US President Donald Trump gave popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok six weeks to sell its US operations to an American company, saying on Monday it would be "out of business" otherwise, and that…

(ST) - The police are investigating the chief priest of Singapore's oldest Hindu temple, the Sri Mariamman Temple, for an incident involving criminal breach of trust. In a statement released on…

(Jakarta Post) - The National Police will investigate allegations that a flow of illicit funds allowed graft fugitive Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra to evade law enforcement for more than a decade.…

(NST) - Australia on Sunday introduced sweeping new measures to control a growing coronavirus outbreak in its second-biggest city, including an overnight curfew and a ban on weddings for the first…

(Global Times) - A global trend toward "de-dollarization" has already begun. The last piece of "load-bearing wall" of the "US Empire State Building" has cracked, in other words. Global policies…

(The Star) - Hong Kong opened a temporary field hospital with 500 beds on Saturday to house stable Covid-19 (coronavirus) patients as the city battles a new wave of virus infections. The…

(Sky News) - Millions of over 50s could be told to stay at home under a "nuclear" option to prevent a new nationwide lockdown if there is a second wave of coronavirus. Boris Johnson is…

(BBC) - A tell-all memoir written by President Donald Trump's niece claims that he is a "narcissist" who now threatens the life of every American. Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough:…

(BBC) - Until recently, Hong Kong was considered a poster child in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite sharing a border with mainland China, where the first cases were reported, Hong…

(Reuters) - There had been so few coronavirus cases in Vietnam that every patient was known by a number: Patient 17 brought the virus back from Europe after an initial wave of infections from…

(NST) - US President Donald Trump on Thursday floated an unprecedented delay to the 2020 election – which polls show him losing – but the suggestion drew cross-party fire and has virtually no…

(FMT) - Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr today said “no country can tell another what it can and cannot say” in an apparent reaction to a chiding from his Malaysian…

(FMT) - The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday and the defence minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to…

(BBC) - Hong Kong's hospital system could face "collapse" as it grapples with a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, the city's leader Carrie Lam has warned. She said the city was "on the verge of…

One person in the United States died about every minute from COVID-19 on Wednesday as the national death toll surpassed 150,000, the highest in the world (Reuters) - The United States recorded…

(The Star) - Thailand ranked highest in a global survey for its effective handling of Covid-19 and recovery from the crisis. The Global Covid-19 Index (GCI), published yesterday (July 28), gave…

(Reuters) - A World Health Organization official on Tuesday described the Covid-19 pandemic as “one big wave” and warned against complacency in the northern hemisphere during summer since the…

The case of a Singaporean caught spying for China in the United States has reawakened fears over China recruiting intelligence assets on an island state which has won trust among Western…

(Express) - In a show of force against the US and its allies, the Chinese military is conducting a nine-day live-fire training exercise in the disputed South China Sea. The “live-fire target…

(Reuters) - Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus at the weekend, the government…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said there will be no more war as the country's nuclear weapons guarantee its safety and future despite unabated outside pressure and military threats, state…

(Vietnam News) - Fifteen Japanese firms chose Vietnam as the destination for their production expansion within the Japanese government’s programme to support Japanese firms to diversify their…

(CNA) - The United States has doubled its investment - to nearly US$1 billion - to expedite development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine by American firm Moderna, which on Monday (Jul 27) begins…

(BBC) - North Korea has reported what it describes as the country's first suspected case of coronavirus. State news agency KCNA said a person who defected to South Korea three years ago last…

(SCMP) - News of a Singaporean  man being charged in the US for spying for Chinese intelligence was widely discussed on social media among the city state’s residents on Saturday, with concerns…

(Bernama) - Vietnam confirmed a new COVID-19 case in the community on Saturday after going through nearly 100 days without any local cases, Xinhua news agency reported citing Vietnam News Agency.…

(NST) - Governments are fast losing support for their handling of the coronavirus outbreak from a public that widely believes death and infection figures to be higher than statistics show, a…

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed four executive orders aimed at lowering the prices Americans pay for prescription drugs, as he faces an uphill re-election battle and…

(BBC) - The US and UK have accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit. The US State Department described the recent use of…