Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, 26 October 2025– In a high-profile ceremony on Sunday, the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia formalised an enhanced ceasefire agreement, watched by US President Donald Trump as he arrived for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur. The accord builds on a truce reached after fighting in July between […]

Japan has executed Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter Killer,” for the murder and dismemberment of nine people in 2017. The 34-year-old was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House, with the execution conducted in secrecy, as is standard in Japan, and only confirmed afterward. Shiraishi was convicted in 2020 of killing eight women, including teenagers, […]

VIETNAM | A court in Vietnam has sentenced real estate female tycoon Truong My Lan to death over a fraud case totalling $12.5 billion. State media reported that the trial, which commenced on March 5 and concluded earlier than anticipated, marked a significant outcome of the anti-corruption campaign long championed by the leader of the […]

North Korea has fired what is suspected to be a ballistic missile into sea while the eyes of the rest of the world are focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine. The coast guard said that the missile probably landed in the sea. Vessels in the area were told to stay away from […]

North Korea successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile into the sea this week in the latest weapons demonstration from the rogue nation.  Korean Central News Agency, the country’s state media, reported that the test was the first test flight of the “detached hypersonic gliding warhead” that met important technical requirements, The Associated Press reported. The missile test […]

North Korea launched at least one unidentified “projectile” from its eastern coast, the South Korean military said Tuesday. The Japanese Defense Ministry indicating the launch appeared to be of a ballistic weapon. No further details were immediately available. Earlier this month, the North fired two ballistic missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone — an act […]

Indian foreign minister urges the UK to amend the rule requiring Indians visiting there to quarantine even if they are fully vaccinated.

China is “open” to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus but any investigation must be “free of political interference”, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said Sunday. He blasted what he called efforts by US politicians to “fabricate rumours” about the pathogen’s origins and “stigmatise China”. The United States and Australia have called in […]

South Korea believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is not dead. After days of speculation and rumours of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ill health and rumoured death. A South Korean government official has said Kim Jong Un is not dead. Rumours of the North Korean leader’s death had been fuelled by […]

Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected, were not counted in death tolls, state media announced Friday. The death toll for Wuhan now stands at 3,869 after China added 1,290 to the tally. It came as the number of infections increased retrospectively […]

A Bek Air plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least seven people, aviation authorities in the Central Asian nation said. The plane was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and “lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence” […]

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday its oil output would be back to normal by the end of the month, with half the production lost in weekend attacks on two key facilities already restored. Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who was only appointed to the role earlier this month, said that the world’s top energy […]