A 2,000-meter runway in Ban Keun, situated about 50 kilometers north of the Lao capital of Vientiane, is an unlikely location for US-China great-power rivalry. Yet it may become one of the most revealing markers of China’s strategic ambitions in Southeast Asia. On September 29,
BHUBANESWAR, India, Nov 3 - Cyclone Murasu made landfall along India's eastern coast on Tuesday, the country's weather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety.
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Downstreaming and Energy Transition Bahlil Lahadalia did not name any country specifically, but Singapore had previously granted conditional approvals for firms to import low-carbon electricity from Indonesia.
BANGKOK, Nov 3 - Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's government has agreed to a December 7 to 11 schedule for its first censure debate in parliament, an official said on Tuesday.
The accident comes during the peak trekking season in Nepal, when helicopters ferry hikers and climbers in the region.
The Indonesian citizens were initially offered jobs in logistics, border security and defence construction, but when arriving in Russia, were told to sign contracts to serve as mercenaries, undergo training and potentially be deployed to conflict zones.
Wong is already serving a nearly five-year jail term for subversion and was due for release in early 2027.
Despite echoes of past confrontations, North Korea’s shifting strategic priorities and hostile stance towards Seoul have raised questions about how the latest tensions could unfold.
An Indian national was killed and a New Zealander was injured.
Messaging platform Reddit said vast amounts of material were visible to people with no account.
CANBERRA, Nov 3 - Australia's world-first teen social media ban was \"ill thought out\" and amounted to a \"profound restriction on political debate\", a lawyer for messaging platform Reddit told the country's top court in the first legal challenge to the law.
These factories, which manufacture for brands like H&M and Uniqlo, rely on millions of lowly paid workers.
The theft occurred when a man, posing as a customer, tried on the timepiece and fled the shop while it was still on his wrist.
The incident comes amid growing calls for the temperature of political debate in Australia to be turned down.
As Chinese military pressure increases, Taiwan is pouring billions of dollars into aerial and sea drones.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 - Malaysia's chief secretary of the government and the governor of the central bank will hold separate meetings with government departments and financial institutions in an effort to prepare the country against security threats, the country's prime minister
He said cyberattacks in Europe, the US and Japan show wider risks, and Malaysia must stay alert.
The pledges come as Hong Kong works to reinforce its position as a global financial centre.
The remarks cast uncertainty over plans to supply 3.4GW of low-carbon electricity by 2035.
The country is set to go to the polls on Nov 7.
The warning follows the Binance theft and repeated cyberattacks on South Korea’s financial sector.
SEOUL, Nov 3 - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called on Tuesday for the creation of a powerful government-wide cybersecurity body to coordinate functions scattered across agencies, pointing to limitations in the current capacity to protect critical systems.
US government agencies and cyber analysts have blamed Pyongyang for the record-breaking heist.
Persistent weakness in the world's second-largest economy, reeling from sluggish consumption and a prolonged property sector debt crisis, and sharp falls in tech stocks have hit investor confidence.
Unlike ballistic missile launches, North Korean cruise missile tests are not prohibited by UN Security Council sanctions.
Authorities have razed hundreds of houses in a neighbourhood in central Delhi, saying they were built on government land.
The film star plays the leading role in a major new adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana.
A rights group will argue the world-leading policy robs under-16s of their right to free communication.
Kim Yo Jong said the accusations were 'absurd' and 'nothing new'.
Governments in Singapore and Malaysia are split between anxious citizens and an irascible neighbour.
SEOUL, Nov 3 - North Korea on Tuesday dismissed as \"absurd rhetoric\" US allegations that it was behind a $6 billion cryptocurrency heist on the Binance platform, saying they proved Washington remained hostile towards it, state news agency KCNA said.
The FBI said on Saturday that a North Korea-affiliated hacking group called TraderTraitor had been behind the hack.
Residents nearby are concerned that the resale prospects of their homes may be affected.
Growing up in Pyongyang, I believed the stories I was told about my home country. They were so powerful that, even as a young boy, I dreamt of becoming a military officer like my father. I imagined that one day I would march proudly in a North Korean uniform before Kim Il Sung.
The re-engagement marks a departure from years of US policy aimed at isolating the military.
PRAGUE, Nov 2 - A Prague court ruled on Monday that a Chinese man suspected of espionage in the Czech Republic was not guilty and ordered his release, the news agency CTK reported.
There’s some pretty grim news, but news that we must face. This summer and fall have seen a noticeable and continuing increase in the number of Ukrainian civilians being deliberately targeted and killed by Russian bombing. It is becoming more and more common to have mass
The government has formed a six-member wage board to address workers’ demands for a monthly minimum wage increase amid rising inflation and living costs.
Taiwan is moving to criminalize the unauthorized export of advanced AI chips to China, aiming to close a loophole exposed when Nvidia-powered servers bought on the island reached Chinese buyers via Indonesia, Japan, and Hong Kong. The Legislative Yuan’s Economics Committee held
The passport details of 168 people, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his security officers, had been posted on a paid website in early June.
"All parties should ... in a spirit of reason and pragmatism, focus on a political solution rather than once again resorting to armed conflict," said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
As President Donald Trump and Iranian officials traded threats over the weekend, and with the Trump administration reportedly considering renewed attacks against an underground complex it claims is a nuclear site – which Iran denies – critics of the US-Israeli war on the Middle
The Japanese online financial services provider's chief and three other execs will suffer pay cuts.
The file was posted days before Lee travelled to Europe in June.
The Foreign Ministry said it sees this as a leak and not a hacking case.
The vast majority of transplants in Vietnam rely on living donors.