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KUALA LUMPUR: Rescuers in Kuala Lumpur are still using high-pressure jets of water to cut through debris along two manholes…

BANGKOK: Flash floods and mudslides across Thailand brought by monsoon rains have killed 22 people and injured 19, authorities said…

MANILA: The Philippines has confirmed two more mpox virus infections of the milder clade 2 variety, its health ministry said…

Salvage operations are underway after a Malaysian naval vessel sank off the coast of Johor on Sunday (Aug 25). All…

Will Thai politics return to stability or undergo more chaos ahead? The highly disputed judicial interventions and opaque backroom negotiations…

Abdul Halim, a 65-year-old farmer from a village in the Comilla district, said his mud hut was suddenly swept away…

FOUL TOILETS Exhausted doctors sleep where they can, snatching rest on a chair or the floor. “They are just completely…

In a post on X, US ambassador to Manila MaryKay Carlson said her country “stands firmly with the (Philippines) in…

JAKARTA: Thirteen people were killed and two injured in Indonesia’s North Maluku province on Sunday (Aug 25) after floods in…

China asserts sovereignty over nearly all of the South China Sea, including areas claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia,…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The search for an Indian tourist who fell into an 8m-deep sinkhole in Kuala Lumpur’s city centre…

“Heavy rain which began at 2am (on Friday) caused a landslide that damaged homes. Those living in the area were…