Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said artificial intelligence will play a key role in unlocking new tools for health, education and agriculture at a meeting with Indonesia’s president on Wednesday...
Clashes between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan on Wednesday sent airlines scrambling to cancel, divert or reroute flights...
Tokyo and Beijing exchanged diplomatic protests, each accusing the other of ‘violating’ national airspace, after a Chinese helicopter and coast guard vessels faced off with a Japanese aircraft around disputed islands...
Voters have handed Singapore’s long-time ruling party a landslide election victory, offering prime minister Lawrence Wong a clear mandate to navigate the trade-orientated Southeast Asian nation through economic upheaval sparked by looming US tariffs...
A gunman has shot dead three people, including a child, in Thailand’s insurgency-hit south, police said Saturday, as authorities pursued the suspect...
Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said on Wednesday, after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow...
A restaurant fire in northeastern China killed 22 people and injured three on Tuesday, Beijing’s state broadcaster said.
Eight migrants from various countries died and 29 others were rescued after their boat capsized off the coast of Sfax in central Tunisia, the Tunisian National Guard said on Monday...
China and the Philippines on Monday defended their claims to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after Manila accused Beijing of seeking to ‘intimidate and harass’ with a state media report that suggested the area had been seized.
Beijing on Monday insisted that ‘no phone call’ took place recently between president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, after Donald Trump said he had spoken with the Chinese leader.
North Korea confirmed for the first time it had deployed troops to Russia, with state news agency KCNA on Monday reporting that Pyongyang’s soldiers helped Moscow reclaim territory under Ukrainian control in the border region of Kursk...
Missiles fired off the coast of the northern Philippines Sunday as US and Filipino forces conducted their first integrated defence drills, hours after China said it had seized control of a reef claimed by Manila.
North Korea has unveiled a new warship it claims is a destroyer armed with the ‘most powerful weapons’, at a launch ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said Saturday.
South Korea’s former president Moon Jae-in claimed Friday that prosecutors abused their power, were politically motivated and ‘unjust’ to indict him on bribery charges.
A US push to approve deep-sea mining in domestic and international waters ‘violates international law’, China warned on Friday, after a White House order to ramp up permits.
