What’s behind the quiet US diplomatic thaw with Myanmar?
Fresh from walking down red carpets laid out by his Southeast Asian neighbours, Myanmar’s ex-military chief Min Aung Hlaing appears to have a new...
Hong Kong police arrest 4 teenagers over viral back-alley assault video
Published: 1:22pm, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 1:47pm, 21 Oct 2026 Hong Kong police have arrested four boys on suspicion of inciting another person to become...
DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool
Published: 1:03pm, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 1:17pm, 21 Oct 2026 Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run...
India’s voter roll overhaul fuels citizenship fears: ‘what if they ask us to leave?’
Laddli Khatun pulled one document after another from a yellow bag, desperately hoping one would be enough to keep her name on India’s electoral...
Why is Hong Kong so hot in October and will winter be warmer than usual?
Hong Kong’s exceptionally warm October weather is being driven by a combination of a super typhoon, El Nino and global warming, a climate expert...
China builds the world’s smallest wearable brain monitor with a cortex-wide view
Chinese scientists have developed what they say is the world’s smallest wearable mini brain monitor that can track the activity of thousands of neurons...
Malaysia’s border chief charged with assaulting police in viral airport clash
Malaysia’s border control chief pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to two charges of assaulting junior police officers at the country’s main international airport last...
Days before Brazil’s run-off, Lula and Bolsonaro seek to disqualify each other
Published: 11:50am, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 11:51am, 21 Oct 2026 In the latest showdown from Brazil’s increasingly rancorous presidential race Tuesday, both candidates called for...
Stinking rich: Malaysia eyes land routes to boost durian trade in China
Published: 11:49am, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 11:50am, 21 Oct 2026 Malaysia is negotiating with Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia to establish overland transit routes for...