Lunar New Year prayers and festivities usher in the Year of the Horse

A worshiper wears a horse head decoration at Wong Tai Sin Temple to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Horse in Hong Kong (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) People are

Technology investor SoftBank Group sees profitability return on AI boom

Japanese technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group Corp. swung back into profitability in the last quarter of 2025 as its investments in OpenAI and other

The economic toll of backsliding rights in Asia

An Australian flag lies on the floor of an abandoned bedroom at a scam center in O’Smach, Cambodia Widespread backsliding on protections of basic rights

Teacher who created hundreds of learning centers wins $1 million Global Teacher Prize

Rouble Nagi (left) receives the trophy from Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, at a ceremony in Dubai yesterday An Indian teacher and

Northern areas hit by heavy snowfall, as warnings issued for more

People clear snow near a building in Aomori Heavy snow piling up in northern Japan in the last two weeks has blocked roads and is

Modi praised for US trade deal as opposition questions impact on agriculture

Indian lawmakers from the ruling coalition praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday for striking a deal with the U.S. that seeks to reduce tariffs

13-year-old swims for hours to save family swept out to sea

This image taken from video shows Austin Appelbee, right, posing with his family in Gidgegannup, yesterday A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his

People mark Setsubun with bean-throwing to ward off evil spirits

Scores gathered at a shrine in Japan’s Hakone to try and catch “lucky beans,” hoping to ward off evil spirits as they celebrate the last

An internal document shows the Vietnamese military preparing for a possible American war

A year after Vietnam elevated its relations with Washington to the highest diplomatic level, an internal document shows its military was taking steps to prepare for a

Hanoi and the EU upgrade ties as US tariffs reshape global trade

European Council President Antonio Costa and Vietnamese President Luong Cuong meet after a press conference in Hanoi, yesterday Vietnam and the European Union yesterday upgraded

China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based group in crackdown on scam operations

China executed 11 people it found guilty of killing 14 Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said.

Unmentioned but present, Trump is a common denominator in efforts to strengthen Asia-Europe ties

Stability. Consistency. Ever-changing complexity. With language like that, deployed in separate meetings in three Asian capitals this week, government leaders forged closer ties driven in

Former first lady sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption

The wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption yesterday, as her husband awaits a

PM says man who allegedly tried to bomb rally deserves ‘full force of law’

  Police should “throw the book” at a man who allegedly lobbed a homemade bomb into a crowd at a rally in support of Indigenous Australians,

India and EU clinch the ‘mother of all deals’ in a historic free trade agreement

Indian PM Modi (center) welcomes European Council President Antonio Costa (left) and European Commission PresidentUrsula von der Leyen before their meeting in New Delhi, yesterday A

Gov’t grounds company’s fleet of passenger ships after at least 18 die

Philippine officials yesterday grounded the entire fleet of passenger ships belonging to a company that owned a ferry that sank in the south and left at

At least 18 killed, hundreds rescued after ferry disaster

Rescued passengers from M/V Trisha Kerstin, 3 an inter-island cargo and passenger ferry that sank, on a boat around waters of Isabela City, Basilan Provincey, yesterday A ferry

A suicide bomber strikes a wedding in northwestern Pakistan and kills seven people 

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among guests at a wedding ceremony in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 25, police said. The

Cambodia will send 73 online scam suspects to South Korea

South Koreans, walking in the line to the left, arrive at the Incheon International Airport last October Dozens of South Koreans detained in Cambodia for

Man who assassinated prime minister Abe gets life in prison

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment yesterday. The case has revealed decades of cozy

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