Seven killed as strong quakes strike southern Philippines
10 October 2025, 14:08 PM
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Myanmar junta strike kills 40 at festival protest: residents
8 October 2025, 03:43 AM
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Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 37
5 October 2025, 03:39 AM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17, dozens still missing
4 October 2025, 13:51 PM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 14
4 October 2025, 05:44 AM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 13
3 October 2025, 18:37 PM
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Myanmar's reclusive general turns jet-setter in quest for election backing
3 October 2025, 16:00 PM
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91 people possibly still under collapsed Indonesian school: official
1 October 2025, 04:47 AM
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UN warns Myanmar conflict blocking Rohingya return
30 September 2025, 15:15 PM
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Argentina court urged to include Arakan Army atrocities in Rohingya genocide case
3 September 2025, 13:03 PM
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Myanmar plans to curb rice exports to control domestic prices
"We will temporarily limit rice exports for about 45 days from the end of this month," says a senior member of the Myanmar Rice Federation
25 August 2023, 10:16 AM
New Thai PM sworn in
Thailand’s new prime minister vowed to bring four years of change to the kingdom as he took office yesterday.
23 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Thailand's Thaksin moved to hospital after exile return
Thailand's former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was moved from prison to a police hospital on Wednesday, officials said, a day after he was jailed on his return from 15 years in exile
23 August 2023, 03:29 AM
Thaksin Shinawatra: Thailand's divisive former PM
He was ousted in a coup 17 years ago and spent the last 15 of them in self-imposed exile, but Thailand's billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra still casts a remarkable shadow over the kingdom's politics
22 August 2023, 03:30 AM
Ex-PM Thaksin returns to Thailand after 15 years in exile
Thailand's divisive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra returned to the kingdom Tuesday, after 15 years in exile and hours before parliament votes for a new prime minister
22 August 2023, 02:47 AM
2 Christians arrested in Pakistan
Police in Pakistan have arrested two Christians accused of blasphemy, a spokesperson said yesterday, two days after a Muslim mob burnt churches and houses in the minority’s settlement, saying the two men had desecrated the holy Quran.
18 August 2023, 18:00 PM
S$1B money laundering case: 11 more properties in S’pore linked to suspects
Eleven more properties were issued with prohibition of disposal orders in the billion-dollar anti-money laundering case involving foreigners from Fujian
18 August 2023, 11:05 AM
Rival party backs Pheu Thai in bid to form govt
Thailand’s Pheu Thai party yesterday received a boost in its efforts to form a government after a ninth party joined its alliance and a senior member of a rival, military-backed party pledged its support to try to end months of deadlock.
10 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Jailed Imran Khan challenges graft conviction
Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan appealed against his conviction and three-year sentence on corruption charges yesterday, his lawyer said, a ruling which analysts say is likely to fuel political instability.
8 August 2023, 18:00 PM
War crimes by military ‘more frequent, brazen’
War crimes committed by Myanmar’s military, including the bombing of civilians, have become “increasingly frequent and brazen”, a team of United Nations investigators said in a report published yesterday.
8 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Imran held in small, dirty prison cell
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is being held in a small, dirty prison cell, one of his lawyer’s said yesterday after being given access to the former cricket star in jail as he prepares to appeal against his graft conviction.
7 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Imran’s lawyers can’t reach him in Pakistan jail
Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyers could not reach him yesterday after he spent the night in a jail near the capital following his arrest the previous day on a corruption conviction, a spokesperson said.
6 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Climbers break 14 peaks record
Record-breaking mountaineering duo Kristin Harila and Tenjin “Lama” Sherpa were greeted with a heroes’ welcome in Nepal yesterday after the pair successfully conquered the world’s highest peaks.
5 August 2023, 18:00 PM
PM proposes its dissolution on Aug 9
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has proposed that parliament be dissolved on August 9, three days before the end of its term, political sources said yesterday, paving way for a general election by November.
4 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Myanmar junta cuts six years from Suu Kyi's 33-year jail term
Myanmar reduced ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's 33-year prison sentence by six years in a partial pardon on Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell bloody resistance to its rule
1 August 2023, 09:24 AM
Suu Kyi pardoned in 5 cases, still faces 14 others
Jailed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five criminal cases, although she still faces 14 others, state media said Tuesday
1 August 2023, 06:07 AM
Myanmar junta extends state of emergency, delaying polls
Myanmar's National Defence and Security Council agreed Monday to extend the country's state of emergency by six months, state media said, likely delaying elections the junta had pledged to hold by August
31 July 2023, 11:04 AM
Suu Kyi moved from prison: party official
Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted from power in a 2021 military coup, has been moved from prison to a government building, an official from her political party said Friday
28 July 2023, 02:32 AM
Typhoon doksuri: 2 dead in Philippines
At least one person died as powerful typhoon Doksuri lashed the coastline of the northern Philippines with gale-force winds and torrential rain yesterday, bursting banks of rivers and leaving thousands without electricity.
26 July 2023, 18:00 PM
Junta may move Suu Kyi to house arrest
Myanmar’s military government may move ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi from prison to house arrest in the capital, Naypyitaw, two media outlets reported yesterday.
26 July 2023, 18:00 PM