a wild run in a speculative buying spree in January that took it to a record near US$5,600 per ounce.
As the United States weighs fresh strikes on Iran, the prospect of a wider regional conflict is once again coming into focus. For many of Washington’s allies, the question is no longer whether escalation is possible, but how they would respond if it spiralled into all-out war.
Four-year-old Gus Lamont was reported missing in late September 2025.
The sixteen-day general election campaign enters its final day of campaigning with the country in the throes of heavy snowfall and plunging temperatures. The Japanese Meteorological Agency predicts that heavy snowfall will peak on election day, with an uncertain impact on
Bithumb had planned to distribute small cash rewards of 2,000 Korean won (US$1.37) to each user as part of a promotional event, but winners received at least 2,000 bitcoins each instead.
A total of 16 items will be placed under price control.
The patient developed symptoms consistent with Nipah virus on Jan 21 and died a week later.
Women in the country traditionally give a box of chocolates to men.
Japan lowered the voting age to 18 from 20 in 2016.