News from across Asia including trade, geopolitics, technology, and regional updates.
AsiaFormer Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has died at 90, Nikkei reported on Monday. He led Japan from September 2007 to September 2008 and was the first son of a prime minister to hold the office himself.
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AsiaChina's Communist Party has opened a four-day Central Committee plenum in Beijing focused on party discipline and self-governance, ahead of a major leadership reshuffle in 2027.
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AsiaIndia is preparing to evacuate thousands from its eastern coast as Cyclone Arnab approaches, with landfall expected in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday and winds gusting up to 140 kilometres per hour.
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AsiaNorth Korea has raised tensions with South Korea after a self-propelled howitzer was spotted near the DMZ, amid a UN letter row over a September landmine blast.
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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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