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South Korea is seeking to add nine categories of controlling behavior to its stalking law, including tracking someone's location without consent, demanding passwords, threatening pets and forcing a former partner…
Malaysia has received no new formal extradition request from India for Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and has made no commitment to hand him over, Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said…
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will visit Nepal on November 4 and 5 to prepare for Prime Minister Balendra Shah's proposed trip to India, with Kathmandu seeking flood reconstruction money,…
China is sending three senior diplomatic representatives to seven countries across the Middle East, the Red Sea region and the Horn of Africa in early and mid-November, widening a peace…
North Korea said it tested a strategic cruise missile carrying a cluster warhead on November 2, 2026, claiming the weapon could devastate a target area of roughly 5 to 6…
Britain imports 4,482 categories of goods from China. A parliamentary investigation identifies 3,380 of them as belonging to supply chains vulnerable to disruption and 911 as critical to the UK.…
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) outlined proposed stablecoin rules on November 3, 2026, requiring issuers outside banks and financial holding companies to have at least NT$300 million in paid capital, approximately US$9.4 million. Financial institutions would also need controlling stakes in those businesses, leaving technology…
Bangladesh's tribunal prosecutors have asked the Home Ministry to take control of property belonging to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, moving to enforce…
The Philippine Senate will remove 295 infrastructure projects worth about P8.8 billion from the proposed 2027 national budget because they lack the required supporting documents, Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian announced…
Sixty-six members of the US Congress have urged the Trump administration to stop deportation flights involving more than 150 Afghans, as a sworn immigration officer's declaration describes a November 3,…
Thailand's opposition is preparing to challenge Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and 17 other ministers in a no-confidence debate scheduled for December 7–10, 2026, followed by individual votes on December 11.…
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan met his lawyer, Barrister Salman Safdar, for about 40 minutes at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail on Monday, ending a seven month gap in their direct…
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif acknowledged in a September 2025 interview that civilian leaders and the military do not share power equally, while defending an arrangement he said allows them…
Britain's revised settlement plans would make an estimated 517,000 migrants wait longer for permanent residence, while preserving the existing five years for qualifying care workers who entered or switched into…
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants a path toward Japan's first constitutional amendment to be in sight by February 21, 2027. Yet as the Constitution marked 80 years since its promulgation…
Nepal's Prime Minister's Office says Rs 18.31 billion had been collected in its disaster relief fund by Kartik 13, yet only Rs 1 billion had been transferred from that fund…
Cambodian authorities have announced investigations into private security companies and serving military personnel after Amnesty International linked five firms to at least 23 scam compounds where survivors described confinement, beatings,…
Uttar Pradesh has announced Rs 1,500 crore in Diwali cooking gas assistance for more than 1.89 crore eligible families under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched…
Taiwan's plan to make manufacturing and fishing employers pay overseas recruitment costs for migrant workers is exposing a difficult problem for families who depend on foreign caregivers: how to compete…
Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) received more than 4,000 responses to its consultation on changing the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) system, with a majority supporting rebates for cheaper cars and…
Nilofar, a 28 year old Afghan entrepreneur and mother of three now living in Warsaw, says she survived two Taliban assassination attempts before fleeing Afghanistan in August 2021. One attack…
A woman and her husband in Bontang, East Kalimantan, admitted inventing a pregnancy and a baby's death after a funeral bundle was found to contain a pillow and a pink…
Uzbekistan has ordered negotiations to secure recognition of pension rights earned by its citizens abroad, with Russia, Germany, Japan and South Korea among the priority countries. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev gave…
Nanya Technology posted consolidated revenue of NT$46.476 billion in October 2026, setting a monthly record for the 12th consecutive month as rising memory prices and strong demand for artificial intelligence…
Vietnam's Government Cipher Committee and Viettel unveiled the VGC v1.0 security chip in Hanoi on November 3, 2026, bringing a Vietnamese cryptographic algorithm directly into hardware. The chip contains 300…
India has become ChatGPT's largest market by weekly active users, with its user base doubling since January 2026, according to OpenAI India managing director Prabhjeet Singh. The announcement, reported on…
FPT has begun trial operations at a semiconductor testing and packaging plant in northern Vietnam, adding a facility with six testing lines and a maximum design capacity of 300 million…
Apple reported $114.48 billion in revenue for the quarter ended September 26, 2026, and forecast its biggest holiday quarter yet, but rising memory costs and a weaker profit margin outlook…
Malaysia has placed 11 universities in Asia's top 100 in the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027, with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia entering the top 20 for the first time. Yet the stronger showing at the top comes alongside falling positions for more than half of…
At least 108,500 people in Nepal's high mountain regions live in areas exposed to potential flooding, according to a study that found the number of buildings in simulated glacial lake…
Meteorologist Binod Pokhrel has warned that smoke from crop residue burning in India could worsen Nepal's air pollution if winds carry it across the border, as pollution rises in the…
The share of Yellow River Basin monitoring sections with good water quality rose from 59.1 percent in 2016 to 93.2 percent in 2025, according to the Yellow River Conservancy Commission…
Hanoi residents from officially recognised poor households could receive up to VND 20 million each to replace a petrol or diesel motorbike with an electric vehicle, under a payment procedure…
Lahore recorded an Air Quality Index of 535 at 8am on Monday, November 2, 2026, as fine particle pollution reached 343 micrograms per cubic metre. The reading, recorded by IQAir…
Malaysia has recorded 1,293 landslides since 2021 and identified 1,577 slopes in critical condition, according to Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Seri Nor Hisham Mohammad. Prolonged rain during the…
Delhi's air quality index reached 307 at 7.05 am on Monday, November 2, 2026, entering the very poor category for the first time this season just six days before Diwali.…
Andhra Pradesh authorities planned to evacuate about 30,000 people as Cyclone Murasu approached India's eastern coast, with the India Meteorological Department forecasting landfall near Ongole between 11:30 p.m. on November…
Chiang Mai International Airport is shortening its flight operating hours for the Yi Peng and Loy Krathong festivals on November 24 and 25, 2026, as more than 200,000 sky and…
Sri Lanka welcomed 168,625 tourists in October 2026, setting a record for the month as India supplied 37% of arrivals. Yet the stronger visitor count came alongside a weaker financial…
Japan's Narita airport plans to bring its three terminals together into a single terminal in the 2030s, alongside runway work expected to increase annual flight capacity from 340,000 to 500,000…
A technical fault in a Nepal Army helicopter at Surkhet has delayed efforts to evacuate six Indian tourists stranded by heavy snowfall at Danigad, in Ward 8 of Shey Phoksundo…
Malaysians aged 18 and above will be able to choose a passport valid for five or 10 years through MyOnline Passport from November 2, extending an option that had been…
The 2026 Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix drew 196,542 attendances to Sepang International Circuit from October 30 to November 1, setting a record and bringing the organiser within 3,458 of its…
North Korea moved within two victories of a third consecutive FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup title after beating the United States 3-0 on November 1, 2026, in Salé, Morocco. Ri…
Taiwan defeated Mexico 12-2, 2-8, 7-2 in the baseball5 semifinals at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, setting up a gold medal match against Cuba on Tuesday, November 3. The…
India and Pakistan's scheduled meeting at the 2027 Men's Cricket World Cup has attracted 8,397,294 ticket requests, according to the International Cricket Council, for a match at Johannesburg's Wanderers stadium,…
The Football Association of Thailand has ordered evidence collection and a disciplinary review after Kanchanaburi Power manager Park Hang-seo and Madagascar player John Baggio allegedly faced racist abuse following a…
Alex Eala climbed to No. 17 in the Women's Tennis Association singles rankings on November 2, 2026, reaching a new career best before her final WTA Tour tournament of the…
Taiwanese pitcher Teng Kai-wei finished his first season with the Houston Astros with 73 strikeouts in 73 2/3 innings, career highs that helped carry him past 100 strikeouts in Major…
Japan's Mao Shimada won her first senior Grand Prix event at Skate Canada International in Kelowna, British Columbia, scoring 235.44 points to set the highest women's total of the season.…
Twenty-nine years after Lin Wei starred opposite Hsi Man-ning in the Taiwanese drama I Will Always Love You, its intimate scenes are bringing the 57-year-old former television leading man a…
Godzilla Minus Zero opened in Japan on November 3, 2026, with box office revenue by 11 a.m. reaching 201% of the opening day comparison for Godzilla Minus One, according to…
The Remarried Empress is bringing its imperial divorce, competing romances and magical prince to Disney+ on November 3, one day earlier than planned. Four of the Korean fantasy drama's 10…
Tomokazu Morikawa will provide the Japanese voice of Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, opening in Japan and the United States on Friday, December 18, 2026. Marvel's November…
The Bombay High Court has granted interim copyright protection to Ramayana: Part 1, ordering action against unauthorised recordings, uploads and streams ahead of its worldwide cinema release on November 5,…
Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show welcomed 219,546 attendees from 113 countries to Bangkok from October 29 to November 1, 2026, while its business programme grew faster than its exhibitor…
EXO members Kai and Sehun will release their first mini album together in December, SM Entertainment confirmed on November 2. The announcement gives the pair, both born in 1994 and…
Bocchi the Rock! will return to cinemas in 2027 with a story set before Kessoku Band existed. Eiga Bocchi the Rock! Hoshi no Ashiato, whose title translates as Bocchi the…