The Lao government has agreed in principle to increase the minimum wage in a bid to ease the hardships suffered by many people amid the…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday, kicking off an overseas tour that will also include summit meetings…
The EU warned Russia on Wednesday it would not bend to “blackmail” over its support for Kyiv, after the Kremlin cut off gas supplies to…
Ongoing fighting in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region has killed more than 200 people in recent days, with the UN human rights chief saying she was…
Israeli air strikes near Damascus on Wednesday killed nine combatants, among them five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022,…
A Pakistan separatist group warned on Wednesday of more deadly attacks on Chinese targets, a day after a woman suicide bomber killed four people –…
At least one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles, according to the first major global…
Malaysia will remove Covid-19 testing for all inbound travellers who are fully vaccinated or under the age of 12, and make it optional to wear…
A Myanmar court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases that…
A mentally disabled Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after losing a long legal battle and despite a storm of…