Thai teen kills 7 in rampage at home, school
8 August 2026
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Asia
Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
7 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Four dead, 15 injured in Thailand school shooting: deputy minister
7 August 2026
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Asia
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile
7 August 2026
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Asia
Indian visa scam alert: High Commission warns applicants in Bangladesh
6 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan restricts international media reporting outside main cities
6 August 2026
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South Asia
India youth protests highlight mistrust in 'lapdog' media
6 August 2026
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India
Rukhsar Ahmed, rape accused in UK, wins Pakistan-occupied Kashmir election on bail
6 August 2026
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South Asia
Lightning strikes kill 14 in India’s Jharkhand
6 August 2026
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India
Malaysia says Rohingya refugee return will not go ahead if lives are at risk
5 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Bomb hoax: Singapore Airlines flight escorted to safety
A Singapore Airlines flight from Mumbai landed safely at Changi Airport, after the pilot raised a bomb threat alert.
26 March 2019
Jakarta celebrates country’s first MRT line: 5 public opinions
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, finally has its own MRT (mass rapid transit) now, which is something to celebrate after a decades-long wait.
26 March 2019
Pakistan accepts India’s proposal to open Sharda Temple Corridor
Following the Kartarpur Corridor -- a project that connects Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Narowal district with India's Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur District -- Islamabad gives a green signal to opening the Sharda Temple Corridor in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for Hindu pilgrims.
26 March 2019
China chemical plant blast toll hits 78
The death toll from a chemical plant explosion in China rose to 78 yesterday, with more than 500 still receiving medical treatment four
25 March 2019
N Korea returns to inter-Korean liaison office
North Korea has returned its staff to an inter-Korean liaison office, Seoul said yesterday, just days after unilaterally withdrawing from the joint facility.
25 March 2019
Thailand awaits election results as junta poised to retain power
Thailand awaits the results of its first election since a 2014 coup, with the junta primed to retain its grip on power after a vote that saw its main rival diminished but vaulted a new pro-democracy force into the kingdom's politics.
25 March 2019
Mamata makes false promises
Six weeks ago, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee were at the same press meet outside
24 March 2019
UN monitors spread across Bangkok to watch polls
Foreign observers representing the United Nations fan out across Bangkok and its outskirts to monitor the long-delayed election.
24 March 2019
Polls close in Thailand's first general election since 2014 coup
Thais began the nail-biting wait to see whether the ruling junta will return to power as a civilian government, or if pro-democracy parties can triumph against the odds, as polls closed in the country's first general election since a 2014 coup.
24 March 2019
26 dead in central China tour bus fire
Twenty six people were killed and 30 injured after a tourist bus caught fire in central China, local officials said.
23 March 2019
China factory blast death toll hits 64
The death toll in a chemical plant explosion in China rose to 64 yesterday but rescuers found a survivor among more than two dozen still missing in the debris of one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent years.
23 March 2019
Thailand goes to polls
Voters in Thailand go to the polls today in the first election since a 2014 military coup in a race broadly cast as between the current junta leader, who is seeking to stay on through the ballot, and anti-junta parties led by loyalists to exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
23 March 2019
Probe launched as death toll hits 47
Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday ordered local governments to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the country.
22 March 2019
N Korea quits liaison office with South
North Korea yesterday pulled out of a liaison office with the South, in a major setback for Seoul, just hours after the United States imposed the first new sanctions on the North since the second US-North Korea summit broke down last month.
22 March 2019
Police detain labour activist in southern China: wife
A labour activist has been detained by police in southern China, his wife says, amid a crackdown on students and activists advocating for worker rights.
22 March 2019
Explosion at Chinese chemical plant kills 47
An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media says, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angered the public.
22 March 2019
S Korea arrests two
South Korean police have arrested two men for using illegal spy cameras at motels to film and livestream videos of about 1,600 guests, raking in about 7 million won ($6,200) over the past three months, police said on Wednesday.
21 March 2019
Sin Chew editor killed in Indonesia quake
The deputy executive editor-in-chief of Sin Chew Daily Tai Siew Kim is killed in a landslide caused by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Lombok Island of Indonesia.
18 March 2019
TALES OF HEROISM, TRAGEDY EMERGE
When Afghan refugee Abdul Aziz saw a man brandishing a gun outside his mosque in Christchurch, he ran towards the attacker armed with the only weapon he could find -- a hand-held credit card machine.
17 March 2019
NZ's Ardern burnishes leadership
The calm and compassion shown by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in response to the killing of 50 Muslims by a suspected white supremacist has burnished the credentials of a leader whose youth and celebrity had given critics' doubts.
17 March 2019