HANOI, Dec 10 - Vietnam's parliament adopted reforms to the media and state secrets laws on Wednesday which press freedom advocates say will make it harder for journalists to protect the identities of their sources and increase legal risks for reporting.
Mr Hafiz Akbar leads a 2,500-strong Acehnese network delivering aid and advocating for faster relief.
Over 300 schools in total were closed on Dec 9 following the 7.5-magnitude earthquake on Dec 8.
BEIJING, Dec 10 - Twelve people have been killed in a residential fire in the southern Chinese city of Shantou, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
SYDNEY, Dec 10 - Australian teenagers have taken to social media for the last time to farewell their followers and mourn the loss of the platforms that shaped much of their lives before a world-first ban took effect on Wednesday.
The new law requires tech platforms to ensure that Australians aged under 16 don't hold accounts.
More than 400,000 people have been evacuated in Thailand, with another 100,000 displaced in Cambodia.
Mr Oh expressed regret that the difficulty level of the English section had turned out to be out of line with the purpose of absolute grading.
Thailand has evacuated over 400,000 people, while some 101,000 have been moved from border towns in Cambodia.
China's top court said courts must prioritise the well-being of children in their handling of cases.
This public backlash against private English academies that administered entrance assessments to children below school age.
Some politicians have said that his comments appeared to be directed at the Unification Church.
SEOUL, Dec 10 - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has called for an investigation into the suspected illegal links between a religious group and politicians, Lee's office said on Wednesday.
Her son took his life after being bullied online and seeing posts that fuelled an eating disorder.
The Donald Trump administration’s much-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS) landed last week with an audible thud. The somewhat truncated document is an odd combination of social media-style triumphalism and an effort to lay a strategic veneer on the administration’s often
The 137-member Cambodian sports delegation had attended the Games' opening ceremony a day ago.
Nearly 20,000 people died in the 2011 disaster, when a 9-magnitude tremor struck under the ocean.
"This decision was not made lightly," says the secretary-general of the committee of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia.
Companies that breach the law face fines of up to A$49.5 million.
US has called on both sides to immediately end hostilities.
Policymakers in Indonesia, Denmark, Brazil and other nations are moving to rein in Big Tech.
The incident in Australia comes after the man was jailed for nine days and deported from Singapore for public nuisance.
Fake videos believed to have been created using generative AI are also going viral.
SYDNEY, Dec 10 - The regulator overseeing Australia's world-first teenage social media ban rejected the \"technological exceptionalism\" championed by mostly U.S.-based platforms and said a groundswell of American parents wanted similar measures.
The volcano has been active recently, having previously erupted on Nov 19 and Dec 5.
Reproducing giant pandas is considered one of the greatest challenges in wildlife conservation.
The helipad could limit future high-rise development and raise noise issues for nearby residents.
A Pentagon review found areas to put the deal on the “strongest possible footing”, a US official said.
SYDNEY, Dec 10 - Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australia was \"very self-critical\" as it looked to address challenges, including skilling its workforce, for the AUKUS nuclear submarine programme, ahead of AUKUS defence ministers meeting in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 - The United States on Tuesday for the first time criticised the actions of Chinese fighter jets that aimed their radars at Japanese military aircraft last week, incidents that Tokyo described as \"dangerous\".
TOKYO/MOSCOW, Dec 9 - Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese defence ministry said late Tuesday, amid rising tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
Although airdrops have continued, the joint search and rescue task force has yet to reach thousands of isolated residents.
X was the last of 10 restricted social media platforms to set out how it will implement Australia’s ban.
Lemon8, a video and photo sharing app powered by TikTok, is currently the most-downloaded free app on Apple’s App Store.
Rishabh Rajput and Sonali Chouksey received congratulatory messages peppered with "jokes and memes".
Each side blames the other for firing the first shot, as shelling resumed across parts of the border, killing at least 10.
Chinese visitors are Japan’s biggest spenders, accounting for a fifth of the nation’s ¥8.1 trillion tourism revenue.
Japan’s new right-wing prime minister Sanae Takaichi is riding high in the polls, but Sohei Kamiya’s new nationalist party, Sanseito, which rose to prominance in the Upper House (House of Councillors) election last July, continues to advance in local elections and is making an
Tokyo has strongly protested the Dec 6 action by the Chinese military aircraft.
Cambodian former premier Hun Sen accused Anutin of using attacks on his country to gain votes in the upcoming elections.
This month, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported that at the Reagan National Defense Forum, US Space Force General Michael Guetlein, head of the Golden Dome program, revealed that the ambitious air and missile defense shield ordered by US President Donald Trump in January will
With crucial state polls preceding Malaysia’s 16th General Election due by early 2028, Perikatan Nasional's path forward hinges on solving Bersatu’s leadership crisis and getting more non-Malay support, say party insiders and analysts.
