In April 2026, Gwadar Port processed around 11,000 standard shipping containers. For context, the same port handled roughly 8,300 containers throughout 2025. This is not a record broken by a whisker. It is a record shattered and behind it lies a story about geography, patience
Police arrested 321 foreigners, mainly from Vietnam, in last week's raid.
The Yindjibarndi people had sought A$1.8bn compensation for cultural damage and economic loss.
MANILA, May 12 - Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has again been impeached by the lower house, a little over a year after an earlier impeachment against her was voided on constitutional grounds.
BEIJING, May 12 - China on Tuesday ramped up its rhetoric against Paraguay President Santiago Pena's trip last week to Taiwan, saying he and his colleagues were \"pawns to separatist forces\" and had \"ulterior motives\" for sticking with Taipei.
South Korea's appeals court extended former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min's penalty to nine years in prison on charges including carrying out key insurrection-related duties, perjury and abuse of power.
None of the passengers have shown hantavirus symptoms.
MANILA, May 12 - The top enforcer of former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday to not hand him over to the International Criminal Court, but said he was ready to face justice at home.
He is believed to have died after falling.
Phura Gyaljen Sherpa, 21, died after slipping on the snow and falling into a crevasse near Camp III.
The senator is a co-accused in cases that former president Rodrigo Duterte faces in The Hague.
They are usually found from mid-May to early June, but have been spotted as early as late April in 2026.
There are a multitude of reasons why the London Metal Exchange should approve China’s Tsingshan Holding Group’s request to register aluminum produced in Indonesia. Not because markets owe Jakarta a favor, nor because China’s industrial champions deserve another victory lap, but
SYDNEY, May 12 - An Australian court on Tuesday ordered miner Fortescue to pay A$150 million ($108 million) in compensation to an Indigenous group for a cultural loss caused by iron ore mining on their land without their permission.
Two Malaysian men and a woman are assisting with the probe into the shooting of a 27-year-old man outside an entertainment centre in Skudai on May 9.
Jakarta has been on alert as cases of the rodent-borne disease surface in Asia.
North Korea’s capital is experiencing a surge in passenger cars, creating traffic jams for the first time.
It scares wild animals away by emitting different sounds, along with shining a bright LED light.
There are calls to investigate the 16 March airstrike - which the UN says likely killed more - as a war crime.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, May 12 - Seven people, including two police officers and five civilians, were killed and dozens wounded in a blast at a market in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, a senior police officer said, the second deadly attack in the region in four days.
Dozens more were wounded in the blast at the crowded Naurang Bazar market.
Singapore also calls the Strait of Malacca model a guide for global waterway disputes.
Indonesia’s Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said on Monday (May 11) that no agreement has been reached on the hub’s location but it hopes to partner with Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines to advance the proposal.
China has learnt that playing to the US president’s ego may not be worth the extra effort.
Any rapport between the leaders may do little to diminish the tech competition.
He says he may meet Norwegian defence minister in Singapore to convey message.
Himanta Biswa Sarma is seen as one of the architects of BJP's rapid growth in India's northeast.
Calbee is one of many in Japan's corporate landscape suffering from the impact of the Iran war.
Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking. The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting US president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a
The latest warning from Washington that China could face visa restrictions over deportation cooperation points to a broader pattern: migration policy is increasingly being pulled into the orbit of geopolitical rivalry. While US officials frame the issue as a matter of
The country was expected to spend about 10 times more on fuel subsidies than before the conflict.
During the incident, three passengers complained of throat irritation.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said such cases were 'creating uncertainty in business confidence'.
The government is cracking down, but free speech advocates say it is the wrong approach.
Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, a former national police chief, has sought refuge in the senate.
Prisons will also contribute some raw materials for the kitchens through agricultural activities.
Trump’s world is not rules-based globalization or full Cold War fragmentation — it’s perpetual leverage economics. This week’s summit in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will showcase that reality more clearly than any major diplomatic encounter since Trump returned
The boat was carrying 37 undocumented migrants believed to be from Indonesia.
The US-Israel war on Iran has acted not as a mere diversion but as a brutal accelerator of history, fundamentally rupturing the Middle East’s security architecture and accelerating the very realignment it sought to prevent. In the war’s destructive wake – marked by the
The disaster killed 168 people and displaced thousands, laying bare lapses in construction safety while leaving survivors and families struggling to rebuild their lives and seek answers.
Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his supposed anti-China advocacies.
WASHINGTON/DUBAI, May 12 - Hopes for a peace deal on Iran faded on Tuesday after Donald Trump said a ceasefire with Iran was \"on life support\" as Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal to end the conflict and stuck to a list of demands the U.S. president described as \"garbage\".
WASHINGTON, May 11 - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate calls with his Australian and British counterparts on Monday to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
The disease has been detected in Indonesia in the past two years, with dozens of people infected.
Over 8,000 suspected cases of measles and 10 deaths were recorded in the first three months of 2026.
May 12 - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this week for talks in Beijing certain to feature the issue of democratically-governed Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, although Taipei rejects those claims.
Samsung's labour union has threatened an 18-day strike starting on May 21.
Bear attacks killed 13 people in Japan in 2025, more than twice the previous high.
Around 22.1 per cent of the children examined had blood pressure above normal levels for their age.