UPDATED 1.50PM | Najib needs to pay the fine as a condition of his house arrest.

Malaysia could struggle to preserve some domestic air links if low-cost carrier AirAsia is forced to scale back operations, analysts have warned, as rival airlines would have little commercial incentive to take over unprofitable routes. That reality could leave the government facing a stark choice: allow domestic flight services to shrink or step in with subsidies for essential routes, rather than assuming competitors will automatically fill any void left by the country’s largest budget...

Heavy rain, floods and landslides have killed three people and inundated more than 16,000 homes in northern and central Vietnam, according to the Vietnam Disaster and Dyke Management Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.

UPDATED 11.50AM | Meeting this morning was expected to consider ex-PM's pardon application.

'AGC has no right to interfere in the affairs of Negeri Sembilan.'

Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, giving the US company its first foothold in Southeast Asia. Fully electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles were due to arrive in the city state in the coming months, ahead of preparations for a commercial launch, the company said on Friday. From 2027, trained autonomous specialists will manually drive the vehicles to help Waymo adapt its technology to Singapore’s road layouts, monsoon conditions and other local features. The service is...

For fishermen like Joey Marabe in the Philippine province of Zambales, the geopolitical contest playing out in the South China Sea can be measured in dwindling catches and shrinking incomes, as the presence of Chinese vessels around a contested shoal increasingly limits where they can work. “It’s a huge drop. Before, a lot of us who could go out to Scarborough Shoal used to bring home around 15,000 pesos (US$238) a week, a comfortable amount for our families,” said Marabe, a resident of Masinloc...

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Zafir says his office accepts AGC advice that proclamation was invalid.

Poland’s delivery of Black Hawk helicopters to the Philippines has given Warsaw a foothold in Manila’s defence market as it seeks to expand exports from its growing defence industry, with analysts saying drones, air defence and potentially co-production could pave the way for a broader partnership. Polish deputy foreign minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski said on Tuesday that Warsaw was keen to pursue further defence partnerships with the Philippines, as Poland poured US$50 billion into...

Document circulating on social media also bore a 'royal seal'.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, in coordination with the Pollution Control Department (PCD) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, is preparing stricter measures to tackle the increased risk of PM2.5 pollution towards the end of the year.

State exco says willing to help villagers but awaiting details.

A company founded by Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers has developed a 6 kg CT scanner that it says is the world's smallest, a portable device built to image the inside of small objects.

International students accounted for 18% of university enrollment in Germany in the 2025-26 academic year, the highest proportion ever recorded, with their number reaching 516,820.

This factory employs around 250,000 people, making it the world's largest manufacturing site by headcount.

Rally organiser accuses ruler's rivals of committing treason, calls for action.

'State exco's media announcement has no legal bearing.'

Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam will attend the U.N. General Assembly's high-level general debate in New York and pay a state visit to Canada this month.

However, a Putrajaya source declines to confirm whether there is a meeting.

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16 U.S. colleges will charge more than US$100,000 for a single year of undergraduate study in the 2026-27 academic year, a surge from only two schools a year earlier.

A Malaysian woman has died while scuba diving after she was caught in strong currents in Bali, Indonesia. According to local media portal Bali News, the victim, Siti Nuraini Rusidi, 40, was on a diving trip with a divemaster, boat captain and several other divers when the incident occurred at 11.10am local time on Wednesday. The trip’s divemaster, Eugenius Franciso Ray, 33, had reportedly raised concerns over her health when he noticed her coughing when the group was at the first dive site at...

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has issued a withering rebuke to foreigners behaving badly in Thailand following a wave of scandals involving illegal businesses and landholdings including a cemetery, saying the cases have “gone too far” by breaching Thai law and hospitality. Facing mounting public backlash against illegal foreign ownership of swathes of the country enabled by endemic corruption, Anutin’s government has halved the visa-free entry period to 30 days for most countries and...

Eligible domestic users will also be exempted from SST, Automatic Fuel Adjustment, among others.

India and Vietnam could turn their competition for “China plus one” investments into a complementary partnership, analysts say, combining New Delhi’s scale and technology capabilities with Hanoi’s manufacturing agility and links to East Asian supply chains. Such a shift could deepen both nations’ roles in global production networks across high-value industries – from electronics and pharmaceuticals to renewable energy – while giving companies reliable alternatives as they diversify supply chains...

A 27-year-old Vietnamese national was arrested on Sept. 15 for allegedly stealing a luxury suitcase from a baggage carousel at Suvarnabhumi airport, Thai authorities said.

China opened a major canal on Wednesday that will provide landlocked areas with direct access to the sea, state media said, reducing transport times and costs as the country aims to bolster trade ties with regional neighbors.

When Cindi suffered her first severe psychotic episode a decade ago, she could no longer tell where reality ended and her imagination began. “My reality and fantasy [were] all distorted. I had no idea what was real, what was not,” the 38-year-old, who asked to be identified only by her first name, told This Week in Asia. “It was so severe to the point that I couldn’t even recognise my own family members. My mother was there, my brother was there, but they didn’t feel like my mother or my...

Ghani says he will do his utmost to restore trust in the organisation.