WELLINGTON, May 25 - New Zealand will tighten English language rules for mid-skilled work visa applicants while expanding philanthropy options for investor migrants, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said on Monday.
With accessible travel in Taiwan, tech-enabled caregiving in Hong Kong and digital upskilling in Indonesia, communities in Asia are starting to redefine the ageing experience. These are just some of the initiatives backed by the DBS Foundation.
Indonesia and Malaysia are considering tighter visa and immigration rules to combat criminal networks and scam syndicates that make use of foreigners, but experts caution that there are diplomatic and economic costs to consider.
“The era in which a terrorist group held an entire nation hostage is coming to an end,” Mr Rubio said.
Nearly five years on from the school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams.
An election in Malaysia is due only in 2028 but contenders to PM Anwar Ibrahim's throne are already plotting their way to the top.
China faces a 4 million shortfall in AI workers by 2030 and is looking to Singapore campuses to help fill the gap.
Posting on Telegram, Netanyahu said this would require dismantling Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities and removing enriched nuclear material from its territory.
The Shenzhou-23 mission will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time.
President Donald Trump revealed over the weekend that he is mulling a deal that would end his war with Iran, and some hawks within the Republican Party are expressing alarm. According to a Sunday report in The New York Times, many details of the agreement to end the war remain
Mr Xi’s criticism was the most heated part of the summit and caught US officials by surprise.
If anyone still needed proof that the United States is an unreliable military partner, Donald Trump’s dizzying changes of mind about American troop deployments to Europe have gold-plated the evidence. Within just one week, the United States first said it was canceling the
One of the crew will spend a full year in orbit to study the long-term effects of microgravity.
Reported cases in Thailand have risen over the past month, but the number remains below the five-year median.
Survivors say those running the mine – which the government is investigating – are “the worst”.
Toxic gases inside the mine shaft in Shanxi had exceeded safety limits for a long time.
The South Asian nation imports 95 per cent of its oil and gas, much of it from the Middle East.
A Malaysian man has died and about 20 people are feared trapped at the site near Manila, officials say.
It plans to establish a unit dedicated to cyber patrols.
As at May 22, it had recorded 10 travellers arriving from Ebola-affected areas, with all showing no symptoms.
US President Donald Trump has ramped up restrictions on visas used by Indian tech workers.
US top diplomat Marco Rubio said progress had been made on an outline that could help resolve the situation around the Strait of Hormuz
All suspects have been remanded for three days to assist in investigations.
All the victims were passengers of the ambulance.
Investigators found that the network operated through sophisticated and organised methods.
May 24 - A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest major attack claimed by separatist militants.
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to get in touch with Facebook on the matter.
An eight villager who managed to escape informed local leaders and the authorities about the others.
Officials say the train had been transporting military personnel home for Eid when it was attacked by armed separatists.
The blast at the Liushenyu shaft in Shanxi province on Friday was the country's worst mining disaster in nearly two decades, with 247 workers underground at the time.
BEIJING, May 24 - The death toll has risen to three with 17 missing following flooding in the Chongqing municipality of southwestern China, China's state-run Xinhua reported.
The affected district was hit with sudden extreme rainfall overnight between May 23 and 24.
The team defeated Kuching City FC 2-0 in the final to secure their fourth straight Malaysia Cup title.
The cause of the fire at the store in Hengyang is under investigation.
TAIPEI, May 24 - The Taiwanese and Chinese coast guards were engaged in a tense standoff for the second day near the strategically located Pratas islands at the top of the South China Sea, Taiwan's Coast Guard said on Sunday.
Taiwan’s coast guard said on May 23 it had spotted a Chinese coast guard ship heading to the Pratas.
An explosive-laden car hit one of the train carriages that resulted in a big blast, an official said.
It comes a week after a man was killed by a shark while spearfishing in Western Australia.
CANBERRA, May 24 - A 39-year-old man has died after being attacked by a shark at the Great Barrier Reef on Sunday, police said, the second fatal shark attack in Australia this month.
Temperatures in several cities have hovered well above 45 deg C..