Southeast Asia

BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand charged 18 pro-democracy activists with sedition yesterday, while lodging additional charges of insulting the monarchy against three of...

YANGON (AFP) - Anti-coup protesters gathered across Myanmar yesterday, answering a trade union call for a general strike following a weekend of night raids...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam administered its first COVID-19 doses yesterday to the front-line workers who made the nation’s relative success in controlling the...

SINGAPORE (CNA) – A Singaporean man who repeatedly sexually abused his four-year-old daughter after showing her pornography was sentenced to 15 years’ jail and...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (AP) — Philippine police backed by military forces killed nine people over the weekend in a series of raids against suspected communist...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Thousands of panels glinting in the sun stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state’s push to build...

YANGON, MYANMAR (AP) — Police in Myanmar’s ancient former capital, Bagan, opened fire yesterday on demonstrators protesting last month’s military takeover, wounding several people,...

JOHOR BAHRU (BERNAMA) - A wireman pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court yesterday to two counts of committing physical sexual assault on his...

KUALA TERENGGANU (BERNAMA) - The public is advised not to touch, hold or keep the Velella velella jellyfish, or ‘by-the-wind sailor’, stranded on the...

BUKIT MERTAJAM (BERNAMA) - Police have busted a drug trafficking syndicate following the arrest of six men, including a Form Five student, and seizure...