CHAKWAL, Pakistan, May 25 - In a cluster of villages in Pakistan's largely rural Chakwal district, more than 100 Shi'ite Muslims have returned from the United Arab Emirates without jobs, luggage or access to the savings they spent years building abroad.
The incident occurred on Sunday (May 24) afternoon during lifeboat maintenance work at a floating storage and offloading vessel off Terengganu state.
Footage posted on social media showed a man in heated debate with two security guards reportedly during a school trip to Singapore.
Iran’s drones may have survived not because US and Israeli strikes failed, but because Iran built a war machine designed from the start to keep fighting after the bombs fell. According to recently disclosed US intelligence assessments, Iran is rapidly rebuilding its military
Celebrities and public figures in Thailand have taken to share their own experiences of sexual abuse.
SYDNEY, May 25 - Australian activists detained by Israel while on a flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza have returned home, with organisers alleging abuse, sexual assault, and beatings, that left some detainees in hospital.
TOKYO, May 25 - Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as the father of Japan's convenience store industry, died of heart failure on May 18, Seven & i Holdings said on Monday. He was 93.
Two workers pinned under the wreckage were found alive after the nine-storey structure gave way, but later died of their injuries.
The was approved as a 9-storey condo-hotel, but a swimming pool was being constructed on the 10th floor.
Typography for his signs is now named after him, ‘Shuetsu-tai’.
Riders are advised to be more cautious before accepting any job offers or side tasks.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 - Three people were killed and one was injured in an accident during lifeboat maintenance work at a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel operated by Malaysian state energy firm Petronas on Sunday, the firm said.
Wildlife attacks during surf events are rare but not unprecedented.
The vision is in line to elevate Johor as a regional sports powerhouse in South-east Asia.
WELLINGTON, May 25 - New Zealand will tighten English language rules for mid-skilled work visa applicants while expanding philanthropy options for investor migrants, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said on Monday.
Oil prices fell to a two-week low on optimism that the US and Iran were moving closer towards a peace deal, even though they remained at odds over key issues.
Indonesia and Malaysia are considering tighter visa and immigration rules to combat criminal networks and scam syndicates that make use of foreigners, but experts caution that there are diplomatic and economic costs to consider.
With accessible travel in Taiwan, tech-enabled caregiving in Hong Kong and digital upskilling in Indonesia, communities in Asia are starting to redefine the ageing experience. These are just some of the initiatives backed by the DBS Foundation.
“The era in which a terrorist group held an entire nation hostage is coming to an end,” Mr Rubio said.
Nearly five years on from the school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams.
An election in Malaysia is due only in 2028 but contenders to PM Anwar Ibrahim's throne are already plotting their way to the top.
China faces a 4 million shortfall in AI workers by 2030 and is looking to Singapore campuses to help fill the gap.
Posting on Telegram, Netanyahu said this would require dismantling Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities and removing enriched nuclear material from its territory.
The Shenzhou-23 mission will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time.
President Donald Trump revealed over the weekend that he is mulling a deal that would end his war with Iran, and some hawks within the Republican Party are expressing alarm. According to a Sunday report in The New York Times, many details of the agreement to end the war remain
The Chinese leader's criticism was the most heated part of the summit and caught US officials by surprise.
If anyone still needed proof that the United States is an unreliable military partner, Donald Trump’s dizzying changes of mind about American troop deployments to Europe have gold-plated the evidence. Within just one week, the United States first said it was canceling the
One of the crew will spend a full year in orbit to study the long-term effects of microgravity.
Reported cases in Thailand have risen over the past month, but the number remains below the five-year median.
Survivors say those running the mine – which the government is investigating – are “the worst”.
Toxic gases inside the mine shaft in Shanxi had exceeded safety limits for a long time.
The South Asian nation imports 95 per cent of its oil and gas, much of it from the Middle East.
A Malaysian man has died and about 20 people are feared trapped at the site near Manila, officials say.
It plans to establish a unit dedicated to cyber patrols.
As at May 22, it had recorded 10 travellers arriving from Ebola-affected areas, with all showing no symptoms.
US President Donald Trump has ramped up restrictions on visas used by Indian tech workers.
US top diplomat Marco Rubio said progress had been made on an outline that could help resolve the situation around the Strait of Hormuz
All suspects have been remanded for three days to assist in investigations.
All the victims were passengers of the ambulance.
Investigators found that the network operated through sophisticated and organised methods.
May 24 - A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest major attack claimed by separatist militants.
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to get in touch with Facebook on the matter.
An eight villager who managed to escape informed local leaders and the authorities about the others.
Officials say the train had been transporting military personnel home for Eid when it was attacked by armed separatists.
