China has been seizing control of the South China Sea for years – but its latest aggressive move has backfired. (News Corp Australia) - Indonesia has reacted with anger after Chinese fishing…

(NST) - Pope Francis, who last month angrily slapped the hand of a woman who yanked him toward her, gave a light-hearted reaction more typical of his papacy when a nun asked him for a kiss. He…

(NST) - An Indonesian activist who reported a ban on Christmas celebrations in a conservative Muslim province has been charged under a widely-criticised online hate-speech law, his lawyer said.…

(Express UK) - WORLD WAR 3 fears are rising after US President Donald Trump approved a US-led drone assassination which killed Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani. A digital propaganda expert has…

(Reuters) - Indonesia’s air force deployed four fighter jets to the South China Sea on Tuesday in a stand-off with Beijing after Jakarta protested over a Chinese violation of its exclusive…

Iran fired “more than a dozen” ballistic missiles Tuesday against two airbases in Iraq where US and coalition forces are based, the Pentagon said. (FMT) - “At approximately 5.30pm on Jan 7,…

(Bloomberg) - 2019 will be remembered as a year of protests. Unrest erupted in Hong Kong, India, Chile, Iran, Spain, and many other countries around the globe. But at least one country has…

(BBC) - Iraqi MPs have passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country after the US killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad airport last week.…

(SCMP) - Taiwan’s legislature passed an anti-infiltration law on December 31 to combat the Chinese government’s influence on local politics. The legislation will criminalise political activities…

(Al Jazeera) - The U.S. President has long said he'd pull American troops out of what he called the 'endless wars' in the Middle East. But there are fears Donald Trump may have just laid the…

(CNA) - Indonesia has increased patrols around islands near the disputed South China Sea after a Chinese coast guard vessel "trespassed" into Indonesia's exclusive economic zone, authorities said…

(CNA) - Thai shoppers grabbed baskets, buckets and even a wheelbarrow to skirt a new ban on single-use plastic bags at big retailers, with many posting images of their efforts online. The…

(CNA) - The Australian navy on Friday (Jan 3) began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes…

(Bloomberg) - At least 42 people have died from the New Year’s Day flooding in Indonesia’s greater Jakarta area, and hundreds of thousands were evacuated, according to the government’s disaster…

Soleimani was an enemy of the United States. That’s not a question. The question is this - as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second…

(ST) - Taiwan’s top military chief was killed in a helicopter crash on Thursday (Jan 2), the defence ministry said, just days before the island goes to polls to elect a new president. The chief…

(AFP) - Britain’s minimum wage is to increase by more than four times the rate of UK inflation from next year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced today. A 6.2-per cent increase…

(BBC) - Scores of fires are burning out of control across Australia amid a heatwave that has seen temperatures exceed 40C (104F) in every state. The most dangerous fires on Monday were in the…

(NST) - More than 7,000 Cambodians have lost their jobs and dozens of casinos have been shuttered since a ban on online gambling in August, with more losses expected when the government begins…

Indian mobile operators are losing around 24.5 million rupees in revenue every hour they are forced to suspend internet services on government orders to control protests against a new citizenship…

(Malay Mail) - The Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur sought to defend itself following renewed protests by Muslims against Beijing’s reported inhumane treatment of China’s Uighur Muslims.…

(Reuters) - Iran, China and Russia began joint naval drills on Friday in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman, an Iranian naval spokesman said. Waters around Iran have become a focus for…

(SCMP) - It’s been a good year for Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The Indian tycoon added almost US$18 billion to his wealth, the most in Asia, taking his net worth to US$61.9 billion,…

(NST) - Japanese authorities arrested ruling party lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto on Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes from a company interested in setting up a casino in Japan, Tokyo…

(Telegraph) - Beijing has issued an ominous warning with a new video of the Chinese military engaging in live fire drills as Hong Kong anti-government protests rocked the city over Christmas.…

(ST) - China on Monday (Dec 23) denied allegations that prisoners were being used for forced labour, after a British newspaper reported that a London schoolgirl found a message in a Christmas card…

(CNA) - Thailand has charged two soldiers with murder in the shooting of three Muslim men foraging on a mountain in the south, police said Wednesday (Dec 25), a rare push for justice that one…

(NST) - The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia has labelled as fake, irresponsible and groundless, the news that Muslim minorities in Xinjiang are being placed in concentration…

(FMT) - Five people have been sentenced to death over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but two top figures investigated over the killing have been exonerated, Saudi Arabia’s public…