TOKYO, Sept 17 - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to retain key ministers in a cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, while looking to shore up political support to push through her flagship spending plans amid jittery financial markets.
The reshuffled Cabinet will enter Parliament debate over key fiscal issues such as sales tax cuts.
North Korea has legally enshrined its status as a nuclear weapons state.
Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison for foreign collusion and seditious publication.
The plan will focus on those who move from one visa class to another, students and temporary workers.
The BBC goes inside a fortified storage facility to view luxury goods seized by police that are now up for auction.
A firefighter tells the BBC that rescuers had said many doors near the unit were locked, obstructing their route to the babies.
The chance of a “very strong” El Nino from next month to December is forecast to be 98 per cent now. CNA’s Insight looks at how living costs could rise and how ready the region is for the disruptions ahead.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim can buy time if he can resist his deputy’s push for an immediate general election. But he still needs a solution, says Asian studies professor James Chin.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim can buy time if he can resist his deputy’s push for an immediate general election. But he still needs a solution, says Asian studies professor James Chin.
The US and China are in a stand-off rather than a state of agreement, says Alan Beattie for the Financial Times.
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 - The race for AI supremacy is set to hang over next week's meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington.
The move was taken “in consideration of the bilateral friendly relations” between Myanmar and the US.
Both countries said they had summoned each other’s charge d’affaires.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years as inflation continues to dog the economy, largely driven by soaring gas and fuel oil prices while the war in Iran drags on. The central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee voted
BOGOTA, Sept 16 - The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries which have failed to demonstrably combat illegal drug trafficking for the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a statement on Wednesday, adding he may consider
PARIS, Sept 15 - France has been urging the EU to lift sanctions on Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov after coming under what it says is pressure from Azerbaijan as Baku holds two French nationals, three European diplomats familiar with the matter said.
A man's confession to abducting UK toddler Cheryl Grimmer in Australia was previously thrown out.
The combined toll from the deadly glacial mountain collapse on the Nepal-China border from both nations now stands at 1,446 people dead and at least 6,669 missing.
The owner of the acclaimed establishment avoids jail but is made to pay 15 million won (£8,144; $10,965).
He also announced several improvements to the Budi Diesel initiative.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 - Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday he would invite Myanmar's junta chief-turned-President Min Aung Hlaing for an official visit in return for his government accepting the return of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees.
"We urge all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz at an early date", said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
He says diplomatic move is aimed at finding solution to issue many Malaysians are concerned about.
"I invited him because I want to tell him that we can be friends and trade. We can accept Myanmar, but they must accept (its refugees) back," Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.
Northern Metropolis flats will offer higher living standards, John Lee vows in city’s first five-year plan.
Details about how a SK Hynix-Intel deal might be structured are being reported for the first time.
MOSCOW, Sept 16 - Russia believes there is still time to prevent an arms race in space by drawing up a legally-binding international treaty to outlaw the deployment of offensive weapons there and called on the United States and other nations to set aside their scepticism about
About 5,200 people remain missing, including 636 foreigners, after the disaster.
He is due to be tried for crimes against humanity over thousands of deaths linked to his war on drugs.
For more than five years, Myanmar’s military has treated the sky as its safest battlefield. Ground troops lost bases, towns and strategic roads to resistance forces, but aircraft could fly over those losses, bomb the other side and return to heavily guarded airfields. That
The amount of money involved is up 19.8 per cent from January to June 2025, according to the data.
South Korea's delegation slams the wooden containers housing its athletes at the Asian Games in Nagoya city.
Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni urged people to stop using fire to clear land during an extended drought.
PM Anwar says public concern over spike in bills needed quick attention.
The medication will not become available immediately, as it must first receive regulatory approval.
THE HAGUE, Sept 16 - Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte appeared in public for the first time on Wednesday since being transferred to the International Criminal Court 18 months ago to face murder charges related to his war on drugs.
Judges heard arguments about his health and ability to stand trial.
The US and China are the two major driving forces of frontier AI development.
Four years in the making, the Pinglu Canal cuts the journey to the sea for goods from southwestern China by more than 560km, generating annual transport savings of more than five billion yuan (US$745 million), according to state news agency Xinhua.
Analysts say the appointment of Suahasil Nazara signals that President Prabowo Subianto wants to achieve ambitious economic growth targets in a more careful and prudent way, adding that the new minister will have to balance this goal with fiscal discipline.
Major chains are turning to AI to develop products with unexpected flavours.
The murders came to light in 1999 when eight dismembered bodies were discovered in plastic barrels.
An RCI report urged banning politicians from Tabung Haji’s board to prevent future losses.
The Claude large-language model would set up in a new digital park expected to open in 2027.