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The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is demanding an explanation from Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad over a proposal to exempt liquid nicotine from the Poisons List again, months after the Kuala…
Malaysia has received no new formal extradition request from India for Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and has made no commitment to hand him over, Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said…
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will visit Nepal on November 4 and 5 to prepare for Prime Minister Balendra Shah's proposed trip to India, with Kathmandu seeking flood reconstruction money,…
China is sending three senior diplomatic representatives to seven countries across the Middle East, the Red Sea region and the Horn of Africa in early and mid-November, widening a peace…
North Korea said it tested a strategic cruise missile carrying a cluster warhead on November 2, 2026, claiming the weapon could devastate a target area of roughly 5 to 6…
Britain imports 4,482 categories of goods from China. A parliamentary investigation identifies 3,380 of them as belonging to supply chains vulnerable to disruption and 911 as critical to the UK.…
South Korea's consumer inflation slowed to 2.8% in October 2026, but a government estimate shows how much the result depended on intervention: without the petroleum price cap, inflation would have reached about 3.6%. Petroleum prices still jumped 14.9% from a year earlier, while falling agricultural…
Britain's revised settlement plans would make an estimated 517,000 migrants wait longer for permanent residence, while preserving the existing five years for qualifying care workers who entered or switched into…
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants a path toward Japan's first constitutional amendment to be in sight by February 21, 2027. Yet as the Constitution marked 80 years since its promulgation…
Australia's High Court began hearing a challenge to the country's social media age restrictions on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, with Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project arguing that preventing children…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has promised a 20% reservation in state recruitment for Agniveers returning after four years of military service, with appointments without an examination. Speaking on…
Armenia's Parliament approved a framework agreement with the United States on October 28, 2026, giving political backing to a transport project through southern Armenia that would connect mainland Azerbaijan with…
Japan's government and ruling coalition are considering spending ¥70 trillion to ¥80 trillion on defense over five years beginning in April 2027, a sharp increase that would bring new purchases,…
Nvidia's agreement to build a headquarters on about 3.9 hectares in Taipei's Beitou-Shilin Technology Park is facing a dispute over how it happened. An unnamed person familiar with the company's…
MANILA, Philippines: Thirteen people whose bodies bore gunshot wounds were recorded as having died from illnesses, including pneumonia, stroke and sepsis, according to findings flagged by forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun.…
Nilofar, a 28 year old Afghan entrepreneur and mother of three now living in Warsaw, says she survived two Taliban assassination attempts before fleeing Afghanistan in August 2021. One attack…
A woman and her husband in Bontang, East Kalimantan, admitted inventing a pregnancy and a baby's death after a funeral bundle was found to contain a pillow and a pink…
Uzbekistan has ordered negotiations to secure recognition of pension rights earned by its citizens abroad, with Russia, Germany, Japan and South Korea among the priority countries. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev gave…
Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand are allegedly being asked to pay about 6,000 baht each in income tax to Myanmar's military government while obtaining identity documents needed for legal employment.…
Germany requested 45,000 specialists from Uzbekistan in 2026, yet only 2,000 Uzbek citizens secured jobs there, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev told a November 2 meeting on labor migration. The shortage of…
Dhaka launched a new system for operating buses on six main routes on November 1, 2026, bringing services previously run under about 18 company banners into six designated companies. The…
Xu Chenghong expected perhaps 10 to 20 local people to answer his online wedding invitation. Instead, thousands travelled to his corner of Yunnan province, bringing food, household appliances, wedding cars…
Taiwan's Transportation Safety Board is urging authorities to require reports whenever a power bank smokes or catches fire on public transport, after gathering records of 17 incidents between January 2024…
Apple reported $114.48 billion in revenue for the quarter ended September 26, 2026, and forecast its biggest holiday quarter yet, but rising memory costs and a weaker profit margin outlook…
Meta says its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses stop recording when their white warning light is covered, and that physically damaging or modifying the light disables the camera.…
Samsung is reportedly preparing to release its first Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses in South Korea and the United States in mid-December 2026, several weeks later than an earlier November target.…
Qwen AI Office sold 100,000 individual monthly memberships in about 30 minutes on November 2, 2026, after Chinese livestreaming star Li Jiaqi introduced the product on his shopping channel. The…
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3: Malaysia is preparing government departments, financial institutions and essential services for possible cyberattacks after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told Parliament that intelligence assessments placed…
South Korea plans to reduce new awards in a major basic research programme from 2,438 to 1,595, a fall of 34.6%, even as the government proposes an 11.2% increase in total research and development spending. The loss of 843 grants would narrow a funding route…
Meteorologist Binod Pokhrel has warned that smoke from crop residue burning in India could worsen Nepal's air pollution if winds carry it across the border, as pollution rises in the…
The share of Yellow River Basin monitoring sections with good water quality rose from 59.1 percent in 2016 to 93.2 percent in 2025, according to the Yellow River Conservancy Commission…
Hanoi residents from officially recognised poor households could receive up to VND 20 million each to replace a petrol or diesel motorbike with an electric vehicle, under a payment procedure…
Lahore recorded an Air Quality Index of 535 at 8am on Monday, November 2, 2026, as fine particle pollution reached 343 micrograms per cubic metre. The reading, recorded by IQAir…
Malaysia has recorded 1,293 landslides since 2021 and identified 1,577 slopes in critical condition, according to Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Seri Nor Hisham Mohammad. Prolonged rain during the…
Delhi's air quality index reached 307 at 7.05 am on Monday, November 2, 2026, entering the very poor category for the first time this season just six days before Diwali.…
Andhra Pradesh authorities planned to evacuate about 30,000 people as Cyclone Murasu approached India's eastern coast, with the India Meteorological Department forecasting landfall near Ongole between 11:30 p.m. on November…
Hong Kong recorded an average temperature of 27.4 degrees Celsius in October 2025, its highest October reading since records began in 1884, according to figures the Hong Kong Observatory announced…
Sri Lanka welcomed 168,625 tourists in October 2026, setting a record for the month as India supplied 37% of arrivals. Yet the stronger visitor count came alongside a weaker financial…
Japan's Narita airport plans to bring its three terminals together into a single terminal in the 2030s, alongside runway work expected to increase annual flight capacity from 340,000 to 500,000…
A technical fault in a Nepal Army helicopter at Surkhet has delayed efforts to evacuate six Indian tourists stranded by heavy snowfall at Danigad, in Ward 8 of Shey Phoksundo…
Malaysians aged 18 and above will be able to choose a passport valid for five or 10 years through MyOnline Passport from November 2, extending an option that had been…
Kazakhstan will begin introducing electronic travel authorizations on November 1, 2026, at Aktau International Airport and four road border crossings, before making the permits compulsory for eligible travelers on July…
Taiwan defeated Mexico 12-2, 2-8, 7-2 in the baseball5 semifinals at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, setting up a gold medal match against Cuba on Tuesday, November 3. The…
India and Pakistan's scheduled meeting at the 2027 Men's Cricket World Cup has attracted 8,397,294 ticket requests, according to the International Cricket Council, for a match at Johannesburg's Wanderers stadium,…
The Football Association of Thailand has ordered evidence collection and a disciplinary review after Kanchanaburi Power manager Park Hang-seo and Madagascar player John Baggio allegedly faced racist abuse following a…
Alex Eala climbed to No. 17 in the Women's Tennis Association singles rankings on November 2, 2026, reaching a new career best before her final WTA Tour tournament of the…
Taiwanese pitcher Teng Kai-wei finished his first season with the Houston Astros with 73 strikeouts in 73 2/3 innings, career highs that helped carry him past 100 strikeouts in Major…
Japan's Mao Shimada won her first senior Grand Prix event at Skate Canada International in Kelowna, British Columbia, scoring 235.44 points to set the highest women's total of the season.…
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters approved Hiromi Ito's bid to move to Major League Baseball on November 1, 2026, starting the posting application process for a pitcher who won the Sawamura…
India's D Gukesh and Uzbekistan's Javokhir Sindarov will meet in Geneva for the youngest World Chess Championship contest in history, with the first game scheduled for November 24. Both will…
Tomokazu Morikawa will provide the Japanese voice of Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, opening in Japan and the United States on Friday, December 18, 2026. Marvel's November…
The Bombay High Court has granted interim copyright protection to Ramayana: Part 1, ordering action against unauthorised recordings, uploads and streams ahead of its worldwide cinema release on November 5,…
Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show welcomed 219,546 attendees from 113 countries to Bangkok from October 29 to November 1, 2026, while its business programme grew faster than its exhibitor…
EXO members Kai and Sehun will release their first mini album together in December, SM Entertainment confirmed on November 2. The announcement gives the pair, both born in 1994 and…
Bocchi the Rock! will return to cinemas in 2027 with a story set before Kessoku Band existed. Eiga Bocchi the Rock! Hoshi no Ashiato, whose title translates as Bocchi the…
Pokémon Center BANGKOK will open on December 1, 2026, on the sixth floor of centralwOrld in Bangkok, bringing Thailand its first official Pokémon Center. Pokémon Thailand says the branch will…
Lisa's Halloween transformation on October 31, 2026, put a Thai fashion label at the center of an elaborate aquatic fantasy. The BLACKPINK singer appeared as a Dark Siren, wearing a…
The Weeknd has arrived in Kuala Lumpur ahead of concerts at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil on November 4 and 5, with Rapid KL extending selected rail services to…