MANILA, Jan 15 - The Philippines and Japan signed two defence pacts on Thursday, including a deal allowing their forces to exchange supplies and services, with both countries seeking to strengthen security cooperation in response to rising regional tensions.
TAIPEI, Jan 15 - More U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are in the pipeline with four deals yet to be notified to Congress, a senior Taiwanese defence official said on Thursday, following the announcement of an $11 billion package last month, the largest ever for the island.
KYIV, Jan 15 - International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva arrived in Kyiv early on Thursday for high-level talks, two sources familiar with the matter said, as Ukraine prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24.
BEIJING, Jan 15 - China is willing to deepen cooperation with Canada while eliminating \"interference\", Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Canadian counterpart at a meeting in Beijing on Thursday.
The rupture adds to Nepal’s turbulent political environment.
One of them is in critical condition and unconscious.
US President Donald Trump’s renewed campaign to acquire Greenland—complete with threats of military force, tariffs against Denmark, and now reports of cash payments to Greenlanders—represents yet another chapter in America’s inability to distinguish between genuine national
The BBC arrived at a grim scene in the evening, with rescuers still pulling bodies out of the mangled train.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index hit another all-time high on Wednesday, up 6.5% since the start of the year and up 76.5% from the April 2025 low that followed US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement. So why, then, has one of America’s most highly
Academic and author Randa Abdel-Fattah said she accepted the apology.
It comes a day after a crane accident in the north-east of the country caused the deaths of 32 train passengers.
Around half a million children live in the camps housing Rohingya refugees.
The strike had paralysed roughly 93 per cent of the capital’s bus fleet.
The bomb remains active and is in a corroded condition.
"I saw bodies piled up inside a carriage with metal wreckage all over when I looked through the window," says a woman who aided rescue efforts.
Conservative opposition lawmakers say the Bill also threatens religious freedom.
As trade and diplomatic tensions flare between China and the US and both sides vie for tech supremacy.
She hopes to build on increased support for a new leader who has promised to tackle key issues.
TOKYO, Jan 14 - Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve parliament's lower house next week, triggering a national election to decide all 465 seats in her first major election test since taking office in October.
The video game puts players in the shoes of people forced to work as online scammers.
It said the 3 labs made a third of all the methamphetamine seized in the country last year.
Foreign leaders have another reason to visit Beijing in 2026: rare earths.
The democracy campaigner has spent 20 years in total in detention, five of them since being overthrown by a coup.
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 - The Trump administration was accused on Wednesday of dragging its feet in delivering congressionally agreed benefits to Pacific island nations being courted by China to try to woo them away from the U.S. strategic orbit.
China’s trade surplus surged to a record in 2025, even as United States President Donald Trump launched a new round of tariff wars against the country last April. China’s total exports rose 5.5% year-on-year to US$3.77 trillion in 2025, while imports were flat at US$2.58
It has been more than three years since China’s Xi Jinping told Canada’s Justin Trudeau to “create the conditions first” before the two countries could work together constructively during their awkward private exchange at the 2022 G20 summit. Despite occasional diplomatic
The string of recent disasters should not be written off as just routine bad weather, says CNA's Charles Phang.
While Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is popular, the idea of an election is not, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.
Analysts call for tougher punishment for misconduct and parliamentary oversight for large arms purchases following recent scandals in the armed forces.
Taiwan aims to cut tariffs on its exports to the US to 15 per cent from 20 per cent.
When Iran’s ongoing protests began in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on December 28, 2025, the government initially treated them as manageable and temporary. Bazaar merchants have historically been among the most conservative social groups in Iran, deeply embedded in the state’s
Can Malaysia handle more tourists while migrating its immigration system without disruption?
Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, threats to intervene in Iran and the declaration that
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 - Senior Taiwanese officials are traveling to Washington to advance talks on reducing U.S. tariffs on the island's exports and a possible investment deal, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
TBILISI/BAKU, Jan 14 - Azerbaijan has released four Armenian prisoners arrested during wars between the two countries in 2020 and 2023, Armenia said on Wednesday, in a further sign of normalising ties between the long-standing foes.
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 - The U.S. Supreme Court issued three decisions on Wednesday but did not decide the closely watched dispute over the legality of President Donald Trump's global tariffs.
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 - The Trump administration is suspending all visa processing for visitors from 75 countries starting January 21, Fox News reported on Wednesday, citing a memo from the U.S. State Department.
The number of government supported treatment cases grew by 142.6 per cent from 2020 to 2024.
Mark Carney is the first Canadian leader to visit China in eight years.
LONDON, Jan 14 - The captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker off Britain's east coast last year tried to change course to avoid the fatal collision, his lawyer told a London court trial over a crew member's death on Wednesday.
A visit to the country by the Philippines’ Foreign Secretary has caught many observers by surprise.
Correspondent Jonathan Head says the 'devastating' accident is an enormous setback for Thailand's efforts to modernise its infrastructure.
BANGKOK, Jan 14 - Dozens of people were killed on Wednesday after a crane collapsed onto a moving train in northeastern Thailand, in the latest in a series of construction accidents in recent years.