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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, said South Korea, as the leaders of Read more
Thailand’s 88-year-old king, the world’s longest reigning monarch, has shown signs of improvement following treatment for a blood infection, the palace said in a statement Read more
By Kevin Yao and Kiyoshi Takenaka HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – The global economy is being threatened by rising protectionism and risks from highly leveraged financial Read more
A Singapore woman, Aresha Krishnan-Harling has taken to the social media to campaign for the mass support of the citizenry and not the government alone in Read more
President Barack Obama arrived Saturday afternoon in Hangzhou, China, where he will join other world leaders for the Group of 20 (G-20) summit. He will Read more
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, has received treatment for a severe blood infection, the palace said Friday. In a statement providing an update on the Read more
An explosion at a market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 10 people on Friday and wounded dozens more, Read more
Action movie star Jackie Chan is to be given an honorary Academy Award for his “extraordinary achievements” in film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts Read more
(9News AU) Canberra -Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced a plan to heavily target ISIS, and has warned that Australians could fall victim to deadly Read more
SINGAPORE: The spread of any disease to Singapore shows the challenges of controlling it, according to the Director of the United States’ Centers for Disease Read more
Malaysian police said Wednesday they had prevented a major extremist attack targeting a series of sites around Kuala Lumpur, just a day before the country’s Read more
By Rozanna Latiff and Aradhana Aravindan KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Malaysia reported its first case of Zika on Thursday, a woman who tested positive for Read more
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A pregnant woman was among those diagnosed with Zika infections in Singapore, local media reported on Wednesday, citing the health ministry. Singapore Read more
North Korea has made considerable progress this year on weapons technology, including testing a submarine-launched missile for the first time, but it’s still not clear Read more
Foreign arrivals issued with welcome kit including safety advice for women, after high-profile assaults India’s tourism minister has said foreign women should not wear skirts Read more
By Marius Zaharia SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australia, Taiwan and South Korea advised pregnant women and those attempting to get pregnant to avoid travel to Singapore Read more
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea publicly executed two officials in early August for disobeying leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday, Read more
An explosion around the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan killed and wounded several people, Interfax news agency cited a local emergency ministry’s representative as saying on Read more
By Euan McKirdy, CNN Manila, the Philippines (CNN)Lifeless bodies lying on the streets of the Philippines are a visceral sign of new President Rodrigo Duterte’s Read more
North Korea on Saturday threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by “provocative” American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A would-be suicide bomber’s explosives failed to detonate in a packed church in western Indonesia during Sunday Mass, and he injured Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian student activists led a rally Saturday to demand the arrest of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has been implicated Read more
Recent sightings of gold plated super cars worth over $1 million that were spotted in London and Singapore, Singapore recently have caused a great deal Read more
SINGAPORE: A 47-year-old Malaysian woman living at Block 102 Aljunied Crescent is Singapore’s first reported case of locally-transmitted Zika virus infection, the Ministry of Health Read more
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Air pollution in Singapore rose on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the city-state’s Read more
GEORGE TOWN, Aug 25 — Rapper Namewee was released on police bail at about 2.47pm today, following the police’s failure to detain him further for allegedly Read more
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will head a commission to discuss ethnic conflict and clashes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the government and the foundation Read more
They had spent more than a decade going back and forth with their CPP ((Cambodian People’s Party)) commune chief, who had promised them government funds Read more
By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) – One Thai person was killed and 30 wounded when two bombs exploded late on Tuesday near Read more
By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean submarine fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday that flew about 500 km (311 Read more
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