Just minutes before US President Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market – and sent oil prices tumbling – with his disputed Monday announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions that allowed them to profit from the resulting movement in
Asia relies heavily on oil and gas from the Gulf, and shortages and higher prices are starting to bite.
ISLAMABAD, March 24 - Pakistan's role as a possible host of talks aimed at ending the Iran war builds on its courtship of U.S. President Donald Trump and its reputation as a relatively neutral player with long-standing ties to neighbouring Iran's Islamic Republic.
It’s tempting to see as a clear escalation ’s declaration on Sunday that all those holding US Treasury bonds are now legitimate targets of violent reprisals. Iran has – by attacking US bases in the region as far away as Cyprus, by restricting traffic through the Strait of
HONG KONG, March 24 - Hong Kong police arrested a bookstore owner and three shopkeepers on Tuesday for allegedly selling \"seditious\" publications including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai, broadcaster TVB reported.
The fire at Wang Fuk Court in 2025 was the world’s deadliest residential building fire since 1980.
March 24 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Tuesday and discussed the situation in the Middle East, including the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, U.S. envoy to India Sergio Gor and Modi said in separate posts
The war has caused "imminent danger" to the country's energy supplies, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr says.
KABUL/WASHINGTON, March 24 - The Afghan Taliban government on Tuesday released U.S. detainee Dennis Coyle after more than a year in detention, but Washington said the move was not sufficient to lift its recent designation of Kabul as a \"state sponsor of wrongful detention\"
Of the 1,488 hotspots detected across Thailand, 614 were found in conservation forests.
The interest comes amid China’s relative stability and the likelihood that its economic slowdown has bottomed out.
Manila sets aside 20 billion pesos to build a diesel buffer as the Middle East crisis persists.
March 24 - There is no direct Qatari mediation between the United States and Iran, but Doha supports all formal and informal diplomatic channels to end the war, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The current hot spell saw temperatures reaching up to 35 deg C.
It is due to a possible wiring fault in air conditioning units that poses a fire risk.
More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes. SpaceX recently announced that it wants to launch one million more of these
The woman is also accused of burying the child’s body.
South Korea took issue with matters such as Japan’s claim of sovereignty over the Dokdo islets.
Donald Trump is flailing. Despite easy battlefield victories, the Iran War is quickly turning into a quagmire; the regime has not fallen, and threats against oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz are causing gasoline prices to soar and threatening to reignite inflation. This
War exposes truth faster than any policy paper ever could. The US-Israeli confrontation with Iran is stripping away assumptions that have underpinned global capital allocation for decades. Oil above $100 and disruption through the Strait of Hormuz are only part of the story.
Mr Wong will also meet China’s National People’s Congress Chairman Zhao Leji, the country’s third-ranking leader.
Since assuming office, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has attended at least nine international summits and made more than 40 official visits to more than 20 countries.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will be delivering a keynote address at the Boao Forum for Asia’s annual conference, often touted as Asia’s version of the Davos World Economic Forum.
Even a small spark could ignite a major blaze amid the region’s drying vegetation.
What was expected to be a bumper year for Indian rice exporters – on the back of a strong harvest – has instead been upended by the ongoing war in Iran.
It will cause health risks and worsening air quality in highly polluted New Delhi.
The government released fuel from its reserve and has 30 days of diesel stored.
It said that it was “monitoring the situation closely and will remain agile”.
Official documents and state media have highlighted Xi’s personal role in planning, making decisions and advancing the Xiongan New Area in Hebei.
TOKYO — Say what you want about the Iranian regime, it’s a master troller in ways for which US President Donald Trump surely didn’t foresee. Nowhere is that more apparent — or potentially impactful — than Iran’s reported plan to showcase the yuan by requiring all oil tankers
Pakistan is leveraging close ties with Mr Trump, together with its longstanding bonds with neighbour Iran.
BEIJING, March 24 - China has lodged a strong protest and made representations with the Japanese after what it described as a \"forceful break-in\" at its embassy in Tokyo, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
The court sentenced Xie Yang to five years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Central Xiongan remains sparsely populated, but the city is targeted for basic completion in 2035.
BEIJING, March 24 - Chinese President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to the ambitious Xiongan project still under construction near Beijing, calling on officials to \"throw themselves\" into completing a task on which he has staked his name and legacy.
Manufacturers of govt-regulated garbage bags said they have only about one month of raw material inventories remaining.
The Philippines is also exploring the possibility of sourcing crude oil from Russia.
An individual scaled the wall and forcibly entered the Chinese Embassy in Japan.
The warning comes after patents on semaglutide, the ingredient in weight-loss drugs, expired on March 20 in India.
The 2026 Diplomatic Bluebook will instead describe China as an important neighbour.
TOKYO, March 24 - Japan will downgrade its description of ties with China from \"one of its most important\" in an annual diplomatic report, according to a draft reviewed by Reuters, as relations with Beijing worsen.
The government is calling on people to use washing machines and vacuums over the weekend.
March 24 - A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey, triggering sirens in the capital though no tsunami was expected.
The WFP supports nearly 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
On March 19, Ras Laffan, the largest liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in the world, supplying one-fifth of the world’s super-chilled fuel, was hit by Iranian missiles and drones. The Qatari terminal suffered substantial damage in the strikes – fires were raging across the