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TikTok to invest ‘billions of dollars’ in S-E Asia to help region’s businesses: CEO

The app has provided a platform for over 15 million small businesses in South-east Asia, said Mr Chew.

Ex-Malaysian PM Najib’s wife Rosmah gets passport back to visit daughter, grandsons in S’pore
Migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand earn below minimum wage: Study

Singapore's Government has taken steps to strengthen safeguards for migrant domestic workers.

Fast approaching cyclone forces evacuation of 75,000 people on India's west coast

Early on Thursday, the cyclone was centred 180km off Jakhau Port in Gujarat and 270km off Karachi in Pakistan.

Taiwan political upstart replaces KMT as second most popular party: Poll

The Taiwan People’s Party has an approval rating of 22.2 per cent compared to 20.4 per cent for the KMT.

How South Korea puts its food scraps to good use
Bill Gates in China to meet President Xi on Friday, say sources
Australia blocks new Russian embassy near Parliament
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Asian Insider

Indonesian President’s younger son gears up for mayoral race in opposition stronghold
Chinese naval ship docks in Manila for ‘goodwill’ visit amid South China Sea tensions
Umno harps on pardon for Najib in bid to clean up party’s image: Analysts
Australia PM Albanese’s honeymoon ends as inflation and political attacks bite
Missile threats, scandals and becoming an accidental TV star: Reflections on 8 years in S. Korea
Malaysia Edition: Anwar returns to Umno general assembly | Jokowi gets rockstar welcome in KL

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India, China have expelled nearly all of each other’s journalists amid fraying ties
Asian Insider: How US-China rivalry has hit people’s day-to-day lives
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Thailand Election

Thai PM front runner Pita Limjaroenrat faces election probe
Thai election agency to probe prime minister front runner Pita: Report
Thailand’s PM front runner Pita confident of surviving move to thwart leadership bid
Election winner MFP sets up transition team to take over as new Thai government
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Conversations

Secular India moving towards South Asia’s majoritarian norm: Historian Ramachandra Guha

Professor Guha warned of democratic backsliding in India as well.

We are finally beginning to use our intellect: Jane Goodall
Identity politics hinders compromises essential to working democracies: Chan Heng Chee
Multiple challenges, volatility threaten food security, warns US entrepreneur Sara Menker
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Asia flashpoints

Taiwan Strait: Cross-strait clash could draw others into the fray
Korean Peninsula: Uneasy status quo, but sparks fly when North tests missiles
South China Sea: Home to oil, gas reserves and rich fishing grounds
East China Sea: Isles near potentially huge oil, gas deposits
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Letters from Bureaus

Missile threats, scandals and becoming an accidental TV star: Reflections on 8 years in S. Korea
An aromatic dip into India’s historic perfume-making city
‘Wang hong’ culture booms in China as more young people dream of becoming influencers
‘Genderless uniforms’ gaining traction across Japan
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Podcast

Why Asean has opportunities in middle of global power rivalry

Asean also needs long-term low carbon vision to reinforce supply chain security and competitiveness.

Nato's future role in Asia and June Shangri-La Dialogue expectations
India has remarkably saved the tiger but deeper issues remain
How a haircut stirred up a clash of values at Thai schools
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LATEST

Superyacht to Busan: $671m Nord, owned by Russian tycoon, reappears, heading for S. Korea
North Korea fires ballistic missile: South Korea
Delivery rider in China jumps off bridge to save drowning woman, gets $15k reward
Japan lawmakers advance controversial LGBTQ bill
Photo of ‘golden halo’ on Mount Kinabalu goes viral
China Premier Li Qiang to visit Germany, France next week
Japanese officials call for Mount Fuji crowd control
How South Korea puts its food scraps to good use
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Climate Change

Pakistan braces itself for more climate-led disasters in coming months
How South Korea puts its food scraps to good use
Norway projects a cautionary tale about carbon capture and storage, report says
Roger Payne, biologist who heard whales singing, dies at 88
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MOST POPULAR

  1. ‘I hope this is my last marriage’: Malaysian great-grandmother, 62, marries 28-year-old man
  2. S’porean businessman shot in the head in popular Philippine resort town
  3. Social media abuzz after ghostly figure seen in pictures at Johor’s immigration complex
  4. Johor police confirm receiving 2 reports against comedian Jocelyn Chia
  5. TikTok to invest ‘billions of dollars’ in S-E Asia to help region’s businesses: CEO
  6. Two killed in shooting at Japan army training range; teen suspect arrested
  7. Cash-strapped young South Koreans turn to pawn shops, using tech gadgets as collateral
  8. Hong Kong man hospitalised after suspected poisoning from eating dozens of ginkgo seeds
  9. Experts, teachers alarmed as India removes evolution, periodic table from textbooks
  10. Ex-Malaysian PM’s wife Rosmah seeks release of passport so she can visit daughter in S’pore

Videos

Releasing AI into the wild ‘like open-sourcing the Manhattan Project’: Nobel laureate Maria Ressa
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