News from across Asia including trade, geopolitics, technology, and regional updates.
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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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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