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Chubu Electric Power's earthquake data scandal at the Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka Prefecture involved more than selecting a favorable calculation. Investigators found that the company chose a seismic wave…
The Indus Waters Treaty requires India and Pakistan to exchange daily river measurements, reservoir releases and canal withdrawals. It also says the agreement can be modified or terminated only through…
A US submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena off southern Sri Lanka on March 4, 2026, leaving Sri Lankan rescuers to recover 87 bodies and bring 32 survivors ashore.…
Sri Lanka is withholding immediate assistance to 19 Iranian vessels reported to be running short of food, drinking water and fuel near its coast, while continuing to feed and protect…
Two Indian seafarers remained missing after the tanker MT PETRO DOLPHIN was attacked at Sohar Anchorage off northern Oman on October 11, 2026. Nine other Indian crew members were rescued…
Japan has pledged to continue supporting the International Criminal Court after the United States announced sanctions against the institution itself on October 9, moving beyond earlier measures against individual judges…
Four natural gas fields in Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan province are producing about 650,000 cubic metres a day, according to Afghan Gas Enterprise head Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. Two major customers receive about 600,000 cubic metres between them: the state owned Mazar-i-Sharif Fertiliser and Power Company takes…
Thailand's Progressive Social Security Team led the races for all seven insured worker seats and all seven employer seats on the Social Security Board late on October 11, 2026. At…
Alleged monthly payments exceeding 177,000 baht, four unanswered enforcement notices and a police inspection roughly two hours before a raid are at the centre of an investigation into OK Bar,…
Mongolia has contracted to buy 78,000 tonnes of fuel from Russia for October after two months in which gasoline imports fell well below normal consumption. The agreement, announced by Industry…
The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of killing 39-year-old Anna Yagi has brought Okinawa's residents, governor and assembly into a widening confrontation with Tokyo and the American military…
Timor-Leste and Australia have reached agreement at the technical level on three documents governing the Greater Sunrise petroleum project, moving negotiations toward domestic approval while leaving the development concept and…
Sri Lanka's Parliament passed the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill on October 8, 2026, with amendments and without a vote, bringing together two contested objectives: increasing financial penalties for corruption and changing…
The September 28, 2026, bombing of Kyauktaw's India Market and the nearby Kissapanadi Bridge killed at least 50 people and injured at least 58, according to the Arakan Army and…
Timor-Leste submitted its proposed US$2,568,500,000 General State Budget for 2027 to the National Parliament on October 1, 2026, a day after the Council of Ministers approved it. The proposal combines…
Thai police arrested 11 foreign nationals after searching 17 locations across four luxury housing developments in an investigation involving 94 houses, 95 companies and properties valued at about 6 billion…
Workers at Micron Technology's Taoyuan operations in Taiwan have authorized a strike by an overwhelming margin, putting pressure on the American memory chipmaker to negotiate a permanent system for sharing…
A fire aboard the MV June Aster off Coron in the Philippine province of Palawan has left 76 people dead, with the latest accounting listing 44 survivors and 12 people…
Nine people were reported killed across Manipur's Kamjong, Kangpokpi and Ukhrul districts during violence on October 9 and 10, 2026, as gunfights and arson struck villages and a civilian travelling…
Afghanistan's supply crisis has moved from stranded containers to empty nutrition clinics. On June 4, 2026, World Food Programme Acting Executive Director Carl Skau said an additional 2.3 million people…
Toufique Imrose Khalidi, the editor in chief and managing director of bdnews24.com, was buried at the Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Mirpur around 5:00pm on Saturday, October 10, 2026. He was…
South Korean police are investigating the renewed circulation of hospital surveillance footage on overseas pornography websites after a lawmaker identified 80 videos showing patients receiving treatment, undergoing procedures and changing…
A mob burned the home and adjoining clinic of Kamran Gill Masih in Gharial Kalan village near Narang Mandi, in Pakistan's Sheikhupura district, after he was accused of sharing blasphemous…
Discovery Loop, the artificial intelligence company founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Vietnamese scientist Le Viet Quoc, is reportedly seeking financing at a valuation of about $50…
Taiwan's semiconductor packaging and testing companies are raising prices as increasingly complex AI chips occupy testing equipment for longer and cloud companies introduce more custom processors. Industry accounts describe increases…
Hong Kong plans to build a large electricity receiving station in Area 132 of Tseung Kwan O, bringing more nuclear and renewable power from mainland China into the city as…
South Korean police have expanded their investigation into a financial sector hacking campaign that reportedly exposed information on about 66,000 individuals and 2,200 corporate records. Investigators suspect attackers used ARTEX,…
South Korea's central bank and three state lenders recorded 1,024,478 hacking attempts between January and September 2026, exceeding the 934,858 attempts detected throughout 2025 by 89,620, or 9.6%. The institutions…
A recruitment examination for 242 assistant upazila youth development officer posts in Bangladesh was postponed shortly before its scheduled 11:00 am start on October 10, 2026, after officials found that questions circulating on social media partially matched the examination paper. About 319,000 candidates were expected…
Floods have inundated 16,310 homes across five Vietnamese localities, with Thanh Hoa and Ninh Binh accounting for more than four fifths of the total. A disaster assessment recorded three deaths…
A fire that swept from land into a residential area in Dusun Serdang, South Bangka, on October 10, 2026, affected 305 homes and 1,800 people, according to a preliminary provincial…
Mount Kanlaon sent an ash plume five to six kilometers above its summit crater during a moderately explosive eruption on Saturday, October 10, prompting ashfall warnings across Negros Occidental and…
China's National Climate Center and National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center announced on October 9, 2026, that a super El Niño had formed in September, after just five months of rapid…
Malaysia faces renewed pressure to pass a transboundary haze law after Health Ministry surveillance figures cited by lawyer Vivekananda Sukumaran showed asthma cases rising 259% and upper respiratory tract infections…
Central Asian water officials approved withdrawal limits for the Amu Darya and Syr Darya for the 2026–2027 season outside the main crop growing period, as Uzbekistan pressed for better measurements,…
Nepal estimates it needs US$4.78 billion to recover from the August 26, 2026 Himalayan floods, with almost all of that money required for reconstruction beyond the first six months. The…
Australia's High Court has dismissed MACH Energy's appeal over the Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion by a 3–2 majority, leaving its approval invalid because New South Wales planning authorities failed…
Two Bangladeshis were killed and 24 injured in the October 10, 2026 missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, according to Bangladesh's embassy. The injured included 11 workers…
Malaysia plans to allocate RM935 million to tourism and culture in 2027, raise the shopping allowance for qualifying visitors to Langkawi and Labuan to RM10,000, and expand transport connections in…
China recorded 826 million domestic tourist trips and 738.375 billion yuan in tourism spending during its October 1 to 7, 2026 National Day holiday, according to figures released by the…
The rebuilt Huanggang Port opened at 6:30 a.m. on October 12, 2026, with a new clearance system intended to cut the time needed to complete Hong Kong and Shenzhen immigration…
Indonesia began reopening five airports after midnight on Tuesday, following a volcanic eruption that disrupted almost 3,000 flights and left more than 340,000 passengers stranded across the country.…
Alex Eala will begin her 2026 Wuhan Open campaign against Chinese qualifier Han Shi on Monday, October 12, returning to competition after winning an Asian Games bronze medal in Japan.…
Teruaki Sato finished the 2026 Central League season with a .306 batting average, 39 home runs and 106 runs batted in, becoming the ninth player in Japanese professional baseball history…
Abhishek Sharma reached 2,000 runs in Twenty20 internationals in a reported record 1,024 balls, then completed an 18-ball half-century as India beat West Indies by 14 runs at Holkar Stadium…
Rohit Paudel scored 101 from 127 balls as Nepal defeated Canada by 24 runs at Al Amerat Cricket Ground in Oman on October 11, 2026, moving into sixth place in…
Marc Marquez won the Indonesian MotoGP Sprint in 19 minutes 37.125 seconds on Saturday, October 10, 2026, turning a two point championship deficit into a four point lead after Jorge…
Fariba Hashimi won silver in the women's road race at the Aichi Nagoya Asian Games on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, becoming the first Afghan woman to earn an Asian Games…
Shohei Ohtani moved closer to the pitching machine late in an extended workout at American Family Field in Milwaukee, an unusual adjustment aimed at preparing for Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski…
Cambodia finished second in the FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026 Division 2 after Hong Kong won the final 2-0 at Kai Tak Stadium in Kowloon on Saturday, October 3. Matthew Orr…
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) lists a total certification time limit of 48 days, including seven days to scrutinise applications, 15 days to form an examining committee and…
ByteDance’s Red Fruit short drama app reached 168 million daily active users in July 2026, up 107% from a year earlier, exceeding the combined daily totals reported for Tencent Video,…
Hà An Huy and Đinh Mạnh Ninh received the Chiến tướng của năm award at the October 10 finale of Anh trai vượt ngàn chông gai 2026, as the Vietnamese…
BTS leader RM asked fans to stop gathering outside the group's hotel during its October 7, 9 and 10, 2026, concerts in Lima, saying noise reached the bedrooms and prevented…
China's cinemas earned 1.165 billion yuan during the October 1 to 7, 2026 National Day holiday, with 31.9959 million admissions, according to the China Film Administration. Crime drama Traces of…
BLACKPINK's debut music video Boombayah has surpassed 1.9 billion views on YouTube, becoming the first music video for a K-pop group's debut song to reach that figure. The achievement gives…
Drishyam: The Conclusion collected an estimated Rs. 25.50 crore in India on its ninth day, taking its domestic nett total to Rs. 277 crore. A separate trade estimate puts the…
Mammootty and Kartik Aaryan shared the Best Actor honour, Yami Gautam won Best Actress, and veteran actor Anant Nag received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the reported 72nd National Film…