Guo Wengui received a 30-year prison sentence after being convicted of major financial fraud charges in the US. Prosecutors said his schemes raised over US$1 billion and funded an extravagant ...

A young doctor in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara died by suicide after alleging intimidation and verbal abuse by local lawmakers during a dispute over snakebite treatment. An ethics investigation is ...

A mother elephant reportedly remained beside her calf for hours after the young animal was killed in a road collision in Johor, Malaysia. The incident also left a motorist injured after his vehicle ...

Nearly 1 in 7 Singapore resident households now earns S$30,000 or more a month — up from 1 in 14 in 2020 — as dual-earner couples became the majority and investment income claimed a growing share of ...

Taiwanese prosecutors have widened their investigation into the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers containing Nvidia chips, raiding company offices, affiliated firms and suspects' homes ...

Nearly 1,700 investors have sued Binance and founder Zhao Changpeng in London's High Court, seeking up to £150 million over alleged unauthorised sales of crypto derivatives to UK retail customers.

The US State Department approved a possible sale of 67 Hellfire missiles to Singapore valued at US$22.3 million. The missiles will equip the RSAF's AH-64D Apache helicopters for training and ...

The Criminal Court in Bangkok on Monday sentenced a 30-year-old Thai mother to seven years and six months in prison after convicting her of trafficking her 12-year-old daughter to Japan and forcing ...

The director behind three companies at the centre of a migrant worker wage dispute has returned to Singapore and surrendered his passport to authorities, Minister of State for Manpower Dinesh Vasu ...

A United Airlines flight from Shanghai to San Francisco made an emergency diversion to Tokyo after a Chinese passenger allegedly caused a major disturbance onboard. Witnesses claimed she shouted abuse ...

A disturbance reportedly broke out during a World Cup supporters' convoy in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon, Maluku, after two teenagers were seen carrying an Israeli flag amid celebrations ...

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency is investigating allegations that payments linked to the transfer of three Taiping Zoo elephants to Japan failed to reach government coffers. The probe centres on ...