Thailand and Cambodia's leaders are due to meet for peace talks on Monday, as a festering territorial dispute along their shared frontier dragged into a fifth day of open combat.

The rally organized by opposition parties marked the first major protest in Southeast Asia's sixth-largest economy since Anwar was propelled to power after general elections in 2022.

With the “Down with Ishiba” movement showing no signs of easing, the window for the prime minister to decide on his own is steadily shrinking.

Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday, as the death toll from their bloodiest fighting in years rose to 33 and Phnom Penh called for an "immediate ceasefire.

Taiwanese voters turned out at schools, temples and community centers on Saturday to cast their ballots in a high-stakes recall election that could give President Lai Ching-te's party control of the parliament.

A long-running border dispute erupted into intense fighting with jets, artillery, tanks and ground troops on Thursday, prompting the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis Friday.

Indonesia is closely monitoring the escalating border tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, expressing confidence that both ASEAN member states would resolve the dispute peacefully in accordance with international law.

More than 138,000 people have been evacuated from Thailand's border regions, its health ministry said, reporting 15 fatalities -- 14 civilians and a soldier -- with a further 46 wounded, including 15 troops.

Tensions were reignited in May following the killing of a Cambodian soldier during a brief exchange of gunfire, which escalated into a full-blown diplomatic crisis and now has triggered armed clashes.

Thailand's army said three civilians were wounded in a Cambodian rocket strike on Thursday as the two countries' militaries clashed again in an escalating row over a disputed border.

In a closed-door meeting on Tuesday between the defense minister and the SAF chief in Jakarta, the neighboring countries agreed to enhance cooperation across all military domains, including cyber defense, with a view to maintaining stability in Southeast Asia amid an increasingly fraught global landscape.

The case was brought by a transgender man, known as "K", who was encouraged by doctors to use men's public bathrooms as part of his gender dysphoria treatment.

Brussels says China's deepening political and economic relations with Russia since the 2022 invasion represent tacit support for Moscow that have helped its economy weather sweeping Western sanctions. China denies the claims.

While voicing strong support for Cambodia’s anti-scam crackdown, which netted 339 Indonesian nationals in a recent raid, the government has emphasized its duty to protect citizens abroad, including trafficking victims forced to work at scam centers across the region.

Rather than cracking down on critical voices from grassroots communities, ASEAN should include voices and insights from non-state actors to help the bloc navigate its recent geopolitical challenges, a former deputy foreign minister said.

Sanseito's agenda comes straight from the copybook of right-wing movements such as US President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again", the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Nigel Farage's Reform party in Britain.

Bangkok has previously said it has never recognized the court's jurisdiction on the issue and prefers to settle the dispute through bilateral mechanisms.

Many of the victims were young students who had just been let out of class when a Chinese-made F-7 BJI aircraft slammed into the Milestone School and College.

An Indonesian social media influencer sentenced to seven years in prison in Yangon for terrorism-related charges has been granted amnesty by Myanmar and allowed to return home over the weekend, following months of diplomatic efforts by the Foreign Ministry.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa will visit China on Thursday and meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday.

All passengers and crew members have since disembarked, Air India said, without saying whether anyone was injured. Air India flight AI2744 had flown from Kochi in southern Kerala state to Mumbai.

Experts and analysts gathering at the BRICS forum on think tanks and the media in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro late last week applauded the club of 11 emerging nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, for its ability to remain united and claimed that its consensus-based decision-making process could be a saving grace in a world that is becoming more conflicted. 

Marcos will be the first Southeast Asian leader to meet Trump in his second term.

Voters angry at inflation turned to other parties, notably the "Japanese first" Sanseito, which made strong gains with its "anti-globalist" drive reminiscent of US President Donald Trump's agenda.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has governed Japan almost continuously since 1955.

The United Nations has described Southeast Asia as the "ground zero" of cybercrime centers, where workers typically use romance or business cons to defraud web users of an estimated US$40 billion annually.

Trump nominated right-wing commentator Nick Adams, known for his outspoken views and strong pro-Israel stance, as ambassador to multicultural, Muslim-majority Malaysia a week ago.

Birthed on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party, Sanseito, is widening its appeal with a 'Japanese First' campaign ahead of Sunday's upper house vote.

Thaksin faces up to 15 years in prison if he is convicted in the closed-door trial in Bangkok, where he stands accused of breaching strict lese majeste laws that shield Thailand's royal family from abuse and criticism.

Aviation experts have said a preliminary report from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) raised questions over whether one of the pilots of Air India flight 171 cut off fuel to the Boeing 787's engines seconds after takeoff, leading to an irrecoverable situation.