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MANILA: The Philippine Senate said on Monday (Mar 17) it will conduct a formal probe of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte's arrest and swift handover last week to the International Criminal Court, which...

JOHOR BAHRU: A seven-year-old Singaporean boy died in a Johor Bahru hospital following a fatal accident involving a car and a lorry. The collision - which occurred at Johor Bahru’s...

SINGAPORE: Thirteen foreigners posing as tourists were arrested at a Thai airport over four days for attempting to smuggle 375kg of cannabis out of the country, a local media outlet...

Ishiba, 68, has come under fire for handing out gift vouchers each worth ¥100,000 (US$670) to 15 new LDP lawmakers - a move he has defended as legally sound and...

In 2017, former president Park Geun-hye was removed from office 11 days after the final arguments in the Constitutional Court in her impeachment trial. South Koreans have gathered in huge...

She considers her journey into the fashion business unconventional. “I picked up skills through hands-on experience, learning from pattern makers, artisans and industry professionals. Over the years, I refined my...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump and discussed efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and to restore stability in Syria,...

"Defending the Indian Ocean against rising Chinese capabilities and power is important," he said. The Virginia submarine program has been exempted from Pentagon budget cuts as the Trump administration focuses...

PARTY POLLS A total of 70 candidates had submitted their names at first for the CEC contest, but six of them pulled out at the last minute on Saturday. The...

BEIJING: China's Baidu said on Sunday (Mar 16) it has launched two new artificial intelligence (AI) models, including a new reasoning-focused model that it said rivalled DeepSeek's model, as it...