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Thailand has transferred 8,953.286 million baht in flood relief to 1,169,366 households across 54 provincial jurisdictions, including Bangkok, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said in an October 25,…
North Korea recorded 16 ballistic missile launches through October 12, 2026, exceeding the six recorded in all of 2025 and the 12 recorded in 2024. Behind that increase is a…
Pakistan demanded verifiable action against militants operating from Afghanistan on October 24, 2026, citing an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan fighters and accusing Taliban authorities of avoiding its security…
Afghanistan's unpaid United Nations dues have become entangled with a larger struggle over who speaks for the country. Arrears put at $900,000 in May 2024, and described in later accounts…
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have completed ratification of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, bringing a pact signed on August 7, 2026, closer to implementation as Houthi attacks put Saudi security…
Afghanistan had an estimated 10,200 hectares planted with opium poppy in 2025, down from 232,000 hectares in 2022, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Across…
Pakistan's cooking fuel squeeze is spreading into food budgets, with liquefied petroleum gas selling for as much as Rs750 per kilogram in northern areas, roti reaching Rs17 to Rs20 in several localities, and LPG distributors closing shops across much of Punjab during a strike reported…
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction closed on January 31, 2026, ending 17 years of independent scrutiny of American spending in Afghanistan. Its final accounting covered $148.2 billion that…
Bangladesh's constitutional amendment committee is considering whether a future upper house of Parliament could supply the head and advisers of an election caretaker government, with competing proposals for a vice…
MCA president Wee Ka Siong led party leaders out of Barisan Nasional's candidate launch in Melaka on October 24, 2026, declaring that MCA would not recognise candidates announced without its…
Taiwan will vote on November 28, 2026, on whether to abandon its Nuclear-Free Homeland policy, reopening an energy debate more than a year after its final operating nuclear reactor shut…
Bangladesh is considering changes to its criminal law that would allow police to bring extortion cases without waiting for frightened victims to file complaints. The proposals include mandatory cameras worn…
Researcher Bonatua Silalahi reported Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka and the General Elections Commission (KPU) to the election supervisory agency, Bawaslu, on October 23, 2026, asking it to examine…
Bangladesh's Election Commission has resolved 6,442,832 applications to correct National Identity Card information out of 6,570,842 submitted, according to National Identity Registration Wing figures updated through October 18. Another 128,010…
Transactions exceeding 100 million baht involving 49 Bitkub customers and six blockchain addresses have widened a Thai parliamentary inquiry into money moving to Shuffle.com, a cryptocurrency gambling website blocked in…
An estimated 2.9 million Afghans returned or were deported to Afghanistan in 2025, most in adverse circumstances, according to UNHCR. The movement brought families into a country facing economic decline,…
More than 80 per cent of parents and nearly 70 per cent of youths consulted in Singapore support introducing children to social media in stages, as the government prepares legislation…
Uzbekistan has introduced prison sentences of 15 to 25 years or life imprisonment for certain sexual crimes against children younger than 14, alongside new protections for children during investigations and…
Hong Kong could announce its first ride-hailing platform approvals as early as late November 2026, as the government prepares to explain how it will allocate an initial quota of 10,000…
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged gas suppliers accused of selling 1,027 cylinders of industrial carbon dioxide as food grade gas to two Costco stores and an IKEA store in Taichung. The…
The Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) has met 230 migrant workers from Process Maintenance Solutions Pte. Ltd. and Jurong Technical & Construction Pte. Ltd. over unpaid salaries, as Singapore's labour movement…
At about 11:55 a.m. on October 20, a caller reporting a fire in Seoul's Yeoksam-dong was doing two things at once: asking emergency services to rescue people trapped inside and…
Ho Chi Minh City plans to develop 181,257 social and rental homes between 2026 and 2030, including 52,000 homes for rent, while working to turn industrial sites, public land and…
Workers shown in footage circulated on October 23, 2026, are removing Nvidia GB202 graphics processors and 32 GB of GDDR7 memory from GeForce RTX 5090 gaming cards, then fitting those…
Microduck, a robot standing 25 centimetres tall and priced at $399, has passed 20,000 preorders after NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang brought a small flock onto the stage at GTC…
Chen Guangyu, a 17-year-old researcher who helped develop a new way for artificial intelligence models to pass information between their layers, announced on October 15, 2026, that he had left…
South Korea's Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) announced on October 23, 2026, that its researchers had developed core manufacturing technologies for powerful permanent magnets without adding the expensive heavy…
India will release a consultation paper on a new artificial intelligence law in the coming weeks, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in New Delhi on October 23, 2026, marking a…
India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has developed an introductory module on computational thinking and artificial intelligence for Classes 9 to 12, with activities that schools can conduct even without computers or internet access. Introduced in an NCERT post on October 23,…
Malaysia faces calls to announce a timetable for stronger haze laws before Parliament's sitting ends in December 2026, as Indonesia investigates 11 companies over forest fires and Singapore seeks preventive…
A director jailed over $60,000 in bribes, at least $389,000 in other planned or approved payments, and drinking water tests above Indonesia's legal limits have brought scrutiny to Harita Group's…
Vietnam's National Assembly is considering an overhaul of environmental regulation that would remove approximately 90% of the entities currently required to conduct environmental impact assessments or obtain environmental permits from…
All 17 Australian shallow water coral reef ecosystems face an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075, according to the first global assessment of coral reefs under the International Union…
Bangladesh has issued the Special Solar Power Installation Ordinance, 2026, opening rooftops, courtyards, unused land, tea gardens and water bodies to solar projects of up to 5 megawatts. The government…
An estimated 129.5 million Sundari trees in Bangladesh's Sundarbans show symptoms of top-dying disease, including 20.24 million classified as severely damaged, according to an ecological monitoring study conducted in 2024–25.…
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has proposed moving all educational institutions online and directing eligible public employees to work remotely when the daily Vietnam Air Quality Index reaches the…
Wildfires came within 800 metres of a cave containing prehistoric paintings in Indonesia's Maros-Pangkep region, while more than 270 hectares of the surrounding national park burned between September 30 and…
Bangladesh Railway plans to extend the Mahanagar Express from Chattogram to Cox's Bazar on October 26, giving passengers at 11 intermediate stations a direct journey to the coastal destination. Train…
Long Thanh International Airport in Vietnam's Dong Nai province faces a difficult final stretch toward its December 2026 opening, with four major construction packages falling behind despite substantial progress on…
Kazakhstan will require eligible visitors from 85 countries, including Russia, to obtain electronic travel authorization before entering the country from July 1, 2027. Applications through QazETA will be free, must…
Thailand's domestic flight discount campaign recorded 46,780 claims by 16 October 2026, using about 47.3% of its allocation of 99,000. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is offering Thai travellers…
Singapore Airlines will introduce its next generation KrisWorld entertainment system on 41 refurbished Airbus A350 aircraft from 2027 and on its future Boeing 777-9 fleet, combining more than 2,500 entertainment…
Kazakhstan finished the fifth Asian Para Games in Japan with 50 medals, including 12 gold, setting national records for both its total medal haul and its number of victories. The…
Grant Dawson defeated Nurullo Aliev by unanimous decision at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi, with all three judges scoring the lightweight bout 29-27. Aliev, the first fighter from Tajikistan to…
Bangladesh has removed Mohammad Ashraful as its men's national batting coach four days before the opening Test against West Indies, turning to High Performance head coach Mohammad Salahuddin to oversee…
Afghanistan climbed above England to seventh in the International Cricket Council men's ODI team rankings after beating Zimbabwe by seven wickets in the UAE tri-series final at Sharjah on October…
Mumbai Indians appointed Kieron Pollard as head coach on October 24, 2026, putting a player involved in all five of their Indian Premier League title victories in charge of preparing…
Hong Kong finished the fifth Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on October 24, 2026, with 41 medals and HK$5,562,500 in cash awards announced for its medallists. The delegation's three…
Bhutan will make its first appearance in a FIFA World Cup competition at any age level when its boys begin the inaugural FIFA U-15 World Cup and Festival against Lithuania…
An Se-young extended her winning streak to 49 matches by defeating Japan's Nozomi Okuhara 21-12, 21-19 in the French Open semifinals on October 24, 2026. The world No. 1 needed…
Rajinikanth joined a packed audience for a late night screening of Jailer 2 at Phoenix Mall in Chennai on October 23, 2026, as the sequel moved past the lifetime worldwide…
Ye, the American rapper formerly known as Kanye West, opened his first concert in Indonesia with "King" at Jakarta's Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium on Saturday, October 24, 2026, performing…
South Korean folk singer and songwriter Kim Sawol will make her Taiwan performance debut at Taipei's Wenchang House WHOA at 8 p.m. on November 5, 2026, before joining Kaohsiung indie…
BLACKPINK member Jisoo will release her new digital single ADDICTED on October 30, 2026, at 8 a.m. Korean Standard Time, following an October 24 announcement through BLISSOO, the agency managing…
The Weeknd premiered a new song titled Hong Kong at Kai Tak Stadium on October 24, 2026, pairing his dark R&B sound with a sample of Faye Wong's 1993 Cantonese…
IVE's official account shared a clip of leader An Yujin's rapid choreography on October 23, adding momentum to a fan challenge just three days before the scheduled release of the…
China released 430,000 microdramas in the first eight months of 2026, with more than 90% generated by artificial intelligence, according to figures announced by the National Radio and Television Administration…
SS Rajamouli says Varanasi, his adventure film starring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prithviraj Sukumaran, is five to six times larger in scale than RRR. Yet the director puts…
