TAIPEI, Feb 6 - U.S.-based Kratos Defense and Taiwan's military have successfully tested a new jet-powered attack drone, a move aimed at rapidly boosting the island's ability to field \"large numbers\" of low-cost drone amid a rising Chinese threat.
Common issues included inaccurate measuring instruments, unapproved glasses and spillage during pouring.
HONG KONG, Feb 6 - Hong Kong media tycoon and democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai will be sentenced on February 9, the city's judiciary said on Friday, in a closely watched national security trial that has drawn international criticism including from the U.S. and Britain.
Among the most popular prosperity plants is the Lucky Bamboo.
It is rare for US presidents to publicly back candidates in foreign elections.
David Seymour said colonisation had been a net positive for the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Doctors blame changing lifestyles, unhealthy diets and sedentary habits for the surge.
It is a big issue for her ahead of the election on Feb 8 that will make or break her govt.
Money generated through the hike will be used to maintain the temple’s cultural properties and gardens.
The LDP has pledged to “comprehensively strengthen” the country’s intelligence services.
A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.
Thailand is holding a general election on Feb 8 in a three-way contest.
Polls show the electoral contest remains a three-way tussle among Bhumjaithai, the People's Party and Pheu Thai.
BANGKOK, Feb 6 - When Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved parliament on Dec. 12, he did so hoping a surge of nationalism fuelled by last year's deadly border clashes with Cambodia would help him consolidate power in a general election.
Thailand has seen five prime ministers brought down in the past two decades.
More than 90 eligible names have been submitted as potential candidates for prime minister.
SYDNEY, Feb 6 - New Zealand must continue to evolve in a way that empowers its Indigenous Maori while preserving national unity, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said, as the country on Friday marked the anniversary of the signing of its founding document.
The country votes again this weekend after three years of political turmoil.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition is likely to win big in Japan’s lower house election on February 8. Hopefully, Washington recognizes what it has with Takaichi. Among major US allies, Japan is the only one that is taking its defense seriously and not cozying
China is paradoxical. Two incredibly different narratives can be correct at the same time: its economy is slowing sharply, and its exporters are becoming an even bigger competitive force. But this contradiction is not really a contradiction. A development model that helped turn
Thailand’s Feb 8 snap election is shaping up as a three-way contest, with voters weighing stability against reform and political legacy against change.
After almost a year of fear, policy uncertainty and lost orders, India’s exporters tell CNA the latest US tariff cut offers relief - but not clarity.
Key US strategy documents indicate that Southeast Asia is not high on the list of priorities, but the region cannot disengage, says Kevin Chen from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
Many made-in-Malaysia CNY tunes are jaunty, with lyrics in a mix of Mandarin, Chinese dialects, English and even Malay.
Pakistan has said it will boycott its match with India scheduled in Colombo on Feb 15.
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. In the early 1990s, President Lech Wałęsa envisioned Poland becoming a “second Japan” – an advanced economy with cutting-edge technology. Today, Polish observers note with irony that Japan may
A CORUNA, Spain, Feb 5 - Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment of the technology in warfare, but military heavyweights China and the U.S. opted out.
Feb 5 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he retained the right to \"militarily secure\" a joint US-UK airbase in the Chagos Archipelago following \"productive\" discussions with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Mr Trump added in his Truth Social post that they will meet on March 19 at the White House.
Feb 5 - U.S President Donald Trump on Thursday said Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had his \"total endorsement\" ahead of a legislative election in the east Asian country on Sunday, adding that they would meet March 19 at the White House.
QUETTA, Feb 5 - Pakistan's military said on Thursday it had concluded a week-long operation against separatists in Balochistan who stormed more than a dozen locations, taking hostages, setting off explosives and waging gun battles with security forces.
China has been sending warplanes and warships into the skies and waters around the island daily.
This is part of New Delhi’s plan to grow its space economy into a US$44b industry by 2033, from the current valuation of around US$8.4b.
Feb 5 - At least 16 people were killed and more were feared trapped after an explosion at an unauthorised coal mine in India's northeastern state of Meghalaya, an official said, the latest in a series of similar incidents in the region in recent years.
The blast was at a "rat-hole" mine, where tunnels are just big enough for workers to get through.
Residents and business owners documented red spray-painted messages at more than 40 locations.
The operation targeted the illegal sale of cigarettes in central Hat Yai.
CCTV footage of the incident shows the small lift engulfed in flames for a split second.
Malaysia's health ministry detected the TB cluster in the area on Jan 25.
The two issues have previously emerged as key choke points in China-US relations.
The Union Budget 2026-27 has allocated 200 billion rupees (US$2.2 billion) to the Research, Development and Innovation fund, signaling a possible renewed commitment to scientific development. However, only 30 billion rupees ($331 million) of the previous budget’s allocation has
BAKU, Feb 5 - An Azerbaijani military court issued long prison sentences on Thursday to 13 former officials of Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic Armenians maintained an unrecognised breakaway statelet for three decades until Baku restored military control in 2023.
MOSCOW, Feb 5 - Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that it had expelled a German diplomat in response to what it said was Berlin's unfounded expulsion of a Russian diplomat accused of espionage in January.
KYIV, Feb 5 - Ukraine and Russia concluded a second day of U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday to end Europe's most destructive conflict since World War Two, agreeing to a major prisoner swap, the first such exchange in five months, officials said.
KYIV, Feb 5 - Starlink internet terminals used by the Russian military on the battlefield in Ukraine have been deactivated, Ukraine said on Thursday, in what one official described as a \"disaster\" for Moscow that had disrupted its assault operations in many areas.
LONDON, Feb 5 - The captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker off Britain's east coast last year was jailed for six years on Thursday for causing the death of a crew member through gross negligence.
Student unions at Hong Kong universities were once hotbeds of political activism in 2019.