UPDATED 1.45PM | Meeting with N Sembilan MB, exco, was scheduled to take place at 9am.

Melaka on Wednesday officially called for a state election – the latest test for Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government, which is already facing an internal feud and growing public frustration over failed reforms. The state assembly was dissolved effective from Wednesday following an official notification sent to the country’s Election Commission the previous day by Ibrahim Durum, the Melaka state assembly’s speaker. “A state election will be held within 60 days of the dissolution...

Singaporeans are among the most open to allowing an artificial intelligence agent to shop for them, but they also want the strictest guard rails, research shows. The latest agentic AI study from Global Payments released on Wednesday indicates the hoops agentic AI will need to jump through to be trusted to make purchases without human intervention. The study, which surveyed seven countries including the United States, China and the United Kingdom, found 59 per cent of Singaporeans are open to an...

Pianist Nguyễn Mỹ Anh, a recipient of a full scholarship from the Vietnamese and Hungarian governments, has made history as the first Vietnamese music teacher in Hungary’s public education system.

A series of small earthquakes beneath Keningau, an inland district of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, is drawing attention to a part of the state where scientists say the fault lines are poorly understood and the consequences of a larger quake could be devastating. The latest, a magnitude 3.4 tremor on September 3, was felt in several parts of Keningau, prompting staff at the district office to suspend a meeting and move to a designated safe area. No serious damage was reported. The tremor was one of...

A Việt Nam – China art programme celebrating the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival took place at Hồ Gươm Opera House in Hà Nội on September 21, with the attendance of Vietnamese and Chinese officials.

The Touch, Play, Learn workshop at the Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hà Nội engages visitors with national heritage through hands-on creative activities.

From QR codes and digital maps to smart tourism platforms, technology is reshaping how visitors explore Phú Thọ’s heritage, highland destinations and cultural experiences.

Nguyen Ngoc Thuy, who ran English language school Apax Leaders, is accused of appropriating VND7.677 trillion (US$295 million) from more than 10,000 people and bribing a business partner to fake his company's revenue.