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

Former prime minister jailed for 23 years in martial law case

A South Korean court ruled yesterday that the ill-fated imposition of martial law by the then President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion, as

Social media platforms removed 4.7 million accounts after Australia banned them for children

Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia since the country banned use of the platforms by those under 16,

Manila and Tokyo sign a new defense pact as they face growing China influence

Japanese FM Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro shake hands in Manila, yesterday Japan and the Philippines signed a defense pact yesterday

Another construction crane collapse kills 2 people a day after deadly train derailment

A construction crane collapsed onto an elevated road near Bangkok, killing two people yesterday, a day after another crane fell onto a moving passenger train in

Construction crane falls onto a moving train, killing 30 people

Rescuers work amidst the wreckage after a construction crane fell into a passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province, yesterday A construction crane fell onto a moving

Adelaide Writers Week canceled as 180 speakers withdraw

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Organizers of Australia’s largest free literary festival canceled the event yesterday after more than 180 writers and speakers

Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Grok over sexually explicit AI images

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was

Bride and groom among eight killed in gas cylinder blast at wedding in Pakistan’s capital

A gas cylinder explosion yesterday after a wedding reception at a home in Pakistan’s capital killed at least eight people, including the bride and groom, police and officials said.

Why Southeast Asia’s online scam industry is so hard to shut down

People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released

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