JAKARTA: Indonesia has raised its heavily subsidised fuel prices by about 30%, as the government moves to rein in ballooning subsidies despite a risk of mass protests.

Travellers alarmed at sky-high airfares for the year-end holidays can add soaring fuel prices, spurred in part by Russia’s weaponisation of its energy resources, to the list of factors to blame.

A couple and their grandchildren were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a pickup truck in Pha Khao district of Loei on Friday evening, police said.

BEIRUT: A Saudi app that lets ordinary people “play the role of a police officer” may have alerted authorities to the tweets of a student whose sentencing to 34 years in jail has drawn international condemnation.

Ahead of the 55th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) foreign ministers' meeting in August, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen mulled over a "new approach" to the Myanmar crisis. The country's junta government had just executed four politica...

There were 23 more Covid-19 fatalities and 1,942 new patients admitted to hospitals on Friday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Saturday morning.

Authorities found more than 300 pub-goers aged below 20 packed inside a popular nightspot in Muang district of Chiang Rai province in the early hours of Saturday, with all three fire exit doors locked.

Switzerland's glaciers lost more than half their volume between 1931 and 2016, a new study found, with glacier retreat accelerating in recent years amid growing concerns over global warming.

The death toll from the Mountain B pub fire in Chon Buri has risen to 23 after a 27-year-old navy officer who succumbed to serious burns on Friday.

A crashed Ferrari, a dead policeman and a fugitive heir to a multibillion-dollar fortune -- a decade on, Thailand is no closer to resolving one of its most notorious hit-and-run cases.