President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will meet his Singaporean counterpart Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday in Semarang, Central Java, for a leaders' retreat, during which they will discuss efforts to further enhance the economic relationship between the neighbouring...
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will meet his Singaporean counterpart Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday in Semarang, Central Java, for a leaders' retreat, during which they will discuss efforts to further enhance the economic relationship between the neighbouring...
MANILA - The Philippines police will push ahead with the purchase of 26,000 assault rifles from a US supplier, the police chief said on Monday, following an about-face by President Rodrigo Duterte, who previously said the deal would be...
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President-elect Donald Trump in a telephone call that co-operation was the only choice for relations between the two countries, Chinese state media said, in their first interaction since the US election. Trump had...
South Korea's most powerful businessmen were summoned by the prosecution over the weekend to answer questions about their alleged closed-door meetings with President Park Geun-hye last year. The move comes amid deepening suspicions over their dubious ties with the nation's...
A RM43 billion (S$14 billion) harbour being developed in Malacca aims to overtake Singapore as the largest port in the region, but questions are being raised about the need for the added capacity and whether China's eager participation has...
JAKARTA - A toddler died Monday after being injured in a Molotov cocktail attack on an Indonesian church, police said, the latest assault on a religious minority in the Muslim-majority country. Two-year-old Intan Olivia Marbun was among four small children...
BEIJING - The first woman to fly China's J-10 fighter plane was killed in a crash during an aerobatics training exercise, state-run media reported Monday. Yu Xu, 30, a member of the Chinese air force's "August 1st" aerobatic display team, ejected...
HONG KONG - At least seven people, including a six-year-old child, were injured after a taxi ploughed into a crowd after driving onto a pavement in Causeway Bay on Saturday (Nov 12). The incident occurred at about 10.30am outside the...
KUALA LUMPUR - Sixty per cent of the world's 5.9 million children who died before their fifth birthday last year were in 10 countries in Asia and Africa, said a study published on Friday, prompting calls for action to...
