There's currently a huge online battle between Southeast Asian users and South Korean netizens, with racial comments coming from both camps. And it all started from a K-pop concert in Malaysia.
BEIJING, Feb 13 - A Chinese odd jobs mobile app has cancelled a service that let users hire proxies to bow to their elderly relatives during Lunar New Year family visits, sparking scrutiny of China's \"hire-anyone-for-anything\" service sector.
The leadership tenure of Mr Ogawa will run until the end of March 2027.
Kazakhstan is emerging as a regional hub for space, sharing technology, expertise, and talent, launching the Di’er-5 nanosatellite with China, and preparing to launch the Soyuz-5/Sunkar rocket.
Just months after skipping the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia in 2025, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a brief yet important visit to the Southeast Asian nation from February 7-8. Describing the India-Malaysia relationship as
There aren’t many movies merrily described by their writer/director as the “most naughty, feral, fucking crazy ensemble film about a group of kids in remission who go to a summer camp and all they want to do is takes loads of drugs and have a fun time.” But then there aren’t
Division leaders reportedly gather to support party deputy president Hamzah Zainudin.
ANKARA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Turkey detained 16 people and seized assets worth about 300 million lira ($6.9 million) on Friday in an investigation into alleged money laundering linked to content shared on the OnlyFans platform, prosecutors said. The probe, led by a department
Portugal is the latest European country to approve social media bans for children.
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The movement of between 6,000 and 7,000 detainees to Iraqi government control, underway for weeks, could be complete as soon as Friday.
New works from name auteurs including “Tropical Malady” helmer Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Romania’s Corneliu Porumboiu, and Mexico’s Tatiana Huenzo are among the 14-title first batch of features selected to benefit from the newly launched Fondazione Prada Film Fund. The Prada
The new steps approved by Israel’s security cabinet for the West Bank are counterproductive and incompatible with international law. They risk undermining ongoing international efforts aimed at stabilization and the advancement of peaceful efforts in the region. The EU has a
No casualties have been reported so far and official investigations are ongoing.
Kathy Ruemmler will resign this summer as email releases show her close ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom she named “Uncle Jeffrey”.
A Penang-based street artist says his work has been "reproduced" as part of a livery on an aircraft
Some analysts have said Pheu Thai's election losses marked the end of the long-standing Shinawatra dynasty - but it may end up as part of the ruling coalition.
A Bloomberg report claimed that Malaysia's Anti-Corruption Commission chief Azam Baki held 17.7 million shares in a financial services company worth about RM800,000 (US$205,000), above the RM100,000 limit allowed for public servants. Azam had reportedly called the report
Tarique Rahman's rise marks a remarkable turnaround for a man who only returned to Bangladesh in December 2025 after 17 years in exile in Britain.
DHAKA, Feb 13 - Bangladesh’s opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday, returning to power after nearly two decades and positioning party leader Tarique Rahman to become prime minister as the country emerges from months of
Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. is sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran, U.S. media outlets reported late on Thursday. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its escort ships will be sent to the Middle East from the Caribbean, the New
Mexican writer-director Fernanda Tovar's feature debut, about two swimmers whose close relationship is put to the test after a party, world premieres in the Generation 14plus lineup of the Berlinale.
Japan’s Akiba Festival in Niyodogawa features samurai parades and fire rituals, preserving a 200-year-old prayer for protection from disasters.
Visitors gathered in Sapporo as the annual snow festival concluded after eight days of large-scale snow and ice sculptures across the city.
Also in this newsletter: our correspondent Shona Murray reports from Kyiv as continued bombardment of energy sites leaves civilians needing urgent aid; and why the top adviser of the European Court of Justice has taken issue with an EU payment to Hungary.
What are the pros and cons of the EU-Mercosur trade deal? Which EU leader would you choose for a Valentines dinner date? The questions we answer on this episode of "Brussels, my love?' the podcast.
The French screen legend on her 50-year relationship with the Berlinale, how German stage directors shaped her craft and why the festival has always celebrated the side of her that the world rarely sees.
The Spring 2026 edition of the EUDIS Defence Hackathon will take place simultaneously across eight locations in the European Union and Norway from 26-28 March 2026, bringing together regional innovation ecosystems to address key European defence and security challenges. The
Director Grant Gee shifted his focus from rockers to a jazzman, and Berlin took notice. Gee is noted as a documentarian covering music acts; his 1998 doc “Meeting People Is Easy,” for which he followed Radiohead on a world tour, is a landmark, followed up with the definitive
Austria’s Vienna Opera Ball returned to the Vienna State Opera in glittering style, bringing together politics, business and culture as around 5,500 guests gathered in Vienna for one of Austria’s most prestigious charity evenings.
Events are popping up across the city, mainly at sports facilities and coffee shops.
With slogans like "No Alcohol, No Regrets", the message from the Wine Paris trade show in Paris is crystal clear, alcohol-free wine is moving up from being a back shelf, niche curiosity to a mainstream choice.
The cost Google is weighing extends well beyond running map servers.
Residents said the victim, Wafa Awad, was shot on the street as she left her home, adding that she was not the intended target of the shooting. Awad is the sixth person killed in 24 hours in Arab society
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has been elected to serve a two-year term on the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council.
Rising costs, shifting priorities and a cautious outlook for long-haul travel are reshaping who visits Europe in 2026.
Choice could prove difficult for Thames Water, which is trying to push through a water recycling scheme nearby The first designated bathing water area on the River Thames in London has been shortlisted as one of 13 new monitored swimming areas across the country. The Thames at
Scientists at HKUST have unveiled a major leap forward in calcium-ion battery technology, potentially opening the door to safer, more sustainable energy storage for everything from renewable power grids to electric vehicles. By designing a novel quasi-solid-state electrolyte
A new ‘Cable Security Toolbox’ and projects worth €347 million have been adopted by the European Commission, with the aim of improving the security of submarine data cables. Submarine data cables carry almost all internet traffic between continents. As risks to these cables
Three pupils in Johor have recovered, while the remaining four are still receiving treatment
While Taiwan has just one official selection in the 2026 Berlinale lineup — Zhuang Rong Zuo’s short “Tutti” in the Generation Kplus strand — the island nation sports a significant presence at the European Film Market with a diverse slate. The Taiwan Creative Content Agency
Japan is mounting its strongest presence at the Berlin Film Festival in years, with seven films spanning competition, Forum, Panorama and Classics sections. It’s a range that mirrors the country’s record-breaking theatrical year in 2025 and signals what producers describe as a
Despite its setting in 1870s Wisconsin, Dara Van Dusen’s feature debut, “A Prayer for the Dying,” is an eerily timely story touching on deadly epidemics and wildfires. The film bows in Berlin’s Perspectives section. “I’ve been working on this film for over a decade and it’s
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 - Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has lost 85% of the sight in his right eye, his lawyer told the Supreme Court, an ordeal that adds to legal and political challenges the leader is already battling.
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Gabe Klinger is celebrating two very different homecomings with the Berlinale world premiere of his sophomore fiction feature, “Isabel.” The film marks his first work in his home country of Brazil, a decade after breaking out with the Anton Yelchin-starring drama “Porto,” while
If Pheu Thai declines, Bhumjaithai will ask Klatham, another conservative party, to join the bloc.