Over three lakh Rohingyas verified for repatriation
16 August 2026
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Asia
Singapore criminalises AI-generated abuse images
14 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Cyber threat: North Korean hackers build AI tools for attacks
11 August 2026
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Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead official over money row
11 August 2026
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Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row
10 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
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
Pariza paddy brings smile to farmers in Lalmonirhat
Cultivation of Pariza, a short duration paddy cultivated between boro and aman, brings happiness to a good number of farmers in the
18 August 2015
India landslide kills seven in Sikh shrine, many trapped
A landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has killed at least seven people and injured eight others after boulders dislodged and fell onto a Sikh shrine.
18 August 2015
Ex-Sri Lanka leader Rajapakse concedes election defeat
Sri Lanka's former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse admits his dream of a political comeback was over after conceding defeat in parliamentary elections.
18 August 2015
Bangkok bomb was worst ever attack, says Thai PM
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the bombing of a shrine in the capital, Bangkok, on Monday was the "worst ever attack" on the country.
18 August 2015
Thakurgaon Jamaat chief arrested
Law enforcers arrested Abdul Hakim, chief of Thakurgaon district unit of Jamaat-e-Islami, from his residence in Hajirpara area in the
17 August 2015
Death toll hits 104
The death toll from the giant chemical explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin has reached 104, the Xinhua said yesterday, as area residents were evacuated over fears of cyanide contamination.
15 August 2015
'Remorseful' for aggression
Japanese Emperor Akihito yesterday, for the first time, expressed "deep remorse" over Japan's role in World War Two.
15 August 2015
No fresh apology from Japan PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed deep remorse yesterday over World War II and said previous national apologies were
14 August 2015
Singapore flats get giant art on their facades
Painting on canvas is all in a day's work for an artist, but creating and assembling dozens of panels into a massive work of art of up to 900 sq m is no mean feat.
14 August 2015
Where kamikaze pilots sent last signals
As World War II progressed, Japans military power started to wane. With only a few lead ships left, the navy had no choice but to transfer the command centre to land.
13 August 2015
Suicide attack at Kabul airport kills 5
A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing five people.
10 August 2015
Typhoon Soudelor kills 12 in China
Typhoon Soudelor killed 12 people in eastern China and five are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century, state media reported yesterday.
9 August 2015
Abe pledges nuke free Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by renewing his
9 August 2015
North Korea's new time zone to break from 'imperialism'
North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, say state media.
7 August 2015
Suicide attack in Saudi mosque kills 13
A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Saudi Arabia kills 13 people.
6 August 2015
Hiroshima attack: Images show impact of first atom bomb
Seventy years after the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, explore these panorama and 'before and after' images, reported by ABC, to see the devastation wrought by the world's nuclear dawn.
6 August 2015
South China Sea tensions flare at Asia security talks
Southeast Asian diplomats yesterday said that China's controversial island-building drive is raising regional tensions, with the
4 August 2015
Myanmar seeks int'l help
Myanmar yesterday formally appealed for international help in tackling massive floods with rescuers struggling to reach isolated
4 August 2015
Asean, China discuss 'hotline'
ASEAN and China are discussing setting up a "hotline" in case of an emergency regarding the territorial dispute over the South China Sea, a Philippine official said yesterday.
2 August 2015
Meet the Facebook reporters of India-Bangladesh enclaves
A group of "Facebook reporters" have been the main source of information from the enclaves of India and Bangladesh in the past few years.
1 August 2015