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SINGAPORE: Tech giants Twitter and Meta in recent weeks removed social media accounts promoting pro-Western narratives that supported the United States and its allies while opposing countries like China and...

KARACHI: Pakistan rejected India's closure of the incident of the firing of a supersonic missile into Pakistani territory on Mar 9, and reiterated demand for joint probe, said a statement...

At least eight children were killed in floods that swept away houses in central and eastern Afghanistan this week, the United Nations' children's agency said on Tuesday (Aug 23), adding...

WASHINGTON: The United States has added seven China-related entities, mostly related to aerospace, to its export control list, citing national security and foreign policy concerns, according to a US Commerce...

TAIPEI: Taiwan wants to ensure its partners have reliable supplies of semiconductors, or "democracy chips", President Tsai Ing-wen told the governor of the US state of Indiana on Monday (Aug...

TAIPEI: United States Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Friday (Aug 19) that China's actions around Taiwan increase the level of risk, and he hoped that China's behaviour returns...

DIVERSE BUSINESS EMPIRE After attending university in the late 1980s, Xiao began selling computers and in the decades that followed built an empire with diverse interests including banking and insurance....

SYDNEY: An Indonesian man jailed for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds of people has had his sentence reduced, Australia's prime minister said on Friday...

JAKARTA: An Indonesian man jailed for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds of people could be released on parole in the coming days after the latest...

When was 377A introduced and why? Section 377A was introduced to Singapore’s Penal Code in the middle of 1938 when it was under British rule. It reads: “Any male person...