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Japan's annual average of approved compensation cases for mental disorders among medical workers rose from 16.3 in fiscal 2012 to 2014 to 59.3 in fiscal 2021 to 2023, according to…
Bangladesh wants a new or revised Ganges water treaty with India before the current agreement expires on December 12, 2026, with a safeguard ensuring that its allocation does not collapse…
Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. says he cannot be certain that ASEAN and China will complete a South China Sea Code of Conduct before the regional bloc hands its…
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…
Thailand's Cabinet approved 1.26 trillion baht in new public borrowing on September 29, 2026, as competing government projections pointed to public debt approaching, or briefly crossing, the country's 70% limit. A Finance Ministry estimate puts debt at 69.7% of gross domestic product by September 2027,…
A Philippine Navy sailor needing urgent medical care was transferred from the BRP Sierra Madre at Ayungin Shoal on October 8, 2026, after an evacuation operation that the Philippine Coast…
Mari Alkatiri, the former president of the Special Administrative Region of Oé-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA), gave a statement to prosecutors in Dili on October 5, 2026, as a suspect in an…
Malaysia's first littoral combat ship, Maharaja Lela, is now scheduled for delivery in April 2027 rather than December 2026, without its planned Naval Strike Missile system. The latest postponement comes…
South Korean police have searched the National Intelligence Service twice over allegations that roughly 170 million won intended to build diplomatic support for South Korea instead paid largely for domestic…
Taiwan could begin distributing NT$10,000 per eligible person on January 26, 2027, under a plan backed by NT$235.7 billion in the proposed central government budget. The first payments depend on…
US President Donald Trump claimed that China and Taiwan had avoided war entirely because of him and the United States as he attacked the decision to award the 2026 Nobel…
More than 2,000 vehicles reportedly followed Democratic Progressive Party Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen through Zhongshan and Datong districts on October 11, 2026, as his first Taipei Ocean Current campaign…
Nepal's target of separating its aviation regulator from its airport and navigation services by mid-January 2027 is under threat after two crucial bills reached the lower house of Parliament only…
Children account for around 80 percent of casualties from explosive hazards in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which says the country ranks third globally…
Brunei Darussalam has been upgraded from the Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 in the United States' 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report, according to a U.S. Embassy announcement dated…
A ceiling collapse that injured 38 people at a sales event in Daegu has exposed two gaps in local safety oversight: a building completed in 1994 was outside mandatory periodic…
In Quanzhou, a delivery rider eligible for Meituan's pension subsidy can pay 443.3 yuan a month toward a state pension, with the platform contributing another 443.3 yuan. Yet at the…
A year after the September 23, 2025, flood killed 19 people and left five missing in Taiwan's Guangfu Township, Indigenous communities along Matai'an Creek face another upheaval: flood protection projects…
A Seoul court has ordered two organizations representing communities affected by the 2007 Taean oil spill to return about 285.2 billion won to the Community Chest of Korea, after finding…
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…
Google's planned $15 billion artificial intelligence hub in Visakhapatnam spans more than 600 acres across three sites, with over 260 acres being cleared at Tarluvada alone. The investment is scheduled…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-alpha.1 on October 3, 2026, adding an experimental bridge for extensions written for Anthropic's Claude Code. Three examples, Token Weather, Blast Radius and Replay Theater, are…
The U.S. International Trade Commission has opened a patent investigation involving 20 companies and related legal entities, including Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, known as Foxconn, Delta Electronics and Quanta…
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…
Girls in rural India complete upper secondary education at just 59 for every 100 boys, while urban areas have reached gender parity, according to UNESCO's 2026 Global Education Monitoring Gender Report. The contrast reveals a deep geographical divide beneath India's progress in expanding schooling and…
The Philippines has renewed its pledge to reduce or avoid 75% of projected cumulative greenhouse gas emissions during 2025 to 2035, raising the portion it will deliver through domestic resources…
South Korea's Geum River basin, currently rated among the country's most secure water systems, could require 782.4 billion won to address an annual water deficit of 53.67 million cubic metres…
A Tk 6.5 crore project to restore the Haridhoa River in Narsingdi is moving ahead while untreated industrial waste continues to enter its waters. During a recent reporting visit across…
At Mon headquarters in Nagaland, an automatic weather station recorded 83.95 millimetres of rain on July 19, 2026, and 341 mm between July 19 and 31. The official disaster briefing…
About 20% of agricultural areas tested in the Kok, Sai and Ruak river basins in Chiang Rai contained arsenic above the Department of Land Development's soil standard, while another 50%…
Monsoon flood peaks in the western and central Ganges basin declined by an average of 17% per decade between 1970 and 2010, according to research published on June 6, 2025.…
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…
A 16-year-old Thai teenager known as Queue took his grandfather roughly 2,000 kilometres to Singapore by train, bus and on foot, choosing inexpensive transport and accommodation in neighbouring Malaysia to…
India plans to bring 14,000 tourism experiences and 9,000 homestays onto a National Digital Tourism Stack by the end of 2028, creating shared infrastructure through which travellers could discover and…
India's Ministry of Civil Aviation has put on hold a plan to remove 265 of Mumbai airport's 770 weekly international departure slots while airlines and Adani Airports negotiate how to…
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…
Japan reclaimed the world judo mixed team title in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 11, 2026, winning its eighth gold in the event after Akari Omori secured the decisive victory against…
Wang Manyu retained the WTT China Smash women's singles championship in Beijing on October 11, 2026, beating Japan's Hitomi Sato 4-0 just one day after successfully defending the women's doubles…
The Pertamina Grand Prix of Indonesia drew a reported 157,875 spectator attendances to Lombok on October 9 to 11, 2026, bringing full hotels, higher room prices and more business to…
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…
Chen Handian says his romance with Taiwanese entertainer Lulu Huang Lu Ziyin began with a declaration at a restaurant, after years of friendship and a growing reluctance to hear about…
A dispute over TOP登陆少年组合concert arrangements generated 48,795 submissions to Xuzhou's 12345 government service platform between midnight on August 21 and 8 a.m. on August 31, prompting extra…
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…