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Snow Man's AMENITY sold 1,014,000 copies in its opening week on the Oricon Weekly Album Ranking, giving the nine member group its fifth consecutive album to pass one million sales…
China imposed sanctions effective October 12, 2026, on Paraguay's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies, Gustavo Villate, and Belize's Foreign Minister, Francis Fonseca, targeting officials from two of Taiwan's 12…
Cambodia and Thailand are scheduled to hold their second maritime conciliation meeting from October 14 to 18, 2026, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, moving into further legal and…
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward the sea east of the Korean Peninsula on October 12, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).…
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea on Monday, October 12, with at least one traveling more than 900 kilometers, South Korea's Joint…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to expand cooperation at a June 8, 2026, summit in Pyongyang, bringing military exchanges, border connections and economic…
Bangladesh is seeking around $4 billion in budget support for fiscal 2026/27 while pursuing a five year recovery strategy that its government says shares key goals with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The priorities include repairing banks, raising tax revenue, protecting poor households…
Indonesia's House of Representatives approved the Employment Protection Law on October 6, 2026, introducing tighter dismissal rules, a four year ceiling on temporary contracts and protections for digital platform workers.…
In Goa, election officers examined documents and found 97 voters eligible for inclusion in the electoral roll. Eight communications over seven days sought the software access needed to reverse their…
Bithumb advertised a trading fee of 0.04%, but customers who did not separately register a coupon could face a standard rate of up to 0.25%, or 6.25 times the advertised…
Indonesia is preparing to bring online motorcycle taxis and other transport services booked through apps into its road transport law, with vehicle maintenance checks, safety equipment standards and stronger duties…
The Philippine House of Representatives approved the proposed P7.2 trillion national budget for 2027 on third and final reading on Monday, October 12, 2026, sending a spending plan to the…
Hong Kong democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have appealed their convictions and prison sentences for inciting subversion, taking the case against the organizers of the city's annual Tiananmen…
Pradip Paudel, Udaya Shumsher Rana and Dr. Dila Sangroula Pant have been elected general secretaries at the Nepali Congress's 15th general convention. Paudel led the open category with 4,194 votes,…
Vietnam's proposed merger of its State Budget Law and Public Investment Law would bring investment planning, budget allocation and spending oversight into a single framework, while tightening rules on unused…
Myanmar's military announced on January 14, 2026 that it had captured three major methamphetamine laboratories in northern Shan State, presenting the operation as its largest drug enforcement success. Police linked…
An agricultural park promoted with a planned investment of 120 million yuan and a promise of jobs for 300 villagers has stalled in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. By late September 2026,…
China's proposed labor rules would require platform companies to respond personally within 48 hours when workers challenge pay, working hours, performance assessments or account bans. The 54 article proposal, drafted…
Airstrikes on October 11 and 12 killed at least five civilians in Myanmar's Sagaing Region and struck a historic Buddhist monastery where displaced families and older worshippers had gathered. Reports…
A 52 year old Indonesian domestic worker has been arrested on suspicion of murder after her 93 year old employer died in Hong Kong, with police saying recordings showed roughly…
Nearly 1,500 women were registered as lawyers and legal advocates in Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover, accounting for about a quarter of the independent bar association's membership. Four years later,…
Twelve housing projects linked to businesses associated with Mường Thanh Group contain 24,943 apartments despite approval for just 6,759, according to Hanoi's Department of Construction. The difference of 18,184 apartments…
Roughly 1,500 households were reportedly forcibly evicted in Dili and other municipalities in Timor-Leste during 2024 and 2025, as the government reclaimed land it considers state property. For women earning…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest memory chipmaker, plans to introduce DDR5 registered server memory using a 4F2 DRAM architecture by the end of 2026. President Cao Kanyu outlined the…
A former Cyberport director and five people connected to a technology supplier have been charged in Hong Kong over alleged bribery and fraud involving at least 400 applications for government…
Indonesia's competition regulator is examining whether digital platforms' control over news distribution, audience data and advertising could leave publishers increasingly dependent on companies that also use their journalism to generate…
Thousands of Android devices across more than 150 countries have been affected by Midnight Mimosa, a malware campaign that puts malicious software inside phone firmware before buyers switch their devices…
Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, a former contractor linked to Super Micro Computer, has pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to four counts connected to illegally sending servers containing advanced Nvidia chips…
An Islamabad court has granted police five days of custody of the main suspect in an alleged Rs9.3 million education and visa fraud linked to the death of Laiba Ijaz, a physics gold medallist whose family sold land and pawned jewellery to finance her plans…
In Shyamnagar, near Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the government agriculture office lists 71,000 farmers and 17,539 hectares of cultivable land. Its assessment identifies five obstacles to production: salinity, irrigation shortages during the…
Indonesia's biofuel ambitions face a basic supply constraint: a study led by Yayasan Madani Berkelanjutan estimates that biodiesel and bioethanol supply will reach 26.6 million kiloliters in 2030, against projected…
India's seventh draft proposal to designate 56,825.7 square kilometres of the Western Ghats as an Ecologically Sensitive Area has brought the dispute over conservation boundaries back to state legislatures and…
Indonesia launched a national task force on October 12, 2026, to combat lobster seed smuggling, with orders to pursue financiers and network controllers rather than stop at couriers. The launch…
Seven South Sumatra districts that burned during Indonesia's 2015 fire disaster are burning again in 2026, while satellite analysis has identified 22,690 hotspots inside company concessions. In Palembang, visibility fell…
The Ken-Betwa river link promises irrigation across drought affected Bundelkhand, but its Daudhan reservoir would also submerge about 9,000 hectares, including 4,141 hectares of Panna National Park. Those figures, set…
Indigenous representatives and civil society groups in West Kalimantan are taking Indonesia's government to court over recurring wildfires, seeking a national disaster declaration, stronger prevention and healthcare for people breathing…
India has released its draft National Steel Policy Vision 2047 for public consultation, setting a target of 604 million tonnes of annual steelmaking capacity, compared with about 220 million tonnes…
Japan received an estimated 3,098,900 international visitors in August 2026, down 9.6% from August 2025, as a sharp fall in arrivals from China outweighed gains across much of its tourism…
Japan received an estimated 3,442,100 international visitors in July 2026, just 4,982 more than the 3,437,118 recorded a year earlier. The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) put the increase at…
IndiGo has increased fuel charges to between Rs 375 and Rs 1,300 on domestic flights and between Rs 1,000 and Rs 10,000 on international routes for new bookings made from…
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…
Kim Do-young hit his 100th career home run on October 12, 2026, breaking an eighth inning tie and sending the KIA Tigers directly into the KBO postseason's best of five…
Rohit Sharma returned to the Ranji Trophy after nearly two years and took 5/36 in 21.2 overs as defending champions Jammu and Kashmir dismissed Madhya Pradesh for 196 at the…
Yolk Kazirbyek won Mongolia's first gold medal of the 2026 Asian Games on September 30, defeating Uzbekistan's Abdurakhim Nutfulloev in the men's under 66 kg judo final in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.…
Pakistan scored 215 for three, their highest total in a Twenty20 international at home, before Mohammad Imran took three wickets for 11 runs to secure an 82 run victory over…
South Korea will issue 140,000 commemorative stamp sheets honoring Lee Sang-hyeok, the League of Legends player known as Faker, on October 23. The release brings his six World Championship victories…
Vietnam secured a place at the 2027 AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup with a 2-0 victory over Kyrgyzstan at Ba Ria Stadium on October 11, 2026, completing Group D with…
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…
Lee Soo-man introduced 24 new performers across two groups at KINTEX Exhibition Center 2, Hall 9, in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on October 12, 2026. His Singapore headquartered company, A2O Entertainment,…
Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero moves the surviving Shikishima family into 1949, introduces King Ghidorah in an attack on Matsumoto and expands the filmmaker's vision of a Japan still recovering…
Girls' Generation has brought all eight members together for its 2027 Season's Greetings project, with teaser images released on October 9, 2026, and a trailer following on October 11. The…
Hanoi police have opened criminal proceedings against three people accused of distributing Japanese entertainment without permission through websites and applications, in a case Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Promotion Organization (CODA)…
Fin.K.L's reunion plans extend well beyond a single performance. Gemstone E&M has outlined roughly two years of new music, performances and other activities leading toward the group's 30th anniversary in…
Tsai Chin has set December 31, 2027 as the last day of her stage singing career, announcing the decision during Douyin's 2026 Beautiful Wonderful Night event on October 11. The…
Nobuo Tobita, Kumiko Watanabe and Hirofumi Nojima have joined the cast of The Apothecary Diaries: The Late Lady's Treasure, the franchise's first anime feature film, which opens in Japan on…
Zutomayo brought 22 songs, traditional court music and a festival of local food and crafts to Nara's Heijo Palace Site Historical Park for its largest production to date. The October…