SHANGHAI - Takashi Ito, owner of a restaurant in Shanghai, had been looking forward to China's lifting of a ban on imports of Japanese seafood - only to have his hopes dashed this week amid an increasingly heated diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo.
Governments need to enforce policies to accelerate sustainable aviation fuel production and adoption, says the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines' director general Subhas Menon during an interview with CNA’s Yasmin Jonkers.
NEW DELHI - China ran a disinformation campaign to hurt sales of the French Rafale fighter jet after India used the planes in May for the first time against Chinese weapons deployed by its neighbour Pakistan, a bipartisan U.S. commission said this month in a report that the
Southeast Asia–based scam operations have become a global menace. According to the US Department of the Treasury, online scam syndicates have cost American victims $16.6 billion, including $10 billion in 2024 alone. Alarmed by this trend, both Congress and the Trump
There is no easy fix, Japanese officials and analysts say.
BEIJING/TOKYO - Trade cooperation between China and Japan has been \"severely damaged\", the Chinese commerce ministry said on Thursday, urging the Japanese prime minister to retract her comments on Taiwan or face the consequences.
The petition argued that Aespa’s appearance could damage Japan’s image.
The enhanced procedures follow several cases of motorcyclists slipping through without undergoing passport checks.
Scuffles broke out between young activists and loyalists of Nepal's former ruling party on Nov 19.
BRUSSELS - European foreign ministers said on Thursday that any plan to end the war in Ukraine must include Ukrainians and Europeans after the U.S. floated a framework that would involve Kyiv giving up some of its land and weapons and curbing the size of its army.
BEIJING - Japan's relations with China have plunged to their lowest in years after a dispute triggered by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks this month about Taiwan, the democratically-governed island that China claims as its own territory.
The group stressed that atomic bomb survivors cannot allow nuclear arms to be brought into Japan.
The Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition defended its track record in improving the state’s fortunes as hustings for the Nov 29 election heat up.
BRUSSELS - Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday said the European Union should stop sending money to the Ukrainian government after corruption reports.
More than 20 people were pulled from the water, while more than 10 remain missing.
Centuries of intense rivalry mean their economic embrace can never be taken for granted.
The dog was left behind as his family escaped to higher ground.
He cited graft scandals involving ministers, MPs, former police chief and over 200 police officers.
MANILA – A former Philippine mayor alleged to be a spy for China was convicted Thursday for human trafficking for her role in running a mega-scam center north of Manila. Alice Guo, who last year was dismissed as mayor of Bamban town in Tarlac province, was found guilty and
Between August and November, the United States has held nine multilateral war drills near Guam.
When Indonesia established Badan Pengelola Investasi (BPI) Danantara, it was not merely launching a sovereign wealth fund but constructing a political-economic architecture, one that fuses financial ambition with the logic of power. Danantara sits at the intersection of markets
MANILA - A Philippine trial court has sentenced a former mayor accused of having ties to Chinese criminal syndicates to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking, a government anti-crime agency said on Thursday.
Extremist networks have adapted quickly to the digital habits of young people.
Nearly 200 people have been attacked by bears in Japan in 2025 and 13 have died.
China indicated it would ban all imports of seafood from Japan.
Strangers started offering money, and together raised 50,000 pesos (S$1,100) to save the animal.
More than 43,000 houses were submerged while several major roads remained blocked due to landslides.
Effective Thursday (Nov 20), China is allowing Taiwan residents to obtain single-entry permits on arrival at 100 entry checkpoints, up from 58.
Officials said Ms Takaichi cannot satisfy Beijing's core demand to retract her comment.
Guo had served as mayor of a town north of Manila while pretending to be a Philippine citizen.
Southeast Asia has 50 per cent to 100 per cent of coal-fired power capacity locked in purchase agreements with about nine to 18 years left on average, according to data from a coalition pushing for a phase-out of the fossil fuel.
Alice Guo was found guilty of overseeing a Chinese-operated online gambling centre where hundreds of people were forced to run scams or risk torture.
They are trading the turquoise-and-blue uniforms for iron-grey shirts and chocolate-brown trousers.
Authorities uncovered one of the country's biggest scam centres in her small town of Bamban.
More than 553,000 households and businesses are still facing blackouts.
HANOI - The death toll from a new round of torrential rain, flooding and landslides in central Vietnam since the weekend has risen to 16, a government report said on Thursday, with water levels rising further in already inundated towns and villages.
Its last major eruption was in December 2021, when at least 51 people were killed.
SYDNEY - A U.S. congressional committee called on Australia's internet regulator to testify about the country's laws governing the internet, calling her a \"noted zealot for global takedowns\" who \"threatens speech of American citizens.\"
The ship's first officer and an Indonesian crew member were arrested for suspected gross negligence.