Latest
SEVENTEEN members Jeonghan and Joshua sold 804,949 copies of their debut unit mini album, DREAMSCAPE, during October 19 to 25, taking first place on Hanteo Chart's weekly album ranking. The…
Japan demonstrated its new Type-25 surface-to-ship missile launcher outside its home base for the first time on October 25, 2026, bringing a weapon with an estimated range of about 1,000…
China released detailed satellite images of Taiwan on Sunday, October 25, 2026, in a 42 second video showing Taipei's major landmarks, a commercial port, mountain ranges and coastal wetlands. The…
Taiwan expects to finish receiving 28 MK-48 heavyweight torpedoes and AGM-154C Joint Standoff Weapons in 2028, while the delivery schedule for 66 new F-16V Block 70 fighters remains uncertain, according…
North Korea recorded 16 ballistic missile launches through October 12, 2026, exceeding the six recorded in all of 2025 and the 12 recorded in 2024. Behind that increase is a…
Pakistan demanded verifiable action against militants operating from Afghanistan on October 24, 2026, citing an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan fighters and accusing Taliban authorities of avoiding its security…
Singapore plans to invest up to S$5.3 billion in its electricity grid and bring five new natural gas power plants into operation as peak electricity demand could rise from 8.6 gigawatts (GW) in August 2026 to as much as 13 GW by 2031.…
Taiwanese television host and writer Kevin Tsai said on October 25, 2026, that he had never supported Taiwan independence, three weeks after attending a Taipei campaign event that triggered criticism…
The Election Commission of India has refused to disclose the name and version of software used to identify errors in electoral rolls during its Special Intensive Revision (SIR), invoking protections…
A remark at a Patna gathering on October 25, 2026, has prompted a nationwide BJP protest call and a written police complaint against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. At the centre…
Queen Suthida flew a JAS 39C Gripen fighter alone for 41 minutes on October 8, 2026, at the Royal Thai Air Force's Wing 7 base in Surat Thani province, becoming…
Myanmar's rival Chin resistance factions have agreed to draft a shared constitution after talks in Aizawl, the capital of India's Mizoram State, on October 16 and 17. The decision addresses…
Former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul has said that then Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud urged him to take a "middle path" while hearing petitions seeking reconsideration of…
Samajwadi Party MP Ramashankar Rajbhar 'Vidyarthi' says the INDIA bloc has settled its formula for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, even as Congress seeks 175 to 200 of the…
Training for 958 candidates recommended through India's Civil Services Examination 2025 remains on hold after a Supreme Court ruling changed how the government must assess eligibility for Other Backward Classes…
Thailand recorded about 510,000 births in 2023, down from 770,000 in 2014, according to Department of Provincial Administration figures cited by the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). That is a…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought blessings from a digital recreation of Swami Chinmayananda on October 23, 2026, opening a gathering at New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam that brought spiritual remembrance, artificial…
Nepal's National Planning Commission has put preliminary private property damage from the August 26, 2026, Rasuwa and Bhotekoshi floods at Rs79.17 billion, with land accounting for the largest share. Its…
China had 223.65 million people aged 65 and older in 2025, compared with 212.76 million children aged 0 to 14, according to figures attributed to the National Bureau of Statistics'…
Nepal has provided land to 924 landless Dalit families out of 103,140 applicant families, according to a written government response to Nepali Congress lawmaker Nishkal Rai. Eleven years after the…
Indonesia has 9.29 million households without a home of their own and about 18 million living in inadequate housing, according to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). In Jakarta, the pressure…
Thailand has transferred 8,953.286 million baht in flood relief to 1,169,366 households across 54 provincial jurisdictions, including Bangkok, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said in an October 25,…
An estimated 2.9 million Afghans returned or were deported to Afghanistan in 2025, most in adverse circumstances, according to UNHCR. The movement brought families into a country facing economic decline,…
Apple's first foldable iPhone is drawing bigger production requests and delivery estimates stretching into January 2027, putting its suppliers under pressure to turn launch demand into finished phones. Supply chain…
Samsung has reportedly told suppliers to prepare for roughly 20% fewer Galaxy A component orders in the fourth quarter of 2026 than it planned at the start of the year,…
Vietnam's Decree No. 330/2026/ND-CP, effective from August 19, 2026, sets fines of VND 50 million to VND 70 million for treating a person's silence as consent to collect or process…
For 5 minutes and 43 seconds on October 24, 110 full size humanoid robots danced together at the Yellow River International Convention and Exhibition Center in Jinan, China. The Expedition…
Samsung Electronics' Exynos 2700 reportedly scored about 13,000 points in an internal Geekbench 6.5 CPU multicore test, compared with roughly 11,000 for Qualcomm's top competing processor. The results put Samsung's…
Schools across seven refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border recorded 3,833 fewer students in the 2025–2026 academic year as families struggling with food aid cuts sent teenagers to work. Figures from the Karen Refugee Committee Educational Entity (KRCEE) show enrollment at its 45 schools fell…
Sri Lanka has frozen new wind power projects on the Mannar peninsula while allowing those already approved to proceed, as fishing communities demand action over shrinking catches, flooded homes and…
Toxic solvents were detected in hundreds of laboratory tests of water supply products in South Korea between 2022 and 2025, exposing a gap in rules governing materials that touch drinking…
A proposed reservoir in Thailand's eastern province of Chanthaburi would store 99.5 million cubic metres of water, but its future basin includes homes occupied by 654 people in 334 households…
Tajikistan's Rogun hydropower project promises 14.4 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year, with Uzbekistan among its future buyers. For farmers downstream, however, another figure matters just as much: 4.2…
Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology has forecast rainfall exceeding 100 millimetres in some areas and warned fishing vessels away from a large section of the Bay of Bengal as a…
Malaysia faces calls to announce a timetable for stronger haze laws before Parliament's sitting ends in December 2026, as Indonesia investigates 11 companies over forest fires and Singapore seeks preventive…
A director jailed over $60,000 in bribes, at least $389,000 in other planned or approved payments, and drinking water tests above Indonesia's legal limits have brought scrutiny to Harita Group's…
Vietnam's National Assembly is considering an overhaul of environmental regulation that would remove approximately 90% of the entities currently required to conduct environmental impact assessments or obtain environmental permits from…
Indonesia recorded 3.25 million vehicles leaving Jakarta during the 2026 Eid travel period, 18.43% above normal traffic, despite a forecast that fewer people would travel nationwide than a year earlier.…
Sri Lanka welcomed 1,813,484 tourists between January 1 and October 22, 2026, while tourism earnings reached US$2,245.2 million through September. The figures show an industry drawing substantial numbers of visitors…
Western Sydney International Airport opened to passengers on Sunday, 25 October 2026, with a fully booked Jetstar flight to the Gold Coast, launching a new alternative to Sydney's established airport…
Bangladesh will allow tourists to visit Saint Martin's Island from November 1, 2026, to March 15, 2027, raising the permitted daily average from 2,000 to 3,500 visitors and charging each…
Bangladesh Railway plans to extend the Mahanagar Express from Chattogram to Cox's Bazar on October 26, giving passengers at 11 intermediate stations a direct journey to the coastal destination. Train…
Tomoka Nishiyama will enter Japan's main professional shogi ranks on April 1, 2027, becoming the first woman to do so since the Japan Shogi Association was established in 1924. The…
Tang Chia-hung won Taiwan's first gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with a score of 14.966 in the men's horizontal bar final in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His routine…
An Se-young recovered from losing the opening game to defeat P.V. Sindhu 16-21, 21-11, 21-12 in the French Open women's singles final on October 25, 2026, securing her 50th consecutive…
Alexander Volkanovski retained the UFC featherweight championship by stopping previously unbeaten Movsar Evloev at 4:54 of the second round at UFC 333, earning a record ninth victory in a UFC…
John Catlin won the Link Hong Kong Open on October 25, 2026, with a closing 64 and a total of 20 under par, securing US$360,000, his first Masters invitation and…
Yuri Yoshida turned a four stroke deficit into her first LPGA Tour victory at the BMW Ladies Championship on October 25, 2026, finishing at 17 under par with a total…
Elena Rybakina retained her Ningbo Open title on October 25, 2026, beating Canada's Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 in 1 hour and 17 minutes. The victory gave the Kazakhstan player her…
Shaheen Shah Afridi reached 150 wickets in one day internationals and finished with four for 46 as Pakistan bowled England out for 241 in 46.4 overs at Gaddafi Stadium in…
Seventeen members Seungkwan and Dino began their mandatory military service on Monday, October 26, 2026, entering an Army recruit training center together before their planned service in a military band,…
About 1.2 billion TikTok views attached to #SeeTinh, a No. 4 position among searches on South Korea's Melon platform and a dance performed by BLACKPINK in Hanoi: Hoàng Thùy Linh's…
Nogoon Beki is alive. VIVANT's episode 22, broadcast on TBS on October 25, revealed that the former Tent leader survived being shot by his son, Yusuke Nogi, in the first…
Lin Teng-yi, whose television career began in 1962 and spanned more than 40 years, received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 61st Golden Bell Awards on October 25. His…
Sanxingdui: Future Past collected 914,000 yuan at Chinese cinemas by midday on October 25, 2026, two days after its release, according to ticketing platform Lighthouse. The 100-minute film cost more…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reached the top of Steam's South Korean and global sales charts following its October 23, 2026 release, bringing a fictional North Korean invasion into…
Fifteen dinosaurs will move through the Resorts World Ballroom from 3 to 6 December 2026 when Japan's Dino-A-Live brings Dinosaur Odyssey to Singapore. The production pairs mechanical creatures operated by…
Rajinikanth joined a packed audience for a late night screening of Jailer 2 at Phoenix Mall in Chennai on October 23, 2026, as the sequel moved past the lifetime worldwide…