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South Koreans aged 60 and above accounted for 19.9% of financially vulnerable borrowers in the second quarter of 2026, up from 15% at the end of 2021, according to Bank…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has proposed eliminating 60 posts at the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) while providing an additional $3.2 million for a separate mechanism investigating serious…
A bridge measuring 3,026 metres across the Yalu River is scheduled to open on Thursday, October 15, giving China and North Korea a new route for trucks after more than…
Vietnam and the four countries of the European Free Trade Association are preparing to sign a free trade agreement in Hanoi on Sunday, October 18, 2026, after negotiations that began…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead more than 200 American business leaders to Samarkand during an October 17–22, 2026, trip to Uzbekistan and India, bringing a large commercial…
North Korea has doubled the number of crimes punishable by death in its criminal code from eight to 16 since 2015, according to UN Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón. Separate laws…
The Asian Development Bank has more than $780 million in active sovereign operations in Karakalpakstan, with drinking water, the A380 highway and renewable energy at the centre of its development priorities. At the opening of ADB Days on October 14 at Berdakh Karakalpak State University…
A proposed industrial hub covering 4,000 acres in New Clark City, Tarlac, has placed the Philippines' ambitions for artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing against the land claims of thousands of…
Nepal's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has set out a system for choosing local election candidates that gives internal voting 40 percent of the final score and makes a leadership examination…
Taipei 101 chairwoman Janet Chia attended Taiwan's legislative Finance Committee on October 14, 2026, to answer questions about the business she leads. By evening, her clothing had become the subject…
Maharashtra will transfer Rs 5,000 directly into affected farmers' bank accounts before Diwali, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in Mumbai on October 14, 2026, after the government expanded its drought…
The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is urging Congress to give an independent body binding authority to resolve competing claims over land as lawmakers consolidate 11 pending national land…
The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government and the State Election Commission to complete panchayat elections within three months, while allowing outgoing village heads to continue as…
Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kazuo Yana resigned on October 14, 2026, after controversies over road funding remarks and free bus rides for election supporters threatened to disrupt parliamentary…
Pakistan's Senate Functional Committee on Devolution has demanded an operational system to give provinces an equal share in oil and gas resources, directing the Petroleum Division to consult provincial stakeholders…
Hong Kong's Housing Authority will begin inviting eligible Home Ownership Scheme applicants to choose flats on October 21, with new homes in Kai Tak, Kam Tin, Tseung Kwan O, Ping…
Ho Chi Minh City has approved a housing development at Ba Diem commune with about 37,620 homes, including 29,964 social housing units, and preliminary investment exceeding 64.053 trillion dong. Decision…
Taiwan's Ministry of Labor agreed during legislative negotiations on October 8, 2026, to expand proposed parental leave eligibility to parents or guardians of children under 8. The change would reach…
Human Rights Watch urged France on October 13, 2026, to suspend plans to deport Afghans after the French government confirmed that it had opened technical discussions with Taliban authorities. France's…
India's Union Cabinet approved Rs 53,428 crore on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, to continue its national social assistance programme from 2026-27 to 2030-31, while widening disability pension eligibility and increasing…
Bangladesh has begun collecting household information nationwide for its Family Card programme, with Social Welfare Minister AZM Zahid Hossain setting a target of entering an estimated 44.5 million families into…
More than one in five Filipino families experienced hunger with nothing to eat in the three months preceding September 2026, according to Social Weather Stations (SWS). Its survey conducted from…
In Tajikistan, 8.8% of women aged 20 to 24 married before their 18th birthday, even though 96% of parents and caregivers surveyed say child marriage should stop in their communities.…
Malaysia plans to test its new Cell Broadcast System on November 19, 2026, with compatible mobile phones in selected areas of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Kelantan and Pahang potentially sounding an…
Samsung Electronics plans to invest VND105.79 trillion, about $4.08 billion, in memory chip testing facilities at Yen Binh Industrial Park in Thai Nguyen province, northern Vietnam. The first line is…
Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital, known as Komdigi, is studying how to bring home internet costing around Rp300,000 a month down to a target of Rp100,000 for a connection…
India is preparing a dedicated data centre policy as the government pursues a sector it views as a $200 billion opportunity while seeking to protect ordinary electricity consumers from higher…
DeepSeek accounted for 24.5% of text requests on OpenRouter in the week beginning October 5, 2026, ahead of OpenAI at 18.6% and Google at 17.8%. Yet an Epoch AI estimate…
Bangladesh's 2027 Class 7 textbook will describe Major Ziaur Rahman declaring independence to Bengali soldiers at 2:15 a.m. on March 26, 1971, followed by a radio declaration at 6:30 p.m. on March 27. The revised passage marks another change in how schoolchildren are taught the…
A logistics center in Yongin recorded refrigerant replenishment equivalent to 450,305 tonnes of carbon dioxide between 2021 and 2025, the largest total identified in an analysis of South Korean refrigerant…
Groundwater tests in Nashik's Dattanagar have found chromium at 45 milligrams per litre, 900 times the drinking water limit, while an independent laboratory measured an even higher concentration of 50.5…
Western Singapore recorded an hourly PM2.5 concentration of 288 micrograms per cubic metre at 3pm on October 14, 2026, pushing fine particle pollution into the National Environment Agency's highest band,…
A new mass of smoke from fires in Indonesia's West Papua region is expected to reach Timor-Leste before dawn or early on Friday, October 16, 2026, entering through Lautém, Baucau…
A female reticulated python discovered in Maros, South Sulawesi, in December 2025 has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest wild snake with a verified measurement. Named Ibu…
Ratu was 238 days pregnant and her daughter Delilah was 251 days pregnant when Indonesia announced two expected Sumatran rhino births at Way Kambas National Park in October 2026. Both…
Pakistan's Indus River System Authority (IRSA) has approved a projected 22% irrigation water shortage for Punjab and Sindh during the 2026 to 2027 Rabi season, with reservoir storage entering October…
Ho Chi Minh City is proposing a low emission zone covering its existing central district and Thu Thiem from January 1, 2028, with entry conditions initially targeting taxis, contracted passenger…
Japan Airlines announced on October 14, 2026, that it has ordered 16 Embraer E190-E2 aircraft, with options for another 10, to renew the regional fleet operated by its subsidiary J-AIR.…
Disney Imagination will be the name of Japan's first Disney cruise ship, a vessel of approximately 140,000 gross tons scheduled to begin sailing from Tokyo International Cruise Terminal in spring…
Indian Railways plans to operate about 340,000 regular train trips between October 1 and November 30, 2026, alongside 8,454 special trips notified as of October 13. The arrangements cover the…
Kazakhstan will begin introducing electronic travel authorization at Aktau Airport and four road checkpoints on November 1, 2026, before making it mandatory nationwide on July 1, 2027. The requirement covers…
Seven Japanese railway operators will begin replacing magnetic paper tickets with QR code tickets in spring 2027, changing a familiar station routine from inserting a ticket into a gate to…
Shohei Ohtani will start Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, October 14, despite a career record stretch of 110 plate appearances without a…
Sediqullah Atal batted for 514 minutes and faced 332 deliveries for 111 as Afghanistan saved the Test against Bangladesh at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Set 479 to…
Naoya Inoue has begun preparing for a possible move from the 122 pound super bantamweight division to featherweight, putting a proposed fight with Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez under pressure as their…
South Korea's proposed November football trip to the Middle East faces a security problem extending beyond the stadium: whether its players, staff and supporters can safely reach and leave Saudi…
Lee Kang-in returned to Atlético Madrid's starting lineup as Pablo Barrios scored inside the opening minute and Ademola Lookman added a late second in a 2-0 Champions League victory over…
Sabah secured their first UEFA Champions League league phase victory on October 13, 2026, beating Slavia Prague 2-0 at Baku Olympic Stadium through goals from Kahim Parris in the 49th…
South Korea's Korea Baseball Organization finished its 2026 regular season on October 12 with 12,770,551 spectators across 720 games, while Lotte Giants hitter Victor Reyes delivered four hits in the…
Carlos Yulo heads to Rotterdam with eight World Championships medals, a vault title to defend and a broader assignment: competing across all six men's apparatuses alongside his younger brother, Karl…
Tencent has launched Lüpaopao Duanju, a free short drama service inside WeChat, bringing live action, animated and AI generated series into an app that people already use for messages, payments…
BigBang will return to Singapore's National Stadium on October 17 and 18, 2026, with both concerts starting at 7pm. For fans who last saw the group perform together in the…
YG Entertainment did not approve requests to license Blackpink songs, music videos or Lisa's early trainee footage for Always Lalisa , director Sue Kim says. The refusal left a documentary…
The Weeknd's Hong Kong visit is now listed as four concerts at Kai Tak Stadium on October 24, 25, 30 and 31, 2026, expanding an engagement that initially covered only…
Actors Ha Jung-woo and Cha Jung-won will marry on December 13 in a private ceremony in Seoul, their agencies confirmed on October 14. The announcement comes about eight months after…
Akina Nakamori's first singing performance in an NHK studio in 17 years will feature in a series of three television programs beginning October 24, 2026. The broadcasts will combine footage…
Xiao Zhan's first solo concert tour has drawn 2.04 million expressions of interest for its Nanjing stop on Damai as of the morning of October 14, 2026, before ticket sales…
BTS's fifth studio album, Arirang, has passed 5 billion Spotify streams, putting it approximately 2 billion plays ahead of the next most streamed album released in 2026. Big Hit Music…