Singapore criminalises AI-generated abuse images
AFP, Singapore
14 August 2026 Southeast Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row
AFP
10 August 2026 Southeast Asia
Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
AFP, Nonthaburi
7 August 2026 Southeast Asia
Malaysia says Rohingya refugee return will not go ahead if lives are at risk
Reuters, Kuala Lumpur
5 August 2026 Southeast Asia
Bangkok pub fire kills 27, officials say emergency exits were obstructed
Reuters, Bangkok
13 July 2026 Accidents and Fires
Bangladeshi man found in container with expired Malaysian passports
The Star, Petaling Jaya
5 July 2026 Crime & Justice
Rescuers free one of seven men trapped in Laos cave
AFP, Vientiane
30 May 2026 Southeast Asia

11 killed as bomb blows up a bus in Afghanistan

A bomb has blown up a bus in Afghanistan killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, officials said on Monday, the latest in a series of deadly blasts that has come as foreign forces withdraw.
10 May 2021

Post-Coup Crisis in Myanmar: Junta brands rival govt a terrorist group

Protesters marched against the junta in dozens of places on Saturday. At least 774 civilians have been killed by security forces and 3,778 are detained, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group.
9 May 2021

China says rocket debris landed in Indian Ocean west of Maldives

Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with the bulk of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit.
9 May 2021

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by early Sunday

Remnants of China's largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere late Saturday or early Sunday, a US federally funded space-focused research and development centre said.
8 May 2021

Foreign minister hopeful US would consider taking Rohingyas from Bangladesh

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the United States may consider accepting a good number of forcibly-displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh for filling up a large portion of the new numbers set for 2021 and 2022.
7 May 2021

US Space Command tracks Chinese rocket for uncontrolled re-entry from orbit

Remnants of a large Chinese rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend in an uncontrolled re-entry being tracked by US Space Command, the US military said on Wednesday.
6 May 2021

American astronaut Michael Collins of Apollo 11 fame dies at 90

American astronaut Michael Collins, who stayed behind in the command module of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the lunar surface to become the first humans to walk on the moon, died today at age 90, his family said.
28 April 2021

Hong Kong legislature to discuss new immigration Bill amid 'exit ban' fears

Hong Kong's legislature is set to discuss a controversial immigration Bill, which lawyers, diplomats and right groups fear will give authorities unlimited powers to prevent residents and others from entering or leaving the Chinese-ruled city.
28 April 2021

30 Rohingyas trying to go to Malaysia through trawler rescued from Cox’s Bazar

Bangladesh Coast Guard members today rescued 30 Rohingyas, who were trying to go to Malaysia illegally by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal, from Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar.
27 April 2021

Indonesian submarine tragedy: Foreign Minister expresses sympathy to mourning families

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has expressed his deep condolence over the loss of lives at the tragic disappearance of an Indonesian submarine.
26 April 2021

Post-Coup Crisis in Myanmar: Asean claims breakthrough

Southeast Asian leaders yesterday said they had agreed on a plan with Myanmar’s junta chief to end the crisis in the violence-hit nation, but he did not explicitly respond to demands to halt the killing of civilian protesters.
24 April 2021

Rescuers find debris believed to be from inside of missing Indonesian submarine

Search and rescue efforts for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew members on board have found debris believed to be from inside the submarine, armed forces commander marshal Hadi Tjahjanto told a media briefing today.
24 April 2021

Hopes fade for Indonesia submarine crew as oxygen dwindles

Hopes of rescuing dozens aboard a missing Indonesian submarine faded on Saturday (April 24) as its oxygen reserves were believed to have run out, with the US, Australia and Singapore joining the hunt in waters off Bali.
24 April 2021

Special Myanmar summit ‘Asean’s last chance to prove it can end crisis in own neighbourhood’

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK has called on Asean leaders to unite to push the Myanmar junta to end horrific abuses against ordinary people and ensure it does not recognise the military as the country’s legitimate rulers.
23 April 2021

Nasa extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

Nasa has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday.
22 April 2021

Myanmar Issue: ‘Business as usual approach’ won’t do

The business as usual approach of the international community has encouraged Myanmar to flout the decisions of international mechanisms and continue mass atrocities on ethnic minorities with a greater sense of impunity, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.
21 April 2021

Indonesian military says submarine missing with 53 on board

Indonesia’s military says a navy submarine is missing near the resort island of Bali with 53 people on board.
21 April 2021

No disagreement, only few recommendations on Bhasan Char from UN team: Shahriar Alam

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam today said Bhasan Char is now a settled issue and hoped that international agencies will get engaged, taking responsibility of Rohingyas in Bhasan Char, the way they are doing in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps.
21 April 2021

Al Jazeera report on Bhasan Char ‘false’, part of its vindictive approach: Momen

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today rejected Al Jazeera’s latest report on Bhasan Char, saying it is based on false information and part of its “vindictive approach” towards Muslim majority countries.
20 April 2021

ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis as EU imposes sanctions

Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc's secretariat said on Tuesday, after the European Union imposed its toughest sanctions yet on the junta that seized power there on Feb. 1.
20 April 2021