SONGKHLA - Immigration police have arrested a Chinese former flight attendant who is suspected of acting as a broker for a human smuggling network that helps foreigners across the Thai-Malaysian border.

JAKARTA - Seven years after Covid-19 put the brakes on Indonesia’s new women’s football league, Zahra Naqiyyah will finally return to the field with “high hopes” for the women’s game in the country.

VIENNA - As the new school year gets under way in Austria, a headscarf ban for girls under 14 has sparked protests on the streets and in the classroom, with dozens of pupils refusing to comply.

LOS ANGELES - When Americans vote in next month’s midterm elections, one question on the ballot in California could echo far beyond the state: should the ultra-wealthy pay a special tax on their fortunes?

WASHINGTON - A typhoon in the Philippines and flooding in Brazil. Twice in less than a year, the British energy giant Shell has been the target of a new type of lawsuit seeking to make polluters pay part of the cost of specific extreme weather events...

DANDONG, China - A new four-lane road bridge linking China and North Korea finally opened on Thursday, 12 years late, enabling the Asian giant and its isolated nuclear-armed neighbour to step up cross-border trade substantially.

PHUKET - Police have arrested a Chinese man with an expired visa in a rented house in the middle of a forest on this southern tourist island, after learning was wanted for allegedly running an illegal casino.

From wowing headbangers in Singapore to livening up a dinner for the planet’s financial elite, it’s been another eventful week for Nene Royal, the young Phuket rocker and winner of this year’s “America’s Got Talent&rdquo...

Millions could be thrown into poverty by surging energy costs, the impact of an intense El Nino phenomenon and higher interest rates, with vulnerable countries being pushed to the brink by repeated crises, says the United Nations’ development c...

SYDNEY - Australia said on Thursday it refused to allow big tech to have “unfettered” access to its children as it formally introduced new legislation that would give users choice over what they see on their feeds.