The Next Phase of Japan-Vietnam Relations

Wong, one of the most high-profile members of a movement that was quashed in 2020, was accused of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, a national security offense.

A 52-year-old British man will be charged on Thursday after allegedly concealing a camera in a toilet on a flight from Japan to Singapore. He will face one charge each of voyeurism and obstructing the course of justice, Singapore police said on Wednesday. Police were alerted to the case at about 5.35pm on October 7. Preliminary investigations found that the man had hidden a camera in one of the toilets on the flight. After leaving the toilet, he allegedly activated the camera’s recording...

A boat in Micronesia went missing in July. This weekend, five of its passengers landed, unclothed and emaciated, on an island in Kiribati — more than 3,000 miles away.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s push for a centralised cybersecurity agency after his passport details were leaked could face widespread inertia despite what he considers a national security priority. Tech experts warn that creating a new organisation alone will do little to address the deeper problem of complacency, with businesses and government agencies viewing tighter cybersecurity as an unnecessary expense until a serious breach occurs. Lee’s proposal comes amid growing scrutiny of...

Commentators abroad wondered what President Trump’s electoral losses might mean for oil prices, the war on Iran and the future of American politics.

A deal with China hasn’t been settled yet but still, Astana hopes to complete both its first and second nuclear power plants within a decade.

In books and essays, he captured the unease beneath Japan’s economic miracle and wrote about everyday people who might never appear in headlines.

Insights from Eyal Propper.

Countries like Russia and Iran can settle transactions using the yuan – but those proceeds remain trapped in China by Beijing's design.

A massive power outage at the Woodlands checkpoint in Singapore caused a heavy traffic jam on most major roads leading to the Malaysian checkpoint in Johor Bahru on Wednesday. Although all counters were operating at optimum level at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex in the southern state of Johor, the jam lasted for many hours due to a build-up of vehicles from the Singapore side. It is learnt that the issue started at about noon on the Singapore side. A...

The Democratic Party’s sweeping midterm election victory and takeover of both houses of Congress could slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development in the US, with implications for both the global AI trade and the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing, analysts said. The assessment comes as concerns about AI and the data centres that power it proved to be a contributing factor in the backlash against the Republican Party and US President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter...