News from across Asia including trade, geopolitics, technology, and regional updates.
AsiaA powerful earthquake struck the waters off Vanuatu on Saturday, with the Vanuatu earthquake magnitude 7.2 reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) via Reuters. The quake hit about 200 kilometres west of Sola, in Vanuatu's northern islands, at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres, and USGS data initially flagged a tsunami threat for
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AsiaSouth Korea's military estimates that North Korea has planted about 960,000 landmines along the inter-Korean border since 2024, a figure that shows how heavily the world's most fortified frontier has been reinforced in just two years. The estimate was reported by Yonhap news agency on Friday, citing military data presented to lawmakers in Seoul. North
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AsiaPakistan is facing a deepening fuel squeeze after the closure of two key border crossings with Iran halted liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports, traders said on Friday, with cylinder prices climbing sharply within days and hundreds of trucks stranded at the border. The Pakistan LPG shortage is now hitting households across the country, just as
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AsiaSouth Korea has again asked North Korea to hold military talks to settle exactly where the land border between the two countries runs, hoping to lower the risk of accidental clashes along one of the world’s most heavily guarded frontiers. The defence ministry in Seoul announced the proposal on Friday, 23 October. It said a
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AsiaThe United States will bar Chinese carmaker BYD’s electric vehicles from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, from Monday, 26 October, over security concerns about the data the cars can collect, according to reports published on Friday. The BYD Kadena ban will apply to every BYD-manufactured vehicle seeking entry to the base, with no exceptions
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AsiaA magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tibet's remote northern Nagqu region on Thursday night, shaking a sparsely populated, high-altitude area and sending residents out of their homes, as rescue teams mobilised to assess damage in villages near the epicentre. The Tibet earthquake magnitude 7 tremor hit at 10:33 p.m. local time (1433 GMT) on Thursday, October
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AsiaThousands of people gathered at the Shrine of Sultan Bahoo in Jhang to form a giant human display spelling out "MAKKAH ACCORD", in a public show of unity between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye.
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AsiaBangladesh is still waiting for an official response from Saudi Arabia after two of its nationals were executed in the kingdom on October 14 without advance notice to Dhaka. The case has put consular communication and the welfare of millions of Bangladeshi workers at the centre of the two countries' relationship. FAKTA Executions carried out:
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AsiaChina said on Wednesday that its coast guard was “safeguarding order” around the Pratas atoll, the Taiwan-controlled island group at the northern end of the South China Sea, after Taipei reported two approaches by Chinese coast guard vessels since Sunday. The statement marks a fresh escalation in the contest over the remote atoll, which Taipei
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AsiaUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Mumbai that a US India trade deal is "very, very close", with only a small number of items left to wrap up before an announcement and signing.
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AsiaJapan and the United States launched their largest-ever joint military exercise on Monday, with roughly 56,000 personnel taking part in the 11-day Keen Sword 27 drills across Japan. The exercise, which runs until October 29, features Japan's new Type-25 long-range anti-ship missile in simulated operations for the first time. Japan US military drills of this
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AsiaThe Yemen Houthi fighting escalation deepened over the weekend as Yemen's internationally recognised government and Houthi forces battled across several fronts, reporting fresh casualties on both sides. At the same time, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi moved to secure parliamentary authorisation for Egypt to give Saudi Arabia "all necessary and possible support" against Houthi attacks,
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