Bank customers in Singapore will need to use facial verification in an online process to approve their transactions, the country's financial regulator and banking association…
Thailand will prosecute eight former security personnel over their roles in a crackdown two decades ago in which 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to…
A port in Cambodia's seaside city of Sihanoukville will enlarge its capacity nearly fivefold by 2030 with support from the Japanese government. The terminal completed…
Dozens of people were injured and hundreds of buildings, including homes and public facilities, were damaged by a moderate earthquake that struck the regencies of…
The Surabaya District Court in East Java on September 18 ordered textile producer PT Soedali Sejahtera to pay Rp48 billion in compensation to the state…
The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) on September 18 reported that 38 regions across seven provinces are currently experiencing extreme drought. According to the…
According to a survey conducted by the Indonesian Internet Providers Association (APJII), 82.6% of the 9.82 million people living in 64 remote or underdeveloped regions…
President-elect Prabowo Subianto's flagship free lunch meal program is expected to benefit 82.9 million people by the time it is fully operational in 2027, according…
Deadly floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Yagi have affected nearly six million children across southeast Asia, the UN said September 18, as the death…
A Malaysian man, who authorities say is linked to an Islamic conglomerate accused of running charity homes where children were allegedly abused, was charged with…
The UN on September 17 provided accounts of horrifying torture and an overall worsening rights situation in Myanmar, amid intensifying hostilities and the absence of…
Malaysia on September 17 reported its first mpox case of the year after a man who had not been abroad in recent weeks tested positive…
Thailand's government plans to increase borrowing by 8% to about 2.6 trillion baht ($78.2 billion) for the 2025 fiscal year starting on October 1, according…
The race to become Indonesia’s next foreign policy chief has intensified after Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi announced that she would be taking on a…
A total of 10,652 cases of child abuse were reported between January 1 and September 7, affecting at least 11,796 children, according to the Women’s…
Two earthquakes that struck Sukabumi regency in West Java on September 15 and 16 caused minor damage, according to the West Java Regional Disaster Mitigation…
Malaysian authorities have frozen close to 100 bank accounts belonging to a conglomerate accused of running care homes where hundreds of children were allegedly abused,…
A Cambodian union leader vowed on September 16 to carry on fighting for workers' rights after she completed a prison sentence for leading a strike…
The Philippines insisted on September 16 that it had not given up a South China Sea reef, two days after it pulled out a ship…
War-weary Myanmar villagers salvaged crops from flooded fields September 17 as the country's death toll in the wake of Typhoon Yagi doubled to 226 and…
Thailand expects less than 40 million people to sign up for its flagship digital wallet handout scheme, with the first phase set to be distributed…
In the 10 years since the central government launched the Village Fund Program, the initiative has only improved the livelihoods of 1.7 million people, as…
President Joko Widodo began working full-time at the new state palace in Nusantara, the country's future capital city in East Kalimantan, on September 12 and…
No casualties were reported after a commuter train derailed in Purwakarta regency, West Java on September 15. Ayep Hanapi, a regional spokesman for state railway…
A woman died while being trapped in a massive traffic jam for several hours on the main road in the Puncak tourist area of Bogor…
