Time ripe for talks between Myanmar junta and ousted government, Malaysia's Anwar says
Separate talks with Myanmar's junta leader and his key rivals have borne fruit, Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar
May 22, 2025Separate talks with Myanmar's junta leader and his key rivals have borne fruit, Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar
May 22, 2025U.S.
May 21, 2025Komatsu should see a nearly 20 billion yen ($140 million) mitigation in the impact of U.S. tariffs on its bottom line after the U.S.-China trade
May 22, 2025Citigroup has launched Citi AI, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for its employees in Hong Kong, the bank said on Thursday.
May 22, 2025China's online video-sharing platform Bilibili said on Wednesday it is offering up to $575 million worth of convertible notes to raise money to develop its content ecosystem.
May 21, 2025Three children were among at least five people killed when a suicide bomber struck an army school bus in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, the
May 21, 2025Major stock indexes and the dollar fell on Wednesday as investors worried about a deteriorating U.S. fiscal outlook and Treasury yields climbed following a
May 21, 2025Russia has announced that its troops have fully reclaimed the Kursk region, nearly nine months after losing chunks of the border territory to a surprise Ukrainian incursion
April 26, 2025Federal judge says Trump administration must ‘maintain custody’ of migrants allegedly sent to South Sudan
May 20, 2025Officials say a suicide car bomber struck a school bus in southwestern Pakistan, killing five people, including three children
May 21, 2025A professor who was jailed after making comments perceived as critical of women officers in the Indian army was ordered released on bail by the country's top court
May 21, 2025Japan’s farm minister resigns over rice gaffe, as stubbornly high prices threaten government’s grip on power
May 21, 2025Pakistan's army chief General Asim Munir is the most powerful man in the country, but his popular support has surged after the worst conflict in decades with arch-
May 21, 2025Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft has acquired Tomtor, the country's largest rare earth metal deposit, a companies registry showed on Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin's
May 21, 2025Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to upgrade their diplomatic ties, China said on Wednesday after hosting an informal meeting between Islamabad
May 21, 2025A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time is already planning his next attempt
May 20, 2025Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, said on Tuesday an artificial intelligence
May 20, 2025Thailand's cabinet has reallocated 157 billion baht ($4.7 billion) of budget spending away from a consumer stimulus scheme to fund projects in the coming months that will help
May 20, 2025Taiwan wants peace and dialogue with China but the government must continue to strengthen the island's defences, President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday
May 20, 2025Xiaomi's founder Lei Jun said on Tuesday that the company has started mass production of its self-developed Xring O1 advanced mobile chip.
May 20, 2025Japan's top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said on Tuesday there was no change to Tokyo's stance of demanding an elimination of U.S. tariffs in bilateral trade
May 20, 2025Moscow is ready to work toward ending the fighting in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday following a two-hour phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump
May 19, 2025The sheriff who oversees the New Orleans jail where 10 men escaped last week says defective locks were a key factor in the jailbreak
May 19, 2025Huawei launched two new laptop models on Monday, the first sold with its own Harmony operating system, in a bid to take on well-established Western Big
May 19, 2025Member states of the World Health Organization on Monday rejected a proposal to invite Taiwan to its annual assembly in Geneva after China voiced opposition.
May 19, 2025Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he was open to reconciling with the Duterte family, one week after allies of his estranged Vice President, Sara Duterte, outperformed
May 19, 2025China's major state banks will cut their deposit rates from Tuesday, three people with knowledge of the matter said, easing pressure on profitability as China reduces lending rates
May 19, 2025The holding company that owns Qatar Airways has reported it earned a $2.15 billion profit in its last fiscal year, its highest-ever profit off the back of record passenger numbers as global aviation bounces back after the coronavirus pandemic
May 19, 2025South Korea's conservative presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo said on Monday he was willing to discuss sharing more of the cost of stationing the U.S. military in the
May 19, 2025The Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates if the economy rebounds from an expected hit from higher U.S. tariffs, the central bank's deputy governor
May 19, 2025Duterte scores landslide win in local elections. But can he be mayor from The Hague?
May 18, 2025Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has hit a record low, with nearly nine out of every 10 voters dissatisfied with the government's response to soaring price of rice,
May 18, 2025Severe storms across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 27 people dead
May 18, 2025Vietnam and the United States held their first direct ministerial-level negotiations on Friday against the backdrop of an impending U.S. tariff of 46% on imports from the Southeast
May 17, 2025House Republicans are in the final rounds of negotiations over a sweeping budget plan that has been significantly influenced by President Donald Trump's priorities
May 17, 2025India’s caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census?
May 16, 2025South Korea's ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Saturday that he is leaving the conservative People Power Party (PPP), according to his Facebook post.
May 16, 2025A man suspected of trafficking two infant orangutans has been arrested in Thailand, according to local authorities. Police conducted the raid as the suspect was about to hand over the infant primates to a customer at a Bangkok gas station.
May 16, 2025Turkey-based Celebi, which provides airport ground handling in India, has launched a legal challenge to New Delhi's decision to overturn its
May 16, 2025Taiwan President Lai Ching-te offered his support and encouragement to the armed forces on Friday ahead of what the government has warned could be a new
May 16, 2025The main Taiwan and U.S. trade representatives met in South Korea for trade negotiations, yielding optimism that further talks would lead to reduced U.S. tariffs on Taiwan exports,
May 16, 2025Global investment banks are raising their forecasts for China's economic growth this year, after Beijing and Washington agreed to a 90-day pause on tariffs, despite uncertainty around Sino-
April 15, 2025Malaysia's economy grew 4.4% in the first quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, slower than the previous quarter, with the central bank
May 16, 2025Hong Kong's economy expanded by 3.1% in the first quarter from a year earlier, the government said on Friday, supported by an increase in exports of goods and services, and a
May 16, 2025A construction magnate and more than a dozen other people have surrendered to police on criminal negligence charges for the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise during a March 28 earthquake
May 16, 2025South Korean police arrest two people accused of blackmailing Tottenham’s Son Heung-min
May 16, 2025U.S. oil producer Chevron Corp and several European companies are in talks with the Trump administration to obtain authorizations to keep their stakes in joint ventures with Venezuela's
May 15, 2025Thai man arrested for alleged smuggling of two baby orangutans
May 16, 2025As Romania heads into a critical presidential runoff on Sunday between two starkly different candidates, many view the final vote as a geopolitical choice between East or West
May 16, 2025President Donald Trump says the United States and Iran have “sort of” agreed to terms on a nuclear deal
May 15, 2025On Cristian Giacobone's farm in the heart of Argentina's Pampas plains, workers in the soy fields have been up since dawn, racing to
May 15, 2025Taiwan cannot rule out that China will hold more military drills to "stir up trouble" around the one year anniversary next week of President Lai Ching-te taking office, a senior
May 15, 2025Officials say Japan’s air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of them crashed minutes after takeoff
May 15, 2025Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will travel to China on Saturday for high-level meetings, just days after a visit by former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to
May 15, 2025China will extend its visa-free policy to nationals of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, putting some of Latin America's largest economies on equal footing with many
May 15, 2025Sri Lanka has restructured nearly $931 million in lines of credit and buyers' credit facility agreements with the Indian government, the island nation's finance
May 15, 2025Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he discussed the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 with Russian President Vladimir Putin
May 15, 2025South Korea's deputy finance minister Choi Ji-young met with Assistant Secretary for International Finance at the U.S.
May 15, 2025Germany and the Philippines have agreed to enhance defence ties and boost joint activities as Manila builds up a range of alliances to strengthen its position in a longstanding
May 15, 2025Where things stand in 5 of the Trump administration’s highest profile immigration cases
May 12, 2025Global shares gained and major Wall Street indexes were mixed on Wednesday as trade tensions eased between the world's two largest
May 14, 2025China on Wednesday paused some non-tariff measures taken against 17 U.S. entities put on its unreliable entity list in April and 28 U.S. entities on its export control list, the
May 14, 2025At 2.09 a.m. on Saturday, Ahmad Subhan, who lives near an air base in the Pakistan military garrison
May 13, 2025Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, downgraded its full-year outlook on Wednesday citing recent appreciation of the Taiwan
May 13, 2025Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make "every effort" for peace and offered the Vatican as a
May 14, 2025India said on Wednesday that it rejects China's move to rename places in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh where the Asian neighbours share a border, adding that the
May 14, 2025Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani will meet U.S.
May 14, 2025Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, on Wednesday said first-quarter profit leapt 91% on continued strong demand for artificial intelligence servers.
May 14, 2025Thailand's monetary policy is accommodative and that would help handle future risks to some extent, the central bank said in a paper released on Wednesday.
May 14, 2025China will put forward new peacekeeping commitments, and support the reform and transformation of the United Nations' peacekeeping efforts, state news agency Xinhua said on
May 13, 2025Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Germany's FlaktGroup for 1.5 billion euros ($1.68 billion) as it looks to meet growing demand for cooling of data centres
May 13, 2025A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang
May 13, 2025Lawyers for the 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her mother to Honduras confirmed that the family is lifting its lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump
May 13, 2025For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer
May 12, 2025Thailand has declared an end to search operation at the site of a partially constructed Bangkok skyscraper that collapsed during a March 28 earthquake and killed scores of
May 13, 2025Families of victims from the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December have filed a criminal complaint against 15 people including South Korean government officials and airline safety
May 13, 2025Wang Yilin, a former chairman of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), was sentenced to 13 years in prison for bribery and fined 3 million yuan ($416,667
May 13, 2025Tariffs, wars and economic worries in powerhouse economies such as Germany and China led the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to cut its
May 13, 2025Pakistan's army said on Tuesday that more than 50 people were killed in last week's military clashes with India which ended in a ceasefire agreed by the nuclear-armed
May 13, 2025A day after China and the U.S. agreed to a 90-day truce in their tariffs stalemate, China is moving to strengthen its alliances as a counterweight to President Donald Trump's trade war
May 13, 2025Asia-Pacific trade envoys will gather this week in South Korea for discussions on multilateral cooperation, with talks taking place at a time when countries are
May 13, 2025U.S.
May 13, 2025President Donald Trump is on his way to the Middle East, where he had intended to focus on pressing wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States
May 12, 2025‘We hope sense will prevail,’ Pakistan’s foreign minister says as delicate India-Pakistan ceasefire holds
May 12, 2025Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was almost certain to be elected mayor of his home city by a landslide on Monday, unimpeded by his
May 12, 2025India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire after weeks of tension and back-and-forth strikes, with India’s foreign secretary saying the halt in fighting is now in effect. CNN International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson and CNN Chief Global Affairs correspondent, Matthew Chance report on the latest.
May 10, 2025Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India has only “paused its military action” and will “retaliate on its own terms” if there is any future terror attack on the country
May 12, 2025Pakistan will have to get rid of its "terrorist infrastructure" if it wants to be "saved", Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, his first comments on the military
May 12, 2025Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central Sagaing region has hit a school
May 12, 2025After days of intense firefights, Indian and Pakistani authorities say there were no reported incidents of firing overnight along the heavily militarized region between their countries
May 01, 2025Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan on Monday that New Delhi would target "terrorist hideouts" across the
May 12, 2025The military operations chiefs of India and Pakistan held talks by phone on Monday evening, broadcaster CNN-News18 said, two days after the nuclear-armed neighbours reached a
May 12, 2025Taiwan on Monday test-fired for the first time a new U.S.-supplied rocket system that has been widely used by Ukraine against Russia and
May 12, 2025Japanese supermarket rice prices fell for the first time in 18 weeks, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, though they were still double the price from the same period a year
May 12, 2025China will host a summit that includes its key Latin American trade partners this week in an effort to advance influence and partnerships in the region,
May 12, 2025Contenders for South Korea's presidency kicked off their campaigns on Monday, vowing to unify a deeply polarised society and spur economic growth while navigating
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May 11, 2025The Indian military sent a "hotline message" to Pakistan on Sunday about violations of a ceasefire agreed
May 11, 2025Three Chinese nationals arrested in Japan after thousands of protected hermit crabs found in suitcases
May 11, 2025After spending days in temporary homes and with relatives, people from both sides of the Indian and Pakistani border are
May 11, 2025Pope Leo XIV appealed to the world's major powers for "no more war" in his first Sunday message to crowds in St.
May 11, 2025A passenger bus has skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others
May 11, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump hailed talks with China in Switzerland on Saturday, saying the two sides had negotiated "a total reset ... in a friendly, but constructive, manner."
May 10, 2025Trump says ‘great progress made’ between US and China following first day of trade talks
May 10, 2025India and Pakistan agreed to stop firing along their border on Saturday, bringing an end to the escalated tensions between the two arch-rivals after multiple strikes were launched
April 23, 2025A key water-sharing pact between India and Pakistan remains suspended, four government sources told Reuters,
May 10, 2025Rodrigo Duterte is being held at The Hague. Next week he might be elected mayor of his hometown
May 10, 2025The Indian army said on Saturday that Pakistan was continuing its "blatant escalation" with drone strikes and using other munitions along India's western border, and its "enemy
May 10, 2025U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Pakistan's Army Chief General Asim Munir on Friday and urged both Pakistan and India to find ways to de-escalate, a U.S.
May 10, 2025China's factory-gate prices posted the steepest drop in six months in April while consumer prices fell for a third month, underlining the need for more stimulus as policymakers
May 10, 2025Delta Air Lines and Korean Air Lines will acquire an aggregate 25% stake in Canada's WestJet Airlines for $550 million from private equity firm Onex Corp, the U.S. carrier said on Friday.
May 09, 2025The Indian Premier League was suspended for one week on Friday while the Pakistan Super League postponed its remaining matches in the wake of the ongoing
May 09, 2025India has offered to slash its tariff gap with the U.S. to less than 4% from nearly 13% now, in exchange for an exemption from
May 09, 2025Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Friday with a major military parade
May 08, 2025Taiwan criticised Russia and China on Friday for distorting World War Two history, saying Chinese communist forces made "no substantial contribution" to fighting
May 09, 2025Nippon Steel expects net profit to slide 43% in the fiscal year ending March 2026, it said on Friday, citing a weak global steel market pressured
May 09, 2025Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on Friday projected a 9.6% growth in operating profit this year on robust defence demand without weaving in impact of U.S. tariffs, after its
May 09, 2025President Donald Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job
May 08, 2025U.S. energy groups are asking President Donald Trump's administration to exempt liquefied natural gas tankers from a new rule
May 07, 2025Two advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents
May 08, 2025U.S. law firm Susman Godfrey asked a judge in Washington on Thursday to permanently bar President Donald Trump's executive order against it, calling the
May 08, 2025A top Chinese-made Pakistani fighter plane shot down at least two Indian military aircraft on Wednesday, two U.S. officials told Reuters,
May 08, 2025Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged de-escalation and expressed support for direct dialogue in separate calls with Indian External Affairs
May 08, 2025Blasts rang out across the Indian city of Jammu late on Thursday during what the government said was a Pakistani drone and
May 08, 2025The people of Kashmir have for decades been caught in the middle of the bitter rivalry between Pakistan and India over the disputed Himalayan region they call home
May 08, 2025Recent U.S. sanctions on two small Chinese refiners for buying Iranian oil have created difficulties receiving crude and led them to sell
May 08, 2025Saudi Arabia has held off formally joining the BRICS bloc of nations despite attending a meeting in Brazil last week, two sources
May 08, 2025Taiwan and Europe face the same threat from authoritarianism, President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, marking 80 years since the end of World War Two in Europe and
May 08, 2025India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday after a fourth day of strikes and counter-strikes against each other's military installations.
May 07, 2025Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called for restraint between India and Pakistan upon landing in New Delhi on Thursday, state media reported, a day after India targeted what it
May 08, 2025North Korea has fired various types of short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, according to South Korea's military, which was analyzing whether the tests were linked to the North’s weapons exports to Russia amid the prolonged aggression in Ukraine
May 07, 2025Singapore lender DBS Group flagged risk from heightened uncertainty and softer non-interest income growth for 2025 after posting on Thursday a 2% drop in first-
May 07, 2025Xi Jinping arrives in Moscow as Putin’s ‘guest of honor’ ahead of Victory Day military parade
May 07, 2025The United States said
May 07, 2025South Korea's foreign exchange reserves dropped to the lowest level in five years in April, caused by market stabilising measures to ease the impact of global trade volatility.
May 07, 2025Pakistan says it will avenge those killed by India’s missile strikes that New Delhi called retaliation for last month’s massacre of Indian tourists
May 06, 2025Russia marks on Friday the 80th anniversary of the Soviet and allied victory over Nazi Germany, though there are fears that Ukraine may
May 07, 2025Airlines including United Airlines and Korean Air re-routed or cancelled flights and about a dozen Indian airports
May 07, 2025U.S.-listed ride-hailing and food delivery company Grab is looking to strike a deal to take over smaller Indonesian rival
May 07, 2025A European Commission spokesperson said on Wednesday that China continues to be the key enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine and that without China's support, Russia would not be
May 07, 2025It will be a challenge for Indonesia's economy to grow 5% this year due to the global trade war and softening consumer spending, but a moderation won't put the country's ratings at
May 07, 2025Residents of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said they fled their homes and ran into surrounding hills as India launched
May 07, 2025South Korea's conservatives struggled on Wednesday to form a unity ticket to take on Democratic Party frontrunner Lee Jae-myung in a snap vote set for June 3, as courts
May 07, 2025By Krishna N.
May 07, 2025India struck nine "terrorist camps" in Pakistan on Wednesday that it accused of serving as indoctrination centres, training areas, and launchpads, two weeks after an attack in
May 07, 2025India strikes deep inside Pakistan, Pakistan claims 5 Indian jets shot down, in major escalation
May 06, 2025Vietnam's imports from China and exports to the United States both reached a post-pandemic record in April, amid talks with Washington to reduce
May 07, 2025Ukraine attacked Moscow with drones for a third day on Wednesday forcing most of the Russian capital's airports to close just as Chinese President Xi Jinping was due to arrive to
May 07, 2025Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory on Wednesday, four local government sources told Reuters, hours after India said it struck nine Pakistani "
May 07, 2025The Indian armed forces launched "Operation Sindoor," hitting nine sites in Pakistan and "Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir", the Indian government said in a statement on Wednesday.
May 06, 2025When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, among the numerous immigration-related executive orders he signed was one suspending the country’s refugee program
May 07, 2025India launched attacks on suspected militant camps in Pakistan on Wednesday in response to the killing of 26 people, mostly tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.
May 06, 2025North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected munitions factories that make shells and machinery, state media KCNA said on Wednesday.
May 06, 2025Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to
May 06, 2025The dollar fell broadly on Tuesday on worries that U.S.
May 06, 2025Who will be the next pope? Here are some possible candidates
April 22, 2025Cardinals have wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings before they enter the conclave to elect a new pope
May 06, 2025Skype users are scrambling to find an alternative after Microsoft shut down the pioneering internet phone service which let people make cheap long distance calls and chat with other users
May 06, 2025Twenty-nine world leaders, including China's Xi Jinping, are expected to attend World War Two Victory Day commemorations in Moscow in the coming days, Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin
May 06, 2025Fact check: Trump makes more false claims about Canada in advance of meeting with prime minister
May 06, 2025The sound of Chinese fighter jets roared over the Egyptian pyramids and could echo across the Middle East, as Beijing wrapped up military drills with Cairo aimed at
May 06, 2025Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and AI server maker Wistron Corp said on Tuesday its board has approved an additional investment of $455 million in its new U.S. subsidiary.
May 06, 2025An ethnic militia group in southeastern Myanmar that faces sanctions by the United States over its alleged involvement with human trafficking and online scams has criticized Washington’s actions
May 06, 2025President Xi Jinping said China was ready to work with European Union leaders to expand mutual openness and properly handle frictions and differences, the official news agency
May 06, 2025CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson, treks through the forest in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan as tensions rise between the two countries weeks after a terrorist attack killed 26 civilians in the mountainous Anantnag district.
May 05, 2025India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-
May 06, 2025South Korea's former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said on Tuesday he saw no alternative other than teaming up with the presidential candidate of the ruling conservative People Power
May 06, 2025Bangladesh’s ailing former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to the country from London on Tuesday after four months of medical treatment, adding to pressure for its interim leaders to hold elections
May 06, 2025When Washington announced higher tariffs and the axing of a de minimis rule that allowed for low-value packages from Hong Kong and mainland China to
May 06, 2025Philippine inflation was at its lowest level in more than five years in April due to falling food and transport costs, the statistics agency said on
May 06, 2025Iran’s foreign minister has held talks with top Pakistani officials to try and mediate in the escalation between Islamabad and New Delhi after last month’s deadly attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir
May 05, 2025India and Pakistan have been scrambling resources both military and diplomatic to respond to a crisis triggered by a massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that has heightened fears of a conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals
May 05, 2025Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse conclave in history
May 05, 2025Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and Apple's biggest iPhone assembler, reported on Monday that its April revenue rose 25.54% on year.
May 05, 2025A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces accidentally sank hours before the mock assault, prompting the drill to be cancelled
May 05, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to his Pakistani counterpart on Sunday and offered Russia's help in resolving tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, the Foreign
May 04, 2025Chinese President Xi Jinping will make an official visit to Russia from May 7-10 to participate in celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Kremlin
May 04, 2025Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia May 7–10 at President Vladimir Putin’s invitation, the Kremlin confirmed Sunday
May 04, 2025Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said the convincing re-election of his People's Action Party would help the city-state face turbulent times, as analysts said the weekend
May 04, 2025Two people, including a five-year-old girl, were killed and several others injured when a car crashed into the entrance of Manila's international airport on Sunday, authorities said,
May 04, 2025North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected an "important" tank factory and touted "great progress in the core technology of Korean-style tanks," state media KCNA said on Sunday.
May 03, 2025The NCAA has taken disciplinary action against five current or former Iowa State athletic department employees for combining to make more than 6,200 online bets totaling more than $100,000 on professional and college games, including men’s and women’s basketball games involving the Cyclones
May 02, 2025Samples from official vote counting in Singapore's election on Saturday showed the People's Action Party was on course for victory, as the party looked set to win its 14th
May 03, 2025South Korea's conservative People Power Party on Saturday picked former labour minister Kim Moon-soo as its candidate for the June 3 presidential election, which was
May 03, 2025With the end of a U.S. tariff exemption for small parcels on Friday, some retailers have stopped selling to customers in the United States while others are seeking
May 02, 2025Hong Kong's retail sales fell 3.5% by value in March from a year earlier, marking the 13th consecutive month of declines, government data showed on Friday.
May 02, 2025Neelum Valley in northern Pakistan attracts some 300,000 tourists each summer who marvel at its natural beauty
May 01, 2025A prominent pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement says he was told items he had loaned to the Smithsonian Institution would be under review for whether they should remain on display at the institution
May 02, 2025President Lai Ching-te will next week mark for the first time in Taiwan the end of World War Two in Europe and underscore that aggression must be
May 02, 2025India's foreign minister said he has told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that perpetrators of the deadly attack in
May 01, 2025South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.1% in April over a year, slightly above market expectations, official data showed on Friday.
May 01, 2025South Korea's top court cast doubt on Thursday on frontrunner Lee Jae-myung's eligibility to run for the presidency, while the resignations of the prime
May 01, 2025Prosecutors in Thailand say they don't intend to press charges against an American academic arrested for royal defamation
May 01, 2025South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, says he is resigning amid reports he will run in next month’s presidential election
May 01, 2025A flurry of immigration enforcement activity at courthouses around the country in the past month has renewed a legal battle from President Donald Trump’s first term
May 01, 2025Do bad people have it coming? Study finds most karma believers think so
May 01, 2025Indonesia's parliament is set to agree next week to ratify an agreement made with Vietnam that sets the boundaries of their exclusive
May 01, 2025Thailand's state prosecutor said on Thursday it will not prosecute an American academic who was arrested and charged last month with insulting the royal family, a crime that
May 01, 2025North Korea and Russia have begun building their first road link, the two countries announced, hailing the construction of a bridge over a border river as a major development that will further expand their booming ties
May 01, 2025Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to pursue the assailants behind last month's attack on tourists in Kashmir to the "ends of the earth".
May 01, 2025Pakistan claims it has ‘credible intelligence’ India will strike within 36 hours
April 30, 2025Harris accuses Trump of abandoning American ideals in first major speech since leaving office
May 01, 2025South Korean prosecutors have indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol for abuse of authority, Yonhap said on Thursday.
May 01, 2025South Korea's exports were unexpectedly resilient in April, buoyed by strong demand for semiconductors despite the drag from U.S. tariffs, although there are signs that
April 30, 2025North Korea said the construction of a new bridge linking it to Russia is a "significant" development of relations between the two countries, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
April 30, 2025First Canada, now Australia? Conservatives fear the Trump slump is spreading
April 30, 2025Pakistan said on Wednesday it has "credible intelligence" that India intends to launch military action soon, as tensions between the nuclear-armed
April 29, 2025Pakistan says it has “credible intelligence” that India is planning to attack it within days over last week's deadly attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir
April 30, 2025Vietnam has celebrated the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace
April 29, 2025The Associated Press has collected some of the first witness accounts of the massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that left 26 people dead
April 30, 2025China has decided to lift sanctions on members of the European Parliament as well as on its subcommittee on human rights, the parliament's president, Roberta Metsola, said on
April 30, 2025Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday that he aims for steady but quick progress in tariff negotiations with the United States as losses at the country's
April 30, 2025Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Wednesday for action to adjust to changes in the international environment as the country drafts economic plans for the next five years, state
April 30, 2025Police say a fire tore through a hotel in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, killing at least 14 people
April 30, 2025The Philippines and New Zealand strengthened defence ties with the signing of a landmark troop pact on Wednesday, opening the way for expanded military cooperation amid shared
April 30, 2025Singapore holds a parliamentary election on May 3 that will be contested by 11 parties across the city state of 6 million people with 2.76 million registered to vote.
April 30, 2025China's factory activity contracted at the fastest pace in 16 months in April, a factory survey showed on Wednesday, keeping alive calls for further stimulus as Donald
April 29, 2025South Korea's spy agency says an estimated 4,700 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting alongside Russia against Ukrainian forces
April 30, 2025Asian hedge funds tiptoed back into the market last week, adding to their positions in Japan and India shares, after quickly cutting exposure when U.S.
April 30, 2025Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have temporarily closed more than half of the resorts in the scenic Himalayan region following a deadly attack on tourists
April 29, 2025North Korea earlier this week conducted the first test-firing of the weapons system of the new "Choe Hyon-class" warship it recently unveiled, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday.
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April 29, 2025The Resistance Front, a militant group, claimed responsibility for the Kashmir terror attack. The Asia-Pacific Foundation’s Sajjan Gohel explains TRF's ties to a larger banned group and the impact of India’s retaliatory measures on Pakistan’s economy and food security.
April 24, 2025Britain called on Tuesday for calm between Indian and Pakistani communities in London after lawmakers voiced concerns that tensions over a deadly militant attack in India's Kashmir
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