News from across Asia including trade, geopolitics, technology, and regional updates.
AsiaAt least 10 people were killed and several others injured when a fire swept through a beach resort in Cox's Bazar early on Saturday morning, destroying the wooden building within hours and exposing a string of fire-safety failures at one of Bangladesh's most popular tourist destinations. The blaze broke out at around 7:00 am at
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AsiaIndonesia has approved foreign firefighting help as its worst forest fires in a decade choke the region. Hundreds of thousands face breathing problems while haze closes schools in Malaysia and East Timor.
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AsiaThe China Philippines tensions flared again on Friday after the Philippine government accused Beijing's ambassador of making what it described as a thinly veiled threat of force, the latest sign of strained relations between the two countries over the South China Sea. The dispute began when Chinese ambassador Jing Quan told journalists on Thursday that
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AsiaA 59-year-old man was arrested after a stabbing attack at a shopping complex in Incheon, South Korea, left ten people injured, one critically.
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AsiaA Kashmir landmine blast near the Line of Control in Poonch district killed four young men on Monday, October 12, in an incident with conflicting accounts from both sides of the frontier.
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AsiaThe United States has described China's recent maritime activities off Taiwan's east coast as "deeply destabilising", after a Chinese maritime militia vessel was sighted operating near the island in August 2026 — the latest in a series of grey-zone pressure tactics designed to intimidate.
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AsiaNorth Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, in Pyongyang's fourth missile launch in a month and its latest show of force amid rising tensions between the two Koreas. The missiles, which appeared to be of different types, were fired at around 9:20 a.m.
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AsiaThe INDIA bloc marched to India's Supreme Court on Monday after CJI Surya Kant declined to meet opposition leaders over alleged vote theft and the SIR electoral roll revision.
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AsiaManila: Energy ministers from across Asia have agreed a new regional push to strengthen oil stockpiling, with Japan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates backing coordinated petroleum reserves as Asia's energy ministers met for the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Ministerial Meeting on October 8.
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AsiaThe ESG Symposium 2026 is moving from dialogue to action. In an announcement issued from Bangkok under the theme "ASEAN in Action: Powering Inclusive Green Transition", the symposium is advancing three key agendas — Energy Transition, Just Transition and Climate Adaptation — through Public-Private-P
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AsiaChina has suspended October oil-product exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau, sending Asian gasoline refining margins to a record above $50 a barrel and tightening fuel supply across the region.
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AsiaTyphoon Choi-Wan intensified over the Pacific Ocean on the night of October 2, the Philippine weather bureau PAGASA said in its 5 a.m. bulletin on Saturday, October 3. The typhoon remains outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and is not expected to enter it, but its trough is already b
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