There is a limit to how much Moscow can boost its exports of crude oil, which is unrefined petroleum needed to make fuels like gasoline and diesel, experts say.

Indonesia will trim its free meals programme in primary and secondary schools from six to five days a week starting Tuesday (Mar 31), except in regions with high malnutrition.

So far, broadcasters from 10 countries across Asia have confirmed their participation. 

Continuing entrenched petrol subsidies may undermine Putrajaya’s long-term fiscal health but cutting them could provoke significant backlash against Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government, say experts.

Min Aung Hlaing spent a decade jostling with civilian leaders before mounting a 2021 coup, jailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering a vicious civil war that is still being fought.

South Korea imports about 70 per cent of its crude oil from the Middle East.

With limited job opportunities and low wages, young Pakistanis are increasingly looking to online gaming to make ends meet.

Fewer food deliveries, less focus in class. People in Southeast Asia have to find ways to adjust as the ongoing heatwave becomes harder to bear.

The Indonesian peacekeeper was killed when a projectile exploded at one of the UN's positions near the southern Lebanese village.

The move is another sign isolated North Korea is gradually opening up following the resumption of train services between the capitals.

Brent crude has gained 59 per cent this month, topping the jump that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Part of CNA’s series on the forces powering electric vehicles in Asia, this piece follows the mechanics, technicians and sales workers scrambling to keep pace with China’s EV boom.

Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has described the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as an "Asian crisis".

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised the police action, saying that denying entry to religious leaders "constitutes an offence not only to believers, but for every community that recognises religious freedom."