China’s population declined for a fourth consecutive year in 2025, extending a downturn that has coincided with weaker economic conditions and falling birth rates. The continued contraction comes as job prospects remain uncertain for many young people and marriage rates stay
Mr Yang Sung Ho was “unfit to be entrusted with heavy duties”, Mr Kim said.
Two of the victims are children, with a 12-year-old boy fighting for his life.
SYDNEY, Jan 20 - Beaches in the north of Sydney remained closed on Tuesday after a shark bit a man in his 20s, the city's third shark attack in two days.
Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring minerals resistant to fire and water, and is commonly found in older buildings and homes including in Malaysia. But it is also known to cause cancer.
Youth retirement homes in China and, more recently, Malaysia, provide insights into the predicaments faced by young people in the two countries, says an academic.
Despite blistering growth numbers, India's future feels uncertain with private investment being persistently low, says Mihir Sharma for Bloomberg Opinion.
Mr Lam will remain the party’s top leader, according to sources, but he is seeking the presidency as well.
Mr Donald Trump’s trade truce with China has given world leaders and CEOs opportunities to boost ties with the country.
ANKARA, Jan 19 - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said on Monday that the Turkish government had no more \"excuses\" to delay a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) now that a landmark integration deal was achieved in neighbouring Syria.
The blast at a restaurant in a commercial neighbourhood killed a Chinese national and six Afghans.
KARACHI, Jan 19 - When smoke began seeping from ducts at the sprawling Gul Plaza shopping complex in Karachi late on Saturday, those inside thought a small fire had broken out in a corner of the mall.
KABUL, Jan 19 - An explosion tore through a hotel in a heavily guarded part of central Kabul on Monday, killing seven people and injuring several others, authorities in the Afghan capital said.
Prabowo's nephew Thomas Djiwandono, currently a deputy finance minister, is one of three nominees whose names have been submitted to parliament, presidential spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi told reporters.
The dog is believed to have had its head stuck inside a tyre rim while chasing rats or sniffing around.
The numbers are in, and they paint a picture that defies the conventional wisdom of Washington’s trade hawks. In 2025, China’s trade surplus surged to a record high of US$1.2 trillion. In December alone, the surplus reached $114 billion, driven by a higher-than-expected 6.6%
The nation's GDP growth of 5 per cent for 2025 meets its official target but this is expected to slow in 2026.
No other foreign nation maintains a larger military presence in Taiwan than Singapore. Approximately 3,000 Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) personnel are rotationally stationed on the island each year under Project Starlight, a bilateral defense agreement signed in 1975 between the
KABUL, Jan 19 - Several people were killed or injured in a blast at a hotel in a heavily guarded part of central Kabul on Monday, officials said.
Between Jan 1 and 18, 440 Indonesians came to the embassy in Phnom Penh, said the ambassador.
Critics say there is nothing to celebrate, given the country's worsening human rights record.
Asia should pay close attention to what markets are signaling on the Greenland crisis. Distance offers no protection in a global system where trade, capital and confidence remain tightly interlinked. Moves this week across asset classes show investors are treating this episode
The Philippine President faces an impeachment complaint over Rodrigo Duterte’s ICC arrest, as well as alleged corruption.
In a wide-ranging speech as he opened the fifth session of the 15th Parliament, the king alluded to topics that have generated controversy in recent months and slammed corruption in the military and public service.
LONDON, Jan 19 - BHP was on Monday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, in a London lawsuit potentially worth tens of billions of pounds.
Hundreds of foreign nationals have left suspected scam compounds across Cambodia this month amid a crackdown following the arrest of accused scam boss Chen Zhi.
MOSCOW, Jan 19 - The Kremlin said on Monday that it was hard to disagree with experts who said that U.S. President Donald Trump would go down in the history of the United States and the world if he took control of Greenland.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed umbrella group dominated by armed Syrian Kurds from the YPG and linked to the PKK which Turkey designates a terrorist organization, rapidly collapsed over the weekend due to the coordinated defection of their Arab tribal junior
TikTok will partner with fact-checking organisations to validate political claims.
TOKYO, Jan 19 - Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she will dissolve parliament Friday and call a national election to seek voter backing for increased spending and a new security strategy expected to accelerate Japan's defence build up.
Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century giant of political philosophy, argued that every great power passes through a natural civilizational cycle lasting five generations—roughly 125 years—before decline becomes unmistakable. If we place the United States within this framework, its
Her Cabinet is riding high in the polls despite her party’s flagging popularity.
Delegates will also have to stay in designated accommodation as part of tighter security for the event.
HANOI, Jan 19 - Delegates at Vietnam's Communist Party congress that started on Monday were given Samsung tablet computers without an internet connection, had no access to the mobile phone network and will have to stay in designated accommodation, two people briefed on the
When Donald Trump announced that beginning February 1, 2026, eight of America’s closest allies would face a blanket 10% tariff on all goods entering the United States, the shock was not merely economic. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the
The woman allegedly stabbed a man in his 40s multiple times with a knife.
The fire started late on Jan 17 in Gul Plaza, which houses 1,200 shops.
KARACHI, Jan 19 - Pakistani firefighters began searching the smouldering remains of a sprawling Karachi shopping mall on Monday for more than 60 people still missing after a massive fire that killed at least 14 people.
Bersatu said it will only consider the proposal once full details are provided, while PAS said the collaboration “will only confuse the people” if UMNO continues to support the Pakatan Harapan-led government.
In an earlier incident in December 2025, the woman allegedly threatened passengers on a public bus with a knife before she was restrained and removed from the bus.
ASTANA, Jan 19 - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will join the \"Board of Peace\" proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump after accepting an invitation to do so and wants to contribute to bringing about a stable Middle East peace, his spokesperson said on Monday.
MOSCOW, Jan 19 - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has been invited to join the Gaza \"Board of Peace\" proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Tokayev has agreed, the Tengri news outlet on Monday quoted the Kazakh president's press secretary as saying.
Beijing has been trying hard to encourage more young people to marry and have children.
Jan 19 - Australia's Perseus Mining said on Monday that a second employee of a contractor firm passed away in a hospital, days after an accident near the gold producer's Bagoe mine in Cote d'Ivoire.
Sanae Takaichi, who took office last October, hopes the vote will give her a stronger mandate.
Sanae Takaichi is banking on her high poll numbers to lead the unpopular ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to victory.
Some 983,000 individuals were disciplined in 2025, up more than 10 per cent from a year earlier, according to China’s top anti-graft watchdog.
The US-educated Thomas Djiwandono will soon face a fit-and-proper test by Parliament for the new job.
JAKARTA, Jan 19 - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has nominated his nephew to join the central bank's board of governors, two sources told Reuters, amid growing concern about its independence as the government seeks more support for ambitious economic targets.