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South Korea's income ladder became harder to climb in 2024, with just 16.9% of people moving into a higher income group, the first reading below 17%. Among people already in…
Taiwan has warned of a simultaneous threat to itself, Japan and the Philippines after National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu published a map showing 53 Chinese naval and other official…
North Korea fired more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area toward the East Sea at about 12:30 p.m. on October 29, 2026, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of…
Japan and the United States agreed on October 28, 2026, to establish a facility in Japan for the final assembly and inspection of AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles, known as…
Japan and Germany agreed on October 28, 2026, to strengthen supplies of critical minerals, establish a high-level dialogue on artificial intelligence and explore closer military cooperation, bringing industrial policy and…
Australian Army commanders allowed authority over the Special Air Service Regiment in Afghanistan to shift towards sergeants and corporals, according to a newly published summary of an official investigation. The…
Taiwan's benchmark stock index fell as much as 980.51 points on October 29, 2026, reaching 46,055.07 as selling in major technology companies erased the previous day's strong advance. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) dropped NT$35 to NT$2,390, while the Taiwan dollar weakened past NT$32.5 against…
Indonesia's Constitutional Court has given the government and parliament until October 2028 to rewrite the country's military justice law, setting a deadline for a reform that has been waiting since…
Indonesia's police chief, General Suyudi Ario Seto, called for greater use of cameras worn by officers to strengthen accountability during demonstrations as student protesters heading toward Jakarta's Hotel Indonesia Roundabout…
Shen Po-yang leads Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an by 45% to 41% in a telephone survey of 1,115 registered city residents conducted on October 20 to 22 and October 25. Yet…
Indonesia's House of Representatives is aiming to finish work on its asset forfeiture bill before December 2026, bringing forward an earlier target of December 15. Yet Commission III, which handles…
Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani resigned from Pakistan's Lahore High Court on October 28, 2026, telling President Asif Ali Zardari that constitutional changes had weakened judicial independence and that his conscience…
Indonesia's wildfire crisis brought students and civil society groups onto the streets on October 28, 2026, as protesters demanded a national disaster declaration and challenged President Prabowo Subianto over public…
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol received 1.94852 billion won in his prison money account over 14 months and withdrew about 1.9 billion won through 574 transactions, according to…
A threat against television host Kevin Tsai has become the focus of Taiwan's latest warning about Chinese interference ahead of the November 28, 2026, local elections. On October 27, a…
South Korea plans to build 76,700 homes across six proposed public housing sites in Gyeonggi Province, with construction targeted to begin by 2030. Almost half of the new homes would…
Sri Lanka's Welfare Benefits Board says 1,391,830 families have failed to qualify for Aswesuma welfare payments in its first updated beneficiary list, while 991,800 families have been approved. The figures…
Hanoi's People's Council approved a preliminary VND22.229 trillion redevelopment of the Hoan Kiem Lake area on October 28, 2026, selecting a Sun Group member company to build an underground shopping…
Singaporean Riona Krishnan Dighe, 18, won Miss Teen Universe Asia 2026 at the global finals in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on October 25, becoming the first Singapore representative to receive the…
Kazakhstan could begin building its first nuclear power plant, Balkhash, in 2027, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in his October 28, 2026 state of the nation address. He also called for…
Japan is considering giving legal recognition to the surnames people used before marriage while keeping the requirement that married couples share one registered family name. The proposal would address a…
Taiwan will begin imposing tougher penalties for driving under the influence of drugs on October 31, 2026, with first offenses bringing fines of NT$120,000 for motorcycle riders and NT$150,000 for…
Indonesia plans to launch its national Digital Social Protection service on November 10, 2026, as the government prepares to require people seeking two major welfare benefits in 2027 to register…
Chinese developer Z.AI's GLM-5.3 completed three of 13 complex cyberattack scenarios at least once in controlled tests by security research firm Irregular, the strongest performance the firm has recorded from…
Samsung is bringing Rabbit Virtual Card payments to compatible Galaxy phones in Thailand, with a software rollout scheduled for October 20 to 26, 2026, and a fare cashback promotion opening…
A commercial satellite photographed China's experimental spaceplane docked to another spacecraft on May 28, 2024, capturing open payload bay doors and a companion satellite with deployed solar panels from just…
Palantir defence chief Mike Gallagher has warned that competition over artificial intelligence could give Chinese President Xi Jinping a stronger reason to move against Taiwan, because control over the island…
Amazon began early access to Alexa+ in Japan on October 29, 2026, introducing an assistant that can remember a family's food preferences, read school notices, track product prices and control…
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has recruited veteran blood disease specialist Professor Anskar Leung Yu-hung from the University of Hong Kong as it prepares to admit the first 50 students to Hong Kong's third medical school in the 2028/29 academic year.…
Taiwan now expects renewable energy to supply 20% of its electricity in 2029, four years after the original deadline, Economics Minister Kung Ming-hsin told the legislature's Economics Committee on Wednesday,…
Bangladesh is seeking a new water sharing agreement with India before their 30 year treaty expires on December 12, 2026, as shrinking dry season flows threaten farms, fisheries and freshwater…
Tashkent's daily average air quality index rose from 93 on October 21 to 164 on October 26, 2026, an increase of 76%, according to an analysis published by Uzbekistan's National…
More than 100 million tonnes of dust and salt rise each year from the Aralkum Desert, the exposed bed of the shrinking Aral Sea, according to the Food and Agriculture…
Indonesia and Singapore have agreed to form a joint task force to investigate companies suspected of contributing to haze, combining evidence from fire sites with information about corporate relationships and…
The World Bank approved a $100 million loan to Uzbekistan on October 27, 2026, joining a financing package worth $371 million to modernize and digitize 60 major electricity substations. The…
Singapore plans to introduce amendments to its Transboundary Haze Pollution Act (THPA) at Parliament's November 3 sitting, giving the National Environment Agency (NEA) powers to order companies to appoint specialist…
Taiwan's Ministry of Environment review panel has required revisions to the environmental impact assessment for the proposed Baozhong Industrial Park in Yunlin County, where residents want a written commitment excluding…
Bengaluru Metro's elevated Pink Line has received safety clearance for passenger operations between Kalena Agrahara and Tavarekere, bringing six stations along Bannerghatta Road closer to opening. The authorisation, dated October…
Japan will change its tourist shopping rules for purchases made from November 1, 2026, requiring eligible visitors to pay consumption tax at checkout and qualify for a refund through customs…
Uzbekistan and Thailand have agreed to pursue the signing of an agreement on visa free travel, with the draft under Thai review, Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry said on October 28, 2026.…
Japan's approved international passenger flight schedule will shrink by 3% at the start of winter 2026, with services to China falling 49% even as airlines add flights to South Korea,…
Travel between Delhi and Haridwar could fall from around three to four hours to 90 minutes when a new road connection opens, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari…
North Korea's Ri Song-gum lifted a combined 211 kg to win her third consecutive world weightlifting championship in Ningbo, China, on October 27, 2026, then turned her attention to a…
Naoya Inoue and Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez are moving closer to a proposed fight in Tokyo in March 2027, with the Japanese champion's camp reporting steady progress after a public disagreement…
Kylian Mbappe apologised on Tuesday after Dongpeng Beverage, dairy producer Mengniu and cheesemaker Milkground ended their partnerships with the Real Madrid forward over a video apparently referring to Mao Zedong.…
The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) expects the third Nepal Premier League to generate around Rs 1.5 billion in transactions over roughly a month, with eight franchises supporting a growing…
Tomoya Masaki hit a home run in the 10th inning as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the Yokohama DeNA BayStars 2-1 on October 27, 2026, taking a 3-0 lead in…
Naomi Osaka saved three consecutive set points before beating Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 7-6(4) at Tokyo's Ariake Tennis Park on Tuesday, turning her first Pan Pacific Open appearance in four years…
Three Vietnamese media companies have reportedly jointly purchased broadcasting rights to the 2026 U17 World Cup, sharing the cost of a tournament that will feature Vietnam for the first time.…
Cong An Ha Noi claimed their first AFC Champions League Elite victory on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, beating Shanghai Port 3-2 after taking the lead three times and surviving a…
The Black Label said on October 28 that it was discussing an exclusive contract with CL, the 2NE1 leader who left YG Entertainment in November 2019 and went on to…
Actors Shin Min-a and Kim Woo-bin have donated more than 5 billion won between them, with their charitable work stretching from hospital treatment for children to heating bills for older…
Zubeen Garg's final film, Roi Roi Binale, opened in Guwahati at 4:25 a.m. on October 31, 2025, as cinemas across Assam cleared their schedules for the late singer and actor.…
Amazon MGM Studios plans to double its investment in original Japanese content, its Japan chief Buddy Marini said at TIFFCOM in Tokyo on October 28, 2026, outlining an expansion that…
Tencent's Lvpaopao short drama service reached 143 million monthly active users in August 2026, according to QuestMobile data, giving the company a substantial audience for its challenge to ByteDance's Hongguo.…
More than 10 billion Douyin views, a Chinese duet with Huang Ling and a place on QQ Music: those are the achievements Big Arts Entertainment lists for the Chinese version…
Former BigBang member Seungri says he has already registered his marriage to a woman outside the entertainment industry and is expecting his first child, a son, in January 2027. His…
Hins Cheung has expanded his Christmas and New Year concert series at The Londoner Arena in Macao from six performances to eight after tickets allocated to the fan club priority…