Amirudin Shari, a senior leader in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's party, also dismissed concerns that upcoming state elections in Johor and Negeri Sembilan will disrupt the current administration.
With seizures of drug-laced vapes rising, anti-narcotics officials are pushing for a ban on e-cigarettes and arguing that Indonesia remains behind many of its neighbours in regulating them.
Economic interdependence was once expected to guarantee peace. It now fuels resentment, says economics professor Danny Quah from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
World Cup 2026 has shown that the future of football is not in Asia yet, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.
China has added 40 Japanese companies to its export control lists, accusing them of supporting Tokyo’s military buildup, as trade and military tensions between the two countries continue to escalate. China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that 20 Japanese entities had been
June 30 - Russia's Foreign Ministry urged Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday to use diplomacy to resolve their longstanding differences.
The dust has now settled on the ostentatious June summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. But perhaps the biggest takeaway was what was left unsaid. Chinese readouts from the summit conspicuously excluded any mention of
The BBC's Katy Watson explains why troops are training in remote Australia, thousands of kilometres from any major conflicts.
Two people are taken into custody after the incident in the Kahna suburb of Lahore.
SAO PAULO, June 30 - The South American trade bloc Mercosur launched negotiations with Japan on Tuesday for an economic partnership agreement as it seeks to expand trade ties following a recent deal with the European Union.
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. On June 15, Japanese opposition lawmaker Chikage Koga said during a committee meeting in the upper house that children from economically disadvantaged families enlist in the Self-Defense Forces
A published report detailing how President Donald Trump’s eldest sons stand to profit from a tungsten mining deal negotiated by their billionaire father has sparked outraged calls for accountability, with Democratic lawmakers characterizing the taxpayer-funded project as yet
Two people have been been taken into custody over the incident.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. In the 6-3 decision, a majority of the justices upheld the country’s long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on
BEIJING, June 30 - Li Changguan has been appointed party chief of China's civil affairs ministry, the ministry's website showed on Tuesday.
BAKU, June 30 - A legal framework could be drawn up this year on regional cooperation to monitor and seek to adapt to falling water levels in the Caspian Sea, which is shrinking at an accelerated pace, a senior Azerbaijani water official told Reuters.
The hospital used leftover or patient-brought psychotropic drugs.
Both sides agreed to establish a new trade and investment consultation mechanism.
Indonesia is one of the few countries in Southeast Asia where all 104 World Cup matches are available on free-to-air TV.
She will visit India from July 1 for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit.
The jet aborted its descent minutes before it was due to land.
19 defendants on trial since April over allegations of trafficking at least 34 babies between 2023 and 2025.
AirAsia's Indonesian subsidiary Indonesia AirAsia previously provided a daily Singapore-Jakarta service, but this will be halted from July.
DOHA, June 30 - Top U.S. envoys were due to arrive in Qatar on Tuesday, but uncertainty over the timing and content of any diplomatic talks raised questions over efforts to bring a lasting halt to the Iran war and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The public is advised to stay at least 20m away from the seal and keep dogs much farther back.
The Asia-Pacific is experiencing an unprecedented transformation in ocean governance. Governments across the region are expanding marine protected areas, investing in blue carbon initiatives, deploying digital fisheries monitoring systems and positioning the ocean as a
June 30 - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has opened national security investigations into whether five drugmakers including Merck and AbbVie have been involved in clinical trials conducted in China that helped fuel the communist country's military capability.
ALMATY/ASTANA, June 30 - Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has promised a fundamental reshaping of the Central Asian nation under a new constitution that takes effect on Wednesday.
The 19 defendants are accused of selling at least 34 babies between 2022 and 2025, some of whom were taken to Singapore and sold for thousands of dollars for each child.
There were no injuries reported among the estimated 200 passengers and crew members on board the train.
NEW DELHI, June 30 - Leaders of India's youth Cockroach Janta Party neared two weeks of sit-in protests on Tuesday, backed by a well-known activist who has started a hunger strike in support of their demand for the resignation of the education minister.
5 people have died due to bear attacks since April, according to the environment ministry.
Featuring four female K-pop stars who later transform into old men behind bars, the ad was meant to convey the message that drugs will ruin lives “no matter how pretty they're packaged”.
In a seminal article, entitled “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” Stephen Stedman writes that “peacemaking is a risky business.” The greatest source of risk “comes from spoilers—leaders and parties who believe that peace emerging from negotiations threatens their power,
The case against Gojek founder Nadiem Makarim relates to a laptop deal made during his term as Indonesia's education minister.
The police said the victim died from slash wounds to the head.
America’s biggest educational exchange program is on its last legs. President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget recently proposed to cut the Fulbright Program by nearly 80%. The cut comes during the 80th year of the program, which was founded at the behest of its namesake,
ANKARA, June 30 - NATO is adjusting to a shifting security landscape and the United States is not seeking to leave the alliance, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara next week.
Meituan says the performance of its new large language model, LongCat-2.0, is comparable to Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, which was released in February.
The case has renewed calls to make exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China a criminal offence under Taiwanese law.
Over 1.1 million minimum wage earners in Manila will receive pay hike of 85 pesos (S$1.79) a day.
Former education minister Nadiem Makarim guilty of corruption tied to the procurement of Chromebooks for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in around US$120 million in state losses.
Prosecutors said the former education minister benefited from transactions involving Gojek’s parent company and Google.
Thailand’s lese-majeste law shields the king and his family from criticism.
Local media reported that the collapse occurred after days of heavy rain.
The first section of the bullet train is expected to run in 2027 between the cities of Surat and Vapi.
The worker had also been subjected to workplace bullying and unpaid wages.