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April 10, 2021 10:21 PM

Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations called for "strong action" against the junta.

India protested to the United States for a navy vessel conducting a transit through its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without consent, the foreign ministry said on Friday, in a rare row between the friendly navies of the two countries.The USS John Paul Jones “asserted navigational rights and freedoms,” inside India’s EEZ in line with international law by sailing about 130 nautical miles (241km) west of India’s Lakshadweep islands, the US Seventh Fleet said in a statement on Wednesday.But an…

April 10, 2021 8:22 PM

Cui Tiankai said the two countries to take history as a guide to solve today's disputes.

April 10, 2021 8:10 PM

Sources also told ST that Mr Duterte was never in Singapore, much less died there.

April 10, 2021 7:48 PM

The watchdog said such content encourages food waste.

The e-commerce company Alibaba Group is fined $2.75bn for violating anti-monopoly rules.

April 10, 2021 6:22 PM

The highly transmissible B117 variant has rapidly spread to 62 of Thailand's 77 provinces.

April 10, 2021 6:17 PM

The region accounts for 11 per cent of global cases and almost 6 per cent of deaths. 

April 10, 2021 5:54 PM

An Indian foreign ministry spokesman said UN rules did not allow such passage without consent.

April 10, 2021 5:27 PM

Cambodia has passed a strict Covid-19 Bill that could see people who flout virus rules jailed for up to 20 years.

April 10, 2021 5:17 PM

The victims' families have agreed to receive the "determined compensation amount".

April 10, 2021 5:10 PM

The deaths raised suggestions that they were killed by sea pollution.

April 10, 2021 5:02 PM

More than 470 Aboriginal people have died in custody in the last 30 years. 

“Don’t force us to choose” has been a common refrain in Southeast Asia as Washington and Beijing clash over trade, technology and the South China Sea. But to political science professor Khong Yuen Foong, the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have already largely aligned themselves with either China or the United States.Khong, vice dean for research and development at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, said at a recent webinar that Cambodia and…

April 10, 2021 4:45 PM

KOLKATA (AFP) - Five people were killed in fresh election bloodshed in the Indian state of West Bengal on Saturday (April 10), including four shot dead by paramilitary troops "in self-defence", officials said.

April 10, 2021 4:12 PM

BEIJING - As the world's second largest fashion brand H&M continues to be conspicuously missing from Chinese e-commerce platforms, executives at multinational companies have fretted in private about who might come into Beijing's crosshairs next, while hoping the storm would soon pass.

April 10, 2021 3:24 PM

The cyclone is expected to intensify to a category three overnight.

April 10, 2021 2:47 PM

SINGAPORE - After a period of success in containing Covid-19 infections, some countries in Asia are once again beating back an emergenceof the coronavirus that has infected over 130 million people worldwide and killed nearly 3 million.

April 10, 2021 2:44 PM

The fleet included J-10 and J-16 fighter jets, electronic warfare and anti-submarine planes