We must develop effective preventive measures to keep children safe.
Oct 11, 2026
The arrival of the annual floodwaters signals the seasonal fishing rush in the Mekong Delta, prompting locals to head into the submerged fields to cast their nets and supplement their income.
Many young Vietnamese who paid brokers thousands of euros for vocational training in Germany say they have been overworked, cheated of wages and unlawfully fired.
PwC Malaysia lauds expanded personal tax relief, Global Services Hub incentive enhancements, among others.
Singapore will activate haze-related medical subsidies on Monday, capping treatment costs at S$10 (US$7.82) for eligible patients as worsening air quality raises health concerns.
Roziah Jelali has a tip or two on catching a turtle poacher: carrying a pair of binoculars and having patience in spades are key to doing the job well. The 36-year-old Malaysian volunteer ranger once spent three months in Sabah tracking a man whom she suspected of illegally capturing protected turtles. Once thriving off the azure seas of Omadal Island in the Malaysian state, many turtles had been hunted down, killed and sold for their meat, according to conservation experts. Recounting the 2023...
A restaurant owner in China's Henan Province has given top-performing employees BMWs worth about 300,000 yuan (US$44,700) each after seeing them ride electric bikes to work in the cold.
A Thai government proposal to charge export duties on durians, a major cash crop, could raise prices for the fruit in China – its primary market – along with the quality, analysts said. Thailand’s draft bill to establish a fund for research and “sustainable” development of the durian sector would include the collection of fees, the government’s public relations department said last month. Southeast Asian media outlets and agricultural publications have tipped the export duty to be as high as 2...
A 60-year-old Chinese woman who once hauled her son out of internet cafes now plays Counter-Strike seven to eight hours a day and livestreams to more than 400,000 followers.
The California Institute of Technology tops Forbes's 2027 ranking of small private U.S. colleges, a list whose top 15 schools all have alumni earning median salaries above US$100,000 a decade after graduation.
On Facebook, public hospitals in Malaysia’s Bornean states have been rolling out “Selamat Datang” [welcome] banner posts to embrace medical staff reporting for duty. Tawau Hospital on Sabah’s east coast recently published a group photograph welcoming newly arrived medical officers. Kinabatangan Hospital posted similar banners hailing arrivals across various departments, while in neighbouring Sarawak, Kapit Hospital accompanied its greeting with a portrait of a newly arrived doctor. But behind...
At least 12 people were killed and 309 others wounded Saturday in a strike on Riyadh's international airport, Saudi Arabia's civil aviation officials said -- an attack that a diplomatic source blamed on Yemen's Houthis.
Peng Wenle was abducted at three years old and taken hundreds of kilometers from his parents, who he was only reunited with three years later.
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