A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to two years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of illegally receiving opinion polling services worth
July 13, 2026
Japan has no immediate plans to change target asset allocations of its state pension funds but could work within existing allowable ranges to direct more
July 13, 2026
Severe flooding in China's northern Hebei province and northeastern Liaoning province submerged roads and swept away cars, while people swam, paddle-boarded and wake
July 13, 2026
An explosive fire at a popular pub in Thailand's capital Bangkok has killed 27 people, with another 22 injured in critical condition, officials said on Monday.
July 13, 2026
NATO allies, Ukraine and Israel have paid tribute to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham as a friend and advocate of trans-Atlantic ties
July 12, 2026
Typhoon Bavi has weakened to a tropical storm but it's still bringing strong winds and heavy rain to parts of China
July 12, 2026
Haeran Ryu has birdied the first hole of a playoff with Brooke Henderson to win the Evian Championship for a second straight major title in the space of three weeks
July 12, 2026
China’s national weather center says Typhoon Bavi has made landfall in the eastern province of Zhejiang and is expected to gradually weaken
July 11, 2026
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's coalition suffered a crushing defeat to a key partner in a regional poll on Saturday, raising questions
July 12, 2026
Haeran Ryu is in the LPGA record book with the lowest round in a major at 60
July 11, 2026
Typhoon Bavi made landfall late on Saturday in the coastal city of Taizhou in eastern China, where nearly 2 million people
July 11, 2026
China evacuated more than 1.8 million people on Saturday as Typhoon Bavi churned toward the the major eastern city of
July 11, 2026
North Korea condemned the United States and its allies on Saturday for what it called strengthening military blocs and accelerating arms buildups after a NATO summit this
July 11, 2026
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon upgraded their nations' diplomatic ties on Saturday, as Modi seeks to bolster New
July 11, 2026
Localities across northern China are bracing for heavy rains, shutting parks and lowering water levels in reservoirs, as the powerful Typhoon Bavi continued to send
July 10, 2026
Shein's high-profile stock market listing may force its secretive founder and CEO, Sky Xu, to finally come out of the shadows
July 10, 2026
When South Korean billionaire Chey Tae-won rang the Nasdaq's opening bell for SK Hynix's $26.5 billion listing on Friday, it marked the ultimate payoff of a
July 10, 2026
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is poised to order 15 Boeing 787-10 aircraft and nine Airbus A350-1000 jets, marking its first Boeing purchase
July 10, 2026
Volkswagen reported an 8.6% fall in global vehicle deliveries in the second quarter on Friday, the steepest quarterly decline in four years, as a sharp downturn in
July 10, 2026
Volkswagen has reported weak sales numbers, with a significant drop in China
July 10, 2026
SoftBank Corp and mobile payments operator PayPay are in talks to invest in retail giant Seven & i Holdings, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
July 10, 2026
A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's southwest on Friday, prompting authorities to
July 10, 2026
Sri Lanka's efforts to reduce prison overcrowding by reopening a colonial jail and recruiting more staff after a deadly riot left 28 people dead need
July 10, 2026
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July 10, 2026
Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March have filed a lawsuit against the vessel’s operator
July 10, 2026
Authorities are investigating a blaze at a shoe factory in southeastern China's Fujian province that killed 28 people, raising renewed concern over worker safety
July 10, 2026
An upcoming meeting between foreign ministers of the Southeast Asian grouping ASEAN and their counterpart from Myanmar will tackle the country's civil war and its
July 10, 2026
A powerful typhoon is heading toward China's east coast
July 10, 2026
Torrential rains bring devastating floods to a Chinese city – and a snake invasion
July 10, 2026
Japan's wholesale inflation accelerated in June at the fastest pace in more than three years and the government brushed aside market concern over political
July 10, 2026
North Korea has decided on measures to strengthen its nuclear forces "quantitatively and qualitatively" as leader Kim Jong Un called for modernising its military, state
July 10, 2026
Stocks rose, and oil prices eased as financial markets calmed a day after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran
July 09, 2026
Wall Street surged on Thursday while oil prices retreated, as investors rekindled their enthusiasm for technology shares, shaking off worries about
July 09, 2026
Cities and provinces in northern China are on alert for intense rainfall on Friday as Typhoon Bavi — potentially the most
July 09, 2026
At least 28 people were killed in a fire at a shoe factory in southeastern China on Thursday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, after flames engulfed the multi-storey
July 09, 2026
A fire has broken out at a shoe factory in China's Fujian province, killing 28 people
July 09, 2026
The family of Faisal Jatoi, the Pakistani co-pilot missing with four others after their cargo plane crashed into the Arabian Sea, faced an agonising wait
July 09, 2026
Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN will hold an informal meeting with their Myanmar counterpart in Bangkok on July 12, Thailand and Vietnam said on Thursday.
July 09, 2026
Australia and India reached a deal on Thursday to export Australian uranium to India for use in the nuclear energy
July 09, 2026
The defence minister of the Philippines on Thursday rejected as "baseless" and "ludicrous" assertions by Chinese scholars that its northernmost island-chain province belongs
July 09, 2026
China has reported its exports of passenger cars surged 80% in June from a year earlier, while domestic sales sank 26%, according to an industry group
July 09, 2026
The Japanese owner of clothing brand Uniqlo raised its annual profit forecast on Thursday on strong global sales but warned about the impact of the weak yen at
July 09, 2026
Taiwan's government took a small group of foreign lawmakers on a Coast Guard ship
July 09, 2026
Asian policymakers, investors and business leaders are increasingly portraying themselves as active participants in navigating a more fragmented global
July 09, 2026
Authorities in southern China say 39 people have died in flooding after days of heavy rainfall from a tropical storm
July 09, 2026
South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first case to reach the country’s highest court from the several criminal trials related to his brief imposition of martial law in 2024
July 09, 2026
India's consumer inflation likely breached the central bank's medium-term target of 4% in June for the first time in 16 months, according to a Reuters
July 09, 2026
South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence handed down to former President Yoon Suk Yeol for
July 09, 2026
New Zealand will consider joining a defence alliance between Australia and Fiji that both countries entered earlier this week, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on
July 09, 2026
China's producer price inflation surged to its highest level in four years in June, piling pressure on manufacturers' profit margins as weak domestic demand limits their
July 09, 2026
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July 09, 2026
China has allocated millions in relief funding for disaster-hit areas after severe storms and a deadly landslide
July 08, 2026
Turkey put on a red-white-and-blue air show and named a new airport building after President Donald Trump, seeking
July 09, 2026
The Asian Development Bank sees a slight improvement in the growth outlook for developing Asia and the Pacific this year, though still below earlier projections due to the
July 08, 2026
The U.S. dollar dipped after reaching its highest level in about a week on Wednesday after U.S.
July 08, 2026
Dularika Perera, 38, only found out her cousin was among 26 people killed in the worst Sri Lankan prison riot in years when his photo was sent to her
July 08, 2026
China's gradually increasing pressure tactics risk creating an entirely new status quo in the Taiwan Strait, which the international community may not realise until it is
July 08, 2026
Road closures and bamboo bridges have helped protect Taiwan's largest terrestrial crab species during breeding season when they
July 08, 2026
The death toll has risen to 21 in a landslide has buried forestry workers in a remote valley in northwestern China
July 08, 2026
The United States has charged Lawrence Bishnoi, the imprisoned head of an Indian criminal gang, and his North American deputy with directing the 2023 murder of
July 08, 2026
Japanese asset managers, including the units of Mizuho and Nomura, are rushing to launch bond funds to meet soaring interest in Japanese debt
July 08, 2026
South Korea's finance minister agreed on Wednesday with other economic policymakers to closely monitor risk factors that could heighten stock market volatility, the ministry
July 08, 2026
In May, General Motors marked a rare milestone for a foreign automaker in China, selling more than 10,000 of its new Buick Electra E7 in the first month.
July 08, 2026
Authorities have charged the leader of an Indian criminal group in connection with the assassination of a prominent Sikh leader in Canada
July 08, 2026
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July 07, 2026
Taiwan's preparations to deal with a possible Chinese attack are not a provocation, and the island's people need to take the threat seriously and prepare now, a senior
July 07, 2026
China and Japan reported conflicting accounts on Tuesday of a confrontation near the disputed Senkaku Islands involving their coast guards and a Japanese fishing
July 07, 2026
A riot in a Sri Lankan prison that killed 26 people and injured dozens was due to a clash between two groups over drug smuggling within the jail, a top
July 07, 2026
South Korea is enforcing a law that allows steep punitive damages against news outlets and social media influencers for spreading false information as journalist groups warned it could chill public discourse and invite censorship
July 07, 2026
A debate over use of traditional Chinese symbols has cropped up after a court ordered a Chinese tea chain to pay the French luxury brand Louis Vuitton $1.5 million over copyright infringement claims
July 07, 2026
Two tornadoes wrought devastation in central China's Hubei province, killing at least 11 people, as winds of up to 149 kph (93 mph) overturned cars and ripped
July 07, 2026
A commentary carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Tuesday criticised Japan's military expansion, saying its overseas aggression was "not hypothetical but reality" and
July 07, 2026
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July 07, 2026
Clashes inside a prison near Sri Lanka’s capital have killed at least 25 people, mostly inmates, and injured over 100
July 06, 2026
A rebound for AI stocks lifted the U.S. market
July 06, 2026
Flooding has killed at least two people in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, officials said on Monday, as rivers and reservoirs
July 06, 2026
India's anti-terrorism agency said it filed charges on Monday against Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-
July 06, 2026
The Kremlin said that joint naval drills between Russia and China which kicked off on Monday in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city of Qingdao were not directed
July 06, 2026
The impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte opened on Monday with prosecutors casting the case as a test of
July 06, 2026
Australia and Fiji have signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win within a year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific
July 06, 2026
The Philippine Senate has started the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte in a politically volatile event that will unfold against the backdrop of her feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thousands of police officers were deployed to secure the Senate on Monday
July 06, 2026
At least six people including five children were killed when a group of buildings collapsed in the eastern suburbs of India's Mumbai on Sunday, the latest casualties of
July 06, 2026
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July 06, 2026
Super typhoon smacks into US Pacific island territories home to key military bases
July 06, 2026
Taiwan is tracking an "upward trend" in Chinese naval movements during the peak military exercise season, including joint drills with Russia, and will be analysing any new
July 06, 2026
Turkish authorities detained more than 100 people taking part in an anti-NATO protest march
July 06, 2026
A tropical storm killed two people, caused dam breaches and forced tens of thousands to evacuate in southern China, state media reported
July 05, 2026
Founder of one of China’s biggest underground churches freed, reunites with family in US
July 05, 2026
ChinaAid, a Christian NGO, said on Sunday it welcomed the release of Zion Church Pastor Jin Mingri, who had been held in detention centres in the southern Chinese city of
July 05, 2026
Taiwan's military has resumed "anti-communist" patriotic classes for its graduates after a quarter-century gap, the defence ministry said on Sunday, citing a rising threat
July 05, 2026
A pastor of a prominent underground church detained in China in October has been released, according to rights advocates
July 05, 2026
China said on Saturday it had launched a new coast guard patrol east of Taiwan, drawing a sharp response from Taipei after a task
July 04, 2026
China's Chery formally took over Nissan's car manufacturing plant in Rosslyn on Friday under a deal that was announced in January, and executives
July 03, 2026
Iran is preparing for the dayslong funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
July 03, 2026
Tropical Storm Maysak lashed southern China's island province of Hainan on Friday, making landfall with maximum winds near its centre of 23 metres per second (51 mph) and
July 03, 2026
Early in the morning on June 18, a message from an unknown account slipped into the TikTok inbox of a flight attendant in
July 03, 2026
Police in New York City said on Thursday a man died from severe burns near the United Nations headquarters, and activists and a media outlet of exiled
July 03, 2026
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will attend a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, from July 7 to 8, Seoul's national security adviser said on
July 03, 2026
Japan's services sector returned to expansion in June after stalling the previous month, though business confidence remained subdued amid concerns over Middle East tensions
July 03, 2026
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