Politics

An outage that hit an opposition-linked news portal has sparked warnings by advocates of creeping ‘censorship’ by the government.

Officials are cracking down on after-school study centres and targeting ‘killer questions’ as part of education reforms ordered by President Yoon Suk-yeol.

Greater exposure to China’s economy and easing commodity prices are among the factors likely to have contributed to the ringgit’s decline compared to its Asean peers, observers say.

The deals could mark a departure from New Delhi’s years of dependency on Russian arms and show how far US-India ties have come, analysts say.

Cheng Wen-tsan met senior politicians from Japan’s ruling LDP in the first visit to the country by a sitting Taiwanese vice-premier in 29 years.

Indonesia’s former leader has accused the country’s current president, Joko Widodo, of trying to determine the outcome of next year’s election.

Former president Rodrigo Duterte says he has repeatedly assured Chinese ambassador Huang Xilan that the Philippines does not have a dispute with China.

The plan to dump treated radioactive waste water from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea has stirred debates in South Korea, and led to boycotts of Japanese goods in China. Japanese fishermen have also vehemently opposed the plan.

North Korea has rejected Japan’s offer to discuss the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang’s agents in the 1970s and 1980s, insisting the issue has been resolved.

Simultaneous probes by Singapore’s powerful anti-graft agency and PM Lee’s top political lieutenant Teo Chee Hean found no misconduct by Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam.

The mammoth deal – which surprised many – makes sense amid growing global tension in the critical semiconductor sector, with other similar agreements likely, analysts say.

The investigation comes after the school’s co-founder said the institution would emerge unscathed because of its ties with top-level government officials.

More of the Southeast Asian nation’s senators have thrown their weight behind a proposal to pursue UN intervention amid Beijing’s continued refusal to accept a 2016 arbitral ruling on the disputed waterway.

Analysts say Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is unlikely to call for a general election until next year ‘at the very earliest’ as inflation lingers and wages remain stagnant.

As Britain prepares to host a global summit on AI safety, analysts caution that there is ‘no one-size-fits-all approach’ to regulating the technology – and say what might be right for the UK ‘is not necessarily right for Hong Kong and Singapore’.

The port call marks the third visit of a US aircraft carrier to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam war, amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.