TEHRAN, IRAN — At least 70 people were injured on Wednesday when an 5.8 magnitude earthquake jolted northwestern Iran near the border with Turkey, state media...
HANOI, VIETNAM — Vietnam’s rubber stamp National Assembly on Wednesday approved the resignation of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, a day after he dramatically stepped down as...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Nobel laureate Maria Ressa told AFP she keeps a prison “go bag”, bundles of cash for bail, and runs simulations of police raids...
by Laurent Thomet DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewered oil firms on Wednesday for having “peddled the big lie” about their role in global...
SINGAPORE — There is a lot the mainstream media is complicit in, such as not calling out the Government when it clearly practises double standards in...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit near eastern Indonesia’s Maluku islands on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, triggering...
SINGAPORE — Staff from selected departments at SPH Media were allegedly told to “let the matter rest” at a town hall meeting by the Chief Executive...
by Su Xinqi and Zoe Low HONG KONG, CHINA — Regional airlines are struggling to ramp up flights to Hong Kong because of staff shortages at...
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES — Microsoft is readying to cut more positions from its global workforce as tech giants continue paring headcount to ride out rough...
by Mikhail Flores MANILA, PHILIPPINE — Philippine Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa was on Wednesday acquitted of tax evasion, among a slew of charges she has...
