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Asia & Pacific

Australian state passes tougher gun, anti-terror laws after Bondi Beach shooting

The New South Wales state parliament passed the terrorism and other legislation amendment bill early morning after the upper house approved the bill by 18 votes to eight.

15 hours ago
Asia & Pacific

Chinese envoy urges Thailand-Cambodia to resume ceasefire as soon as possible

China supports ASEAN's mediation efforts and is willing to once again create conditions and provide a platform for dialogue and negotiations between the two sides, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday. ...

1 day ago
Asia & Pacific

Cambodia says Thailand attacks after ASEAN meet on border clashes

Just hours after the regional crisis talks were held in Malaysia, Cambodia's defense ministry said the Thai military deployed fighter jets to bomb areas of Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces. ...

1 day ago

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Asia & Pacific

Thailand, Cambodia keep fighting across border ahead of Trump calls

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia entered its fourth day on Thursday as both sides waited for a promised telephone call from United States President Donald Trump, who says he believes he can again end the conflict between the two Southeast Asian nations.

1 week ago
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Prabowo bestowed with highest Pakistani honor in Islamabad

President Prabowo Subianto became the second Indonesian to receive Pakistan's highest civilian honor Nishan-e-Pakistan after former president and his former father-in-law Soeharto, who received the award in 1982.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Trump says to make phone call to stop Thai-Cambodia fighting

Thailand's foreign minister said in an interview on Tuesday that he saw no potential for negotiations in the border conflict, adding the situation was not conducive to third-party mediation, while a top adviser to Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet told Reuters his country was "ready to talk at any time".

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Cambodia pull out of SEA Games in Thailand: Organizers

Cambodia withdrew on Wednesday from the Southeast Asian Games, a Games official said, as a border conflict with hosts Thailand escalated and forced a mass exodus of civilians from both sides of the disputed frontier. 

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

For social media businesses, the implementation marks a new era of structural stagnation as user numbers flatline and time spent on platforms shrinks, studies show.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

US backs Japan in dispute with China over radar incident

The United States has for the first time criticized China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft during a training exercise last week, incidents that the Asian neighbors have given differing accounts of amid escalating tensions.

2 weeks ago
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Prabowo focuses on health on Pakistan trip

President Prabowo Subianto announced on Tuesday that Pakistan has agreed to help bolster Indonesia's health sector and ease its medical worker shortage, as well as intensify trade and other cooperation, in a visit to Islamabad after wrapping up his tour to flood-hit Aceh.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Indonesia tells citizens in Japan to stay vigilant after earthquake

Indonesia has urged its citizens in Japan to remain calm but to remain vigilant after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Aomori prefecture on Monday evening and triggered a tsunami warning.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Major Japan quake injures 30, damages roads

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 30 people were injured in the quake off the coast of the northern Aomori region, which triggered tsunami waves up to 70 centimeters.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Cambodia-Thailand clashes spread on border as toll rises

This week's clashes are the most deadly since the neighboring nations engaged in five days of intense combat in July that killed dozens of people and displaced around 300,000 before a truce took effect.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Thai border clashes kill four Cambodian civilians

"At least four Cambodian civilians were killed in the Thai attacks" in the border provinces of Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear, said Neth Pheaktra, adding that 10 other civilians were wounded.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Anwar calls for restraint between Thai and Cambodian militaries

"We urge both sides to exercise maximum restraint, maintain open channels of communication and make full use of the mechanisms in place," Anwar, the chair of the regional bloc ASEAN, said in a post on X. 

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

How Thailand-Cambodia conflict went from Trump-backed ceasefire to airstrikes

MAY 28, 2025: Cambodia's defence ministry says one of its soldiers is killed after a brief exchange of gunfire with Thai soldiers at a disputed border area, the first such deadly clash since 2011.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Australia activates disaster relief for wildfire-hit New South Wales state

Australia on Sunday activated disaster relief for residents impacted by wildfires that have burnt properties, infrastructure and thousands of hectares of bushland in the country's most populous state.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Hong Kong election turnout in focus amid anger over deadly fire

Hong Kong's citizens votes on Sunday in an election where the focus is on turnout, with residents grieving and traumatized after the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years and the authorities scrambling to avoid a broader public backlash.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Sri Lanka unveils cyclone aid plan as rains persist

The government has confirmed 607 deaths, with another 214 people missing and feared dead, in what President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called the country's most challenging natural disaster.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific premium

One Indonesian missing as Hong Kong blaze death toll climbs

A total of 129 Indonesian citizens have been confirmed as survivors of the fire, according to the ministry’s latest data, with nine dead and one still receiving hospital treatment. 

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Xi woos Macron with sightseeing trip, but little in the way of deals

Even when US President Donald Trump made a landmark visit to China early during his first term in 2017, and Xi lavished him with a private dinner within Beijing's Forbidden City, the trip was confined to the Chinese capital. 

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific premium

RI, OZ, PNG boost defense ties in first trilateral

Closer military engagement among the three neighboring countries will carry meaningful weight for regional stability. They pledged to broaden cooperation on shared security priorities and maintain regular dialogue to advance their “collective vision” for the Indo-Pacific.

2 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Australia says it has received AUKUS submarine review from US

President Donald Trump's administration said in June it had launched a formal review  into the AUKUS defence deal - worth hundreds of billions of dollars - that will allow Australia to acquire US nuclear-powered submarines, and also involves Britain.

2 weeks ago
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Twenty-two Indonesians remain missing in Hong Kong fire

Twenty-two Indonesian nationals remain unaccounted for following the massive fire that tore through the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday, as authorities race to identify victims amid widespread devastation.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Malaysia to resume search for long-missing flight MH370

The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in one of aviation's greatest enduring mysteries.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Hong Kong orders judge-led probe into fire that killed 151

Police have arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a criminal inquiry into last week's tragedy, and 12 people have also been arrested in a corruption probe. It is unclear if any of those people were arrested on both counts.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Asia floods toll tops 1,000 as military aid survivors

Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week. Climate change is producing more extreme rain events and turbocharging storms in the region.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Military deployed in Indonesia, Sri Lanka to aid of flood victims

Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Tropical storm deaths cross 500 in Southeast Asia

Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand faced large-scale devastation after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait fuelling heavy rains and wind gusts for a week. There were 336 dead in Indonesia, 170 in Thailand, and two deaths reported in Malaysia.

3 weeks ago
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Indonesia must be architect of next world order: Forum

Indonesia must step up as a key architect of the next world order rather than be a bystander, foreign policy experts said on Saturday as the world enters a period of unprecedented change, marked by shifting power dynamics and the need for new multilateral solutions to global challenges.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Anwar faces electoral setback as allies fall in Sabah state polls

Anwar's Pakatan Harapan coalition won just one of the 20 seats it contested in Sabah, down from the seven it held previously in the eastern state on Borneo island.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Hong Kong blaze spotlights enduring role of city's foreign domestic helpers

Among people who died in the Wang Fuk Court housing complex fire are some of the city's 368,000 foreign domestic helpers, mostly women contracted from low-income Asian countries like the Philippines and Indonesia, who live with their employers, often in cramped spaces.

3 weeks ago
Asia & Pacific

Hong Kong mourns victims of blaze that killed at least 128

The fire started on Wednesday afternoon and rapidly engulfed seven of the eight 32-storey blocks at the complex, which were wrapped in bamboo scaffolding and green mesh and layered with foam insulation for the renovations.

3 weeks ago

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