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Japan is considering keeping China described as its "greatest strategic challenge" in a revised National Security Strategy due by the end of 2026, while avoiding the stronger label of "threat."…
Switzerland has restored a diplomatic presence in Pyongyang after an absence of more than six years, with Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis meeting senior North Korean officials before briefing South Korea…
Taiwan received its first two newly built F-16C/D Block 70 fighters at Chihhang Air Base in Taitung on October 2, beginning deliveries under a purchase of 66 aircraft approved by…
US Army Pacific is working toward an April 2, 2027 deadline to position forces, equipment and supplies for a possible conflict over Taiwan, its commander, Gen. Ronald Clark, said at…
Uzbekistan and Türkiye signed five bilateral documents in Ankara on October 29, 2026, establishing a High-Level Business Support Council and setting out changes to preferential trade, customs information exchange and…
South Korea is considering sending a maritime patrol aircraft to the Strait of Hormuz, National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac told a parliamentary audit on October 29, 2026, while ruling out…
China's official manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to 49.3 in October 2026 from 50.1 in September, returning to contraction as new orders, exports and production weakened. Construction activity also slipped, leaving all three headline business gauges below the 50 threshold separating expansion from contraction.…
China's Communist Party has confirmed the expulsion of 33 senior members at a gathering attended by just 279 of the 376 full and alternate Central Committee members originally elected in…
Afghanistan produced an estimated 1,466 tonnes of opium in 2026, almost five times the 296 tonnes recorded in 2025, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).…
Indonesia's Supreme Court granted a challenge on October 30, 2026, to the validity of the foreign secondary education equivalency certificate used by Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka to register for…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has ordered a five-year increase in the upper age limit for direct recruitment to state government jobs, following repeated requests from competitive examination…
Nepal's Supreme Court judges have called for an internal investigation into contacts between alleged intermediary Inam Sapkota and senior members of the judiciary, after disclosures about WhatsApp messages, a hotel…
Malaysia's Dewan Rakyat passed the Supply Bill 2027 at the policy stage on October 29, 2026, advancing a budget package valued at RM510 billion and bringing 13 opposition and independent…
Taiwan People's Party lawmakers said on October 30, 2026, that they would propose making repeat driving under the influence of drugs that causes a death punishable by death. The announcement…
The Court of Appeal in Kota Kinabalu has reserved judgment on the Federal Government's challenge to a ruling requiring a review of Sabah's constitutional special grant for 1974 to 2021,…
Taiwan plans to provide NT$5,000 a month in support for children from birth to age 18 starting in 2027, President Lai Ching-te said at a youth program event in Kaohsiung…
Ho Chi Minh City's People's Council approved a master plan on October 30, 2026, that projects more than 27 million residents by 2050 and seeks to spread jobs, housing and…
Uzbekistan will allow traffic cameras installed by entrepreneurs to record drivers breaking seat belt rules from November 1, 2026. The equipment must produce photographs showing the driver's face and whether…
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has ordered Transport Minister Anthony Loke, the Transport Ministry and Rapid KL to find an immediate solution to overcrowded trains after a commuter shared photographs of…
India's Supreme Court has directed the National Judicial Academy to prepare guidelines helping magistrates distinguish adults forced into sexual exploitation from women engaged in sex work voluntarily. A later review…
Bangladesh has introduced mandatory registration for battery powered rickshaws in all city corporation areas, with registration fees of Tk 8,000 or Tk 10,000 and a ban on national highways, expressways…
India's Supreme Court has called for banks and other financial institutions to compensate victims of digital fraud when an investigation finds that their failure to carry out necessary checks allowed…
Singapore recorded 4,686 new domestic abuse cases involving low to moderate safety concerns in 2025, up 3.5 per cent from 4,527 in 2024. Children accounted for 2,476 of those cases,…
About $6.36 billion in cryptocurrency moved out of Binance wallets across 10 blockchains on October 29, 2026, most of it in roughly 20 minutes, according to blockchain intelligence firm TRM…
Sri Lanka's electricity system collapsed on October 17, 2026, after output from Lakvijaya Power Plant Unit 1 fell sharply in less than half a second, according to findings attributed to…
India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has directed telecom operators to introduce Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) from November 1, 2026, making the name registered against an unfamiliar domestic number visible alongside…
Kioxia Holdings reported net profit of 2.1978 trillion yen for April through September 2026, about 37 times its earnings a year earlier, as demand for memory used in artificial intelligence…
China's navy says its first shipborne stealth reconnaissance and strike drone, the GJ-21, has completed its first takeoff and landing aboard the Sichuan, the country's first Type 076 amphibious assault…
Vietnam plans to complete revisions to its school curriculum in 2026, finish a unified national textbook set in 2027 and provide the books free to students from the 2028-2029 academic year, Education and Training Minister Hoang Minh Son told the National Assembly on October 31,…
Two men arrested over the shooting of Kavantissa, one of Sri Lanka's best known wild tuskers, have been ordered to remain in custody until November 11 as the Mahawa Magistrate's…
Representatives of 53 countries have supported Nepal's proposals for tackling Himalayan climate risks, according to the secretariat of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha. The package brings…
A 101-kilogram male Asian black bear released in the Tanzawa mountains on October 20 was confirmed back near a residential area of Hadano City, Kanagawa Prefecture, on October 24. Officials…
Thailand has opened applications for a 50 billion baht household solar programme offering 50,000 baht per home, with more than 50,000 applications received on its first day. Registration began on…
Bangkok is aiming to cut the number of days when PM2.5 pollution exceeds its standard from 28 to no more than 20 under BKK Clean Air 2027, a plan combining…
Phuket City Municipality issued a red flood alert at 7.40am on October 29, 2026, as persistent rain and runoff from surrounding areas pushed up water levels in Bang Yai Canal.…
Internal accounting records, court testimony and palm oil shipments along Indonesia's Mahakam River have become central to new allegations that Singapore listed First Resources concealed business links to companies accused…
At least 300,000 people live in potential disaster zones across northern Nepal, southeastern Tibet and part of India's Uttarakhand, according to a study that found construction expanding fastest in places…
Check-in services at Incheon International Airport resumed late on Friday, October 30, 2026, after disruptions affecting 13 airlines delayed 38 flights and left about 1,200 passengers waiting. Services to Shanghai,…
Wuhan opened the full length of Metro Line 12 at 9:29 a.m. on October 29, 2026, completing a 59.9 kilometre underground loop that connects seven central districts and two major…
Uzbekistan is proposing a national transport booking platform from January 1, 2028, with an earlier trial linking a flight from Tashkent to Urgench with a train journey to Khiva. Called…
The proposed Bengaluru–Mumbai Vande Bharat sleeper service is targeting November 3, 2026, for commercial operations, with a tentative timetable that would cover 1,118 kilometres in about 16 hours. That would…
Flow, a Makati restaurant blending Peruvian and Filipino flavors, earned its first Michelin Star as the Michelin Guide unveiled its 2027 Manila and Environs & Cebu selection on October 29,…
Alex Marquez took pole position for the 2026 PETRONAS Grand Prix of Malaysia with a lap of 1:56.493 at Sepang, beating his brother and championship leader Marc Marquez by 0.070…
An Se-young has won 50 consecutive matches and 10 titles in 2026, but the world No. 1 returned to South Korea on October 27 with a more immediate concern than…
Elena Rybakina secured the 2026 WTA year-end No. 1 ranking by defeating fellow Kazakhstani Yulia Putintseva at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, then withdrew from her quarterfinal because…
Brazil have selected Vinícius Júnior, Raphinha and Estêvão for two November friendlies at Singapore's National Stadium, pairing some of football's biggest names with a sizeable group of younger players. Fifteen…
Glenn Phillips struck 107 from 49 balls and Jacob Duffy took four wickets for 23 runs as New Zealand defeated India by 87 runs at Eden Park in Auckland on…
Ben Duckett struck 167 from 132 balls and Liam Dawson took four wickets for 49 as England beat Sri Lanka by 55 runs at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, ending their…
Pakistan beat India by four wickets at Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok on Friday, October 30, 2026, chasing a target of 89 with 13 balls remaining in their Hong…
Rashid Khan became the first bowler to reach 200 wickets in men's Twenty20 internationals on October 29, 2026, as Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by 19 runs at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. His…
Activision has apologized for including footage of the October 29, 2022, Itaewon crowd crush in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and promised to remove it completely in an update…
Worldwide spending on Japanese anime reached a preliminary 4.45 trillion yen ($28.2 billion) in 2025, rising 15.8% as both overseas and Japanese sales expanded strongly. Yet the companies making the…
BTS returned to São Paulo on October 28, 2026, opening three sold out concerts at Estádio do MorumBIS after seven years away from Brazil. More than 1.9 million people had…
Godzilla Minus Zero received a standing ovation at its October 28, 2026, Los Angeles premiere, bringing director Takashi Yamazaki and returning stars Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe to the TCL…
Choi Bool-am, whose roles as detective Park Young-han in "Chief Inspector" and a village patriarch in "Country Diaries" made him one of South Korea's most familiar television actors, died at…
Phantom Blade Zero reached 723,876 simultaneous players on Steam on October 29, 2026, as the Chinese studio S-GAME's martial arts adventure climbed to the top of the platform's global sales…
The 2026 MAMA Awards will pair ENHYPEN with the film "Dune: Part Three" and BIGBANG with "Dooly the Little Dinosaur" when the ceremony takes place on November 20 and 21…
Monster Hunter Outlanders launched on iOS and Android on October 29, 2026, bringing eight weapon types, cooperative hunts for up to four players and a new Elder Dragon to smartphones.…