UPDATED 1.40PM | Nomination day falls on Oct 31, EC announces.
Oct 7, 2026
A 71-year-old homeless man in central China who spent 21 years collecting scrap to survive has received more than 420,000 yuan (US$63,000) in pension payments he did not know he was owed.
Thai customs officers arrested two foreign passengers at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after finding U.S. dollar banknotes worth more than THB56 million (US$1.66 million) hidden in their luggage.
'Just enough to split Harapan votes, condemning both.'
Oct 6, 2026
Although the two countries sit on different continents, tens of thousands of km apart, similarities can be found between the culture of Panama's indigenous communities, including the Mola art of the Guna people, and the use of colours, patterns and techniques in the traditional costumes of Việt Nam's Mông, Dao, and Thai people.
Four Indonesian seamen who were kidnapped and held hostage by Somali pirates aboard an oil tanker for more than five months arrived back home on Tuesday. The men were among 17 crew rescued a week ago when maritime police from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia stormed the Palau-flagged MT Honour 25 tanker that was hijacked in April. Before the vessel could be recaptured, the pirates had already killed five crew members – three Pakistanis, an Indian and a Myanmar national...
Local authorities acted on a tip-off and caught the suspects red-handed.
They question whether a politician should have the power to declare a sports body illegal.
Party info chief paints PAS as a 'narcissistic manipulator'.
U.K. graduates face a shrinking job market, with advertised graduate vacancies plunging 45.6% year-on-year to a record low in July as employers cut hiring amid wider economic pressures and growing use of AI.
Climate change, extreme weather events cannot be treated as beyond govt's control, ex-minister says.
Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on subatomic particles at the South Pole, the award jury said.
A Singaporean woman has been added to a US list of “the worst of the worst criminal aliens,” becoming the third citizen from the city state to appear on the register, after convicted sex offender Amos Yee and money launderer Lim Seok Pheng. Jing Emtage, 54, was sentenced in July last year to two years and two months in prison on seven counts of second-degree promoting prostitution across multiple Washington state massage parlours she ran with her husband, Gerald Emtage. Gerald Emtage, 49, was...