(SCMP) - Mass protests seem to be breaking out all over the place, from Hong Kong to Santiago, Tehran, Bolivia, Catalonia, Ecuador, France, Iraq and Lebanon. There are many local reasons for these…

(FMT) - Indonesia is preparing to spend about US$40 billion to extend Jakarta’s metro network, a bigger-than-expected outlay that’s poised to boost the country’s construction companies and…

(Nikkei) - The opening of a new bridge between Thailand and Myanmar has pushed Southeast Asia one step closer to the realization of an East-West Economic Corridor, connecting the South China Sea…

China warned Wednesday that a “price must be paid” after the US House of Representatives passed legislation seeking sanctions against senior Chinese officials over the crackdown on mainly Muslim…

Australia bans foreign donations over A$1,000 (US$679), while Canada bars those over C$20 (US$15) and Britain blocks those over £500 (US$646). (SCMP) - New Zealand’s parliament has rushed through…

World’s first car that can fly and drive 'with a top speed of 200mph in the air and 100mph on the ground' will cost of US$599,000 and the first delivery is set for 2021 (Daily Mail) - It has been…

(CNA) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday U.S. legislation backing protesters in Hong Kong did not make trade negotiations with China easier, but added he believes Beijing still…

(Nikkei) - China is ramping up recruitment of Taiwanese talent in semiconductors, attracting top executives and engineers alike to bolster an industry that the U.S. trade war has shown to be a…

(SCMP) - The most outlandish story about the murders of protesters by Hong Kong police has now been debunked. It is but the latest in a series of wild and unfounded allegations made by rioters and…

(ST) - Japan said on Monday (Dec 02) it had agreed to buy an uninhabited island off its southwest coast for US$146 million (S$200 million), eyeing it for US military drills. Tokyo and…

(FMT) - An Indonesian female gymnast training for the SEA Games has been sent home on grounds she was no longer a virgin, her family said on Friday, a claim rejected by officials who insisted it…

(NST) - A man who stabbed two people to death in London and injured three more on Friday before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack, had…

Celebrity has never been easy, but it is particularly difficult for South Korea’s pop stars. The suicides of singers and friends Goo Hara, 28, and Sulli, 25, within six weeks of each other, have…

(CNN) - Asian markets retreated after US President Donald Trump signed a bill supporting Hong Kong protesters, a move that could potentially infuriate Beijing and complicate the US-China…

Keyboard warriors have besieged Wikipedia articles related to the anti-government protests. (Reuters) - Beyond Hong Kong's tear gas-drenched streets and shattered universities, another battle has…

(The Guardian) - The organisers behind the Southeast Asian Games have apologised after complaints emerged of football teams sleeping on floors, airport delays and athletes complaining of going…

(NST) - An Australian grandmother who claimed she was tricked into carrying drugs into Malaysia after falling for an online romance scam Tuesday won her final appeal against the death penalty and…

(CNA) - Soldiers in the southern Philippines rescued a British man and a Filipino woman nearly two months after their capture from members of an militant group, the army said on Monday (Nov 25),…

Australia's domestic spy agency is investigating whether China tried to install an agent in federal parliament in what Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called "deeply disturbing" allegations.…

(NST) - Classified Chinese government documents made public by an international group of journalists describe the repressive inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, in a second rare leak in…

(ST) - The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) Office has issued a correction direction to Progress Singapore Party member Brad Bowyer, in the first use of a law aimed…

(SCMP) - The anti-establishment reverberations from almost six months of street protests swept through polling stations across Hong Kong on Sunday, as voters in record numbers roundly rejected…

(CNA) - On July 18, US President Donald Trump approved the biggest arms sale to Taiwan since the start of his Presidency almost 3 years ago. The $2.2 billion in arms deal includes the sale of…

(SCMP) - A former CIA case agent was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for an espionage conspiracy with China. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria,…

(FMT) - US Navy warships twice sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea in the past few days, the US military told Reuters yesterday, at a time of heightened tension between the…

(NST) - A Malaysian, Abd Helmi Ab Halim, who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2017, was hanged today at Changi Prison. The execution was confirmed by Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) advisor N.…

(ST) - Convicted Malaysian terrorist Yazid Sufaat, who acquired 4 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in 2000 in preparation for a foiled bombing plot in Singapore, has been freed from prison, sources told…

(FMT) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will stop the importation of electronic cigarette products to the country and prohibit their use in public places. “I will ban it, the use…

(CNA) - Murder disguised as suicide. A secret massacre at a subway station. Impending "terrorist" attacks: False news online is amplifying fear and confusion in Hong Kong as months of unrest turns…