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China won the women's team final at the 2026 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships by just 0.233 points on October 21 in Rotterdam, ending seven consecutive American world titles and securing…
Japan has sent a senior diplomat to Moscow to seek access to Yuki Imai, a Hokkaido Shimbun journalist detained on suspicion of espionage, and demand his immediate release. Russia's Federal…
Eight aircraft, a runway about 2,000 metres long and continuing construction have put a newly opened China-Laos military aviation facility at the centre of a regional security debate. The installation…
Pakistan and the Maldives have agreed to raise annual bilateral trade from $13.9 million to $200 million within two years, setting a steep commercial target alongside 20 agreements covering areas…
North Korea has announced new firepower positions near its border with South Korea and plans to operate propaganda loudspeakers across the boundary during October, as senior officials inspected fortification work…
Vietnam and Denmark established a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in Copenhagen on October 20, 2026, setting out cooperation ranging from offshore wind and artificial intelligence to maritime security, diabetes care and…
India's Central Electricity Authority counted 96 of 191 coal power plants with critically low fuel stocks on October 19, 2026, up from 60 in mid September. Gujarat has asked factories to move production away from the evening electricity peak, bringing the strain on power supplies…
About 100,000 proposed temporary jobs in Bangladesh's government offices are on hold because a revised outsourcing policy allows departments to contract directly with workers, while public procurement legislation lacks a…
A Chinese Communist Party delegation has met nine political parties in Yangon to ask how people in Myanmar view China, as Beijing seeks to protect its influence amid renewed direct…
A high school student playing YOASOBI's song Gunjo at Tainan railway station on October 20 was interrupted by a man singing China's national anthem while livestreaming on his phone. After…
Goshi Hosono faces questions over whether four premises described as contact offices were used for election campaigning in Japan's October 2024 House of Representatives election. His election expense accounts reportedly…
Azerbaijan has barred 31 Turkish citizens from entering the country, including New Welfare Party chairman Fatih Erbakan, DEM Party lawmaker Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu and former football referee Ahmet Cakar. The…
Sri Lanka's proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill faced 36 constitutional petitions by 21 October 2026, after Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne told Parliament he had received copies of 11…
Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul submitted two bills to Parliament on 21 October 2026 that would presume people possessing illegal drugs intend to sell them and extend a detention period…
Students demonstrated across Indonesia on October 20, 2026, as President Prabowo Subianto marked two years in office, demanding cheaper essentials, more jobs and stronger action against forest fires. Police deployed…
Tajikistan received $25.3 million in humanitarian cargo from January through September 2026, a decline of 46.3% from the same period in 2025, according to figures from the Customs Service under…
Bhutan lost about 28% of its yak population between 2020 and 2024. Now herders from Bhutan, India and Nepal are preparing to launch a regional organisation aimed at protecting the…
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament, the Majlisi Namoyandagon, has unanimously approved a migration bill intended to replace the Law on Migration adopted on December 11, 1999. The proposed legislation would…
Tajikistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs is creating a unified police database covering fortune-tellers, people offering sorcery and other occult services, sex workers, people with drug dependence, and some of their…
Sri Lankan authorities arrested 300,218 suspects and conducted 303,017 raids between October 30, 2025, and October 18, 2026, Cabinet spokesperson and Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said in an update on…
A Hong Kong mother reportedly asked her daughter's fiancé for a wedding gift of HK$788,000, saying no additional wedding expenses would be required and that she intended to keep the…
Bangladesh's draft Road Safety Act 2026 would require hospitals and clinics to provide free emergency first aid to road crash victims, protect voluntary rescuers from civil and criminal liability, and…
Bangladesh's government has decided to dismantle stations and lane dividers on the 20.5 kilometre Dhaka–Gazipur Bus Rapid Transit corridor and turn it into a highway with three lanes in each…
Nvidia has introduced DSX POD, a modular AI factory design that puts seven Vera Rubin NVL72 computing racks inside a container for assembly and testing before shipment. The company says…
Ten artificial intelligence agents, starting with empty vocabularies, learned to identify objects for one another with up to 99.76% success after one million interactions in experiments by researchers at Vrije…
Apple plans to add Korean to Siri AI in October 2026, extending an assistant designed to search personal messages, understand what is on a screen and carry out tasks across…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Nvidia plan to jointly invest in dedicated production lines at Sejong and Busan in South Korea, securing package substrates for Nvidia AI computing chips and the network…
Yiwu's markets averaged 294,000 visits a day in the first half of 2026, up 34% from a year earlier, as foreign buyers and tourists explored everything from everyday toys to…
For more than 20 years, students across China have run to a tune whose creator many never knew. Now, an online search by students and other internet users has identified the teacher behind it: Jiang Yanjun of Tangqiao Senior High School in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province.…
Southeast Asia's energy emissions would be about 22% higher in 2050 than in 2024 even under the most ambitious transition scenario in the ninth ASEAN Energy Outlook, exposing a gap…
Sri Lanka recorded 455 wild elephant deaths in 2025, up from 388 in 2024, according to a document tabled in Parliament by Environment Minister Dhammika Patabendi. Elephant attacks also killed…
Bangladesh could have 13.3 million internal climate migrants by 2050, about 7.5% of its population, as rising seas, water shortages and declining agricultural production push people to seek homes and…
The Department of Agriculture has recorded P6.87 billion in El Niño damage across 249,028 hectares, with more than 223,000 farmers affected, as senators press for a response that can protect…
Myanmar faces the prospect of shrinking drinking water supplies, reduced hydropower generation and greater heat related illness as a strengthening El Niño threatens to carry unusually hot and dry conditions…
South Korea's proposed regional industrial zone legislation would limit environmental field investigations to no more than twice a year and generally allow only one additional request to correct assessment documents.…
Hong Kong issued its latest Very Hot Weather Warning of the year on record at 6.45am on Wednesday, October 21, as temperatures reached 36°C in Yuen Long by lunchtime and…
Delhi activated the first stage of its emergency pollution response across the National Capital Region on October 21, 2026, after its Air Quality Index rose from 179 a day earlier…
Star Ferry passengers travelling between Central and Tsim Sha Tsui or between Wan Chai and Tsim Sha Tsui will pay an extra HK$0.60 to HK$1.80 per journey from January 25,…
Foreign visitors spent a record 7.06 trillion yen, about $45 billion, in Japan during January through September 2026, even as arrivals fell 2.9% to 30.73 million. The figures released on…
Thailand's Transport Ministry plans to seek Cabinet approval on October 26, 2026, for fares of 17 to 45 baht per journey across eight rail lines in Bangkok and surrounding areas.…
Kazakhstan plans to expand its international air network to 160 destinations, with an initial push to connect to 30 cities in China and 10 in India. Direct flights to the…
The proposed Bengaluru–Mumbai Vande Bharat Sleeper is targeting a November 1, 2026 launch, with regular services expected from November 2. Its tentative timetable would cut the Bengaluru to Mumbai journey…
Bhutan could receive up to USD 25 million for football development during the 2027 to 2030 cycle, following FIFA President Gianni Infantino's visit on October 19 and 20, 2026. The…
The CTBC Brothers fought back to 4–4 against the Wei Chuan Dragons in the sixth inning of Taiwan Series Game 4 at Taipei Dome on October 21, 2026, after a…
Shohei Ohtani's gray Los Angeles Dodgers jersey from March 18, 2025, has sold for $2,055,700, including the buyer's premium, setting a public auction record for a baseball jersey worn in…
Arafat Minhas scored 59, took six wickets for 40 runs and completed the final run out as Pakistan defeated England by 87 runs at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on October 20,…
Japan retained the men's team title at the 2026 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam on Tuesday, 20 October, scoring 251.928 points to secure its eighth world team gold and…
Bangladesh reached the Begum Khaleda Zia IHF Nations Trophy final with a 33-20 victory over Maldives in Dhaka on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, earning a second meeting with an Indian…
Kim Do-yeong hit a grand slam that matched the KBO postseason distance record and became its youngest player to homer with the bases loaded as the Kia Tigers crushed the…
Sun Yingsha has asked supporters not to organise or promote birthday celebrations in her name, setting a firm boundary before she turns 26 on November 4, 2026. Her October 19…
Ramayana: Part One has passed 100,000 tickets in reported Indian advance sales ahead of its planned November 5, 2026 release, widening an opening booking surge that initially brought around 40,000…
Linda Chung will hold her first solo concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum on March 6, 2027, bringing her touring career back to Hong Kong for a show scheduled to…
TOMORROW X TOGETHER leader Choi Soobin completed scuba diving training during his second visit to the Philippines in 2026, finishing three ocean dives after confronting a fear of deep water.…
Anirudh Ravichander and G.V. Prakash Kumar have sung the Tamil version of Ravana Tandavam for Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana: Part 1, bringing the two composers together as vocalists on the same…
South Korea's Along With the Gods film series is preparing a third installment, with director Kim Yong-hwa returning and filming targeted for the second half of 2027. Dexter Studios announced…
The Sacred Riana has received France's Les Mandrakes d'Or, becoming the first Indonesian magician to receive the honour, according to her announcement. The award adds to an international career that…
TWICE leader Jihyo announced on October 21, 2026, that she had ended her 21 years with JYP Entertainment and established her own agency, EMITHAUS. In a handwritten letter posted on…
A rap video featuring Du Fu, Li Bai and eight other figures from Chinese history and mythology drew more than 1 million likes within a day of release, as its…