(NST) - Heavily armed police were in a standoff Monday with a disgruntled former security guard who took at least 30 people hostage in a Philippines shopping mall.
Workers and customers…
(NST) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday that two Indonesians have tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in the world’s fourth most…
(SCMP) - Saudi Arabia on February 27, 2020, stopped issuing entry visas to foreign pilgrims heading to Mecca and Medina, two of Islam's holiest cities. There are fears that the deadly coronavirus…
(ST) - The Thai government survived a no-confidence motion in Parliament yesterday following four days of intense censure debate targeting six top government officials, including Prime Minister…
(NST) - The World Health Organization on Friday raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to its highest level after the epidemic spread to sub-Saharan Africa and caused financial…
(ST) - A troop of special Chinese ducks is waiting to be deployed to neighbouring Pakistan to fight a swarm of crop-eating pests that threaten regional food security.
At least 100,000 ducks are…
(Aljazeera) - New Delhi is reeling from days of violence, described as some of the worst the Indian capital has suffered in decades.
Dozens of people have been killed and more than 200 were…
(TheStar) - A 'soft groundbreaking' and early construction on Indonesia’s new capital city in East Kalimantan may take place in July, the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) announced…
(Reuters) - Governments ramped up measures on Thursday to battle a looming global pandemic of the coronavirus as the number of infections outside China, the source of the outbreak, for the first…
(ST) - More new coronavirus cases are being reported outside China than inside it, with Italy and Iran in particular seeing their outbreaks spread to nearby countries.…
Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended visas for pilgrims wishing to visit Makkah over Covid-19 coronavirus fears, the foreign ministry said.
(NST) - The government is "suspending entry to the…
(BBC) - Delhi remains on edge after the third consecutive night of rioting, with reports of Muslim homes and shops being targeted by violent mobs.
Twenty-one people have been killed so far in…
(Reuters) - The United States told Americans on Tuesday to begin preparing for coronavirus to spread within the country as outbreaks in Iran, South Korea and Italy escalated and fears that the…
(TheStar) - The government has rejected as “groundless” the recent accusation by the dissolved Future Forward Party of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha being involved in the 1Malaysia Development…
(SCMP) - Iran has been thrust to the forefront of rising global concern about the spread of the novel coronavirus after reporting by far the most deaths of any country apart from China.
Iranian…
(Al Jazeera) - South Korea has raised its disease alert to the highest level after a surge in coronavirus infections and two more deaths, while Chinese state media warned the outbreak had yet to…
(SCMP) - A fresh stand-off over energy exploration in the disputed South China Sea that involves Malaysia, China and Vietnam has been brewing for weeks out of the public eye, a Washington-based…
(TheStar) - A banned Thai opposition party on Sunday (Feb 23) accused the former military junta of helping cover up Malaysia's multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, urging Thais to demand the truth…
(NST)- New Covid-19 coronavirus cases surged across the Middle East on Friday, after a rapid spread in Iran, where authorities say the death toll from the virus has hit four, prompting alarm and…
(BBC) - People around the world have rallied behind a nine-year-old Australian boy after a video of his deep distress over being bullied went viral.
Yarraka Bayles posted the clip of her son,…
(TheStar) - China, together with some other countries, has been removed from the United States' list of 'developing' nations and considered as a 'developed' country when it comes to international…
(TheGuardian) - A gunman killed nine people in two apparently racially motivated shootings at shisha bars in the German town of Hanau, police said. The suspect then killed himself, according to…
(Forbes) - The descriptor “skull-breaker” usually implies a bad ending. A skull-breaker date. A skull-breaker job interview. A skull-breaker spa visit. These typically are not good things.
So…
(CNA) - A fugitive Malaysian financier wanted over a massive graft scandal has been spotted in the city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, police said, although it was unclear if he had…
(FMT) - Thousands of containers of frozen pork, chicken and beef are piling up at some major Chinese ports as transport disruptions and labour shortages slow operations, people familiar with the…
(TheStar) - Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy has suggested the country’s rich people should marry those from low-income families, arguing that such cross-class…
(CNA) - Two passengers from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo have died and 29 people were in a serious condition, the Japanese government said on Thursday (Feb 20), as a second…
(TheSunDaily) - Police in China have arrested a prominent activist who had been a fugitive for weeks and criticised President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic while in hiding, a…
(FMT) - Facebook on Tuesday blocked the page of an anti-government website in Singapore following a demand from authorities but slammed the “disproportionate” use of a controversial law against…
(ST) - A man killed his former wife and wounded another person at a shopping centre in Bangkok yesterday, police said, 10 days after a mass shooting at another mall in Thailand's north-east.…