HONG KONG - A Hong Kong bookshop raided by national security police earlier this month announced on Wednesday that it would close after 50 years in business, while another has shut down ahead of schedule.

WASHINGTON - US and Saudi Arabian forces said they struck Iran-backed militants in Iraq on Wednesday in retaliation for recent attacks, following a short pause in Iran war hostilities.

ONNA (JAPAN) - From "heatwave simulators" to ecological bootcamps, scientists and conservationists are trying ways to revive and reinforce the famous coral reefs off Japan's Okinawa, decimated by climate-driven bleaching two summers ago.

WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought licenses to produce Patriot air-defense interceptors during a "good meeting" with US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday, as he underscored Russia's Vladimir Putin's loss of i...

PHUKET: Rescue workers are searching for the woman driver of a Mercedes-Benz car who jumped into the sea from a bridge linking the island province and the mainland on Tuesday night.

KUMAMOTO (JAPAN) - A major quake that badly damaged a shopping mall and a factory in Japan killed at least five people, emergency services said on Wednesday.

The Social Security Office (SSO) will appeal a Supreme Administrative Court injunction that has temporarily suspended preparations for the Sept 27 Social Security Board election, Labour Minister Julapun Amornvivat said on Tuesday.

PATTAYA - The disassembled motorcycle belonging to two Russian siblings missing since Sunday was found buried in a forest in tambon Huay Yai on Wednesday morning. Four people with digging tools are suspected to have fled the scene.

Services on the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train line will remain halted Wednesday, its operator said, a day after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the country's first domestically produced botulinum antitoxin, cutting the cost of the life-saving medicine by 90%.