How do you keep a character from a 1957 children’s book relevant? For The Cat in the Hat (2026), the answer is to modernise the conflict, keep the character and expand the world.

NAY PYI TAW — Myanmar's military-appointed election commission has scheduled by-elections for April next year to fill dozens of parliamentary seats, ‌state media said on Friday, including in areas impacted by a protracted civil war.

SINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines, long a benchmark for premium travel, is ‌spending more than S$2 billion (US$1.6 billion) to upgrade long-haul seats and provide larger double-bed suites to compete with rivals that are pouring money into high-end ...

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has seized 473 live and dead mud turtles, a protected species, smuggled into Thailand from Mexico in a shipment falsely declared as leather belts.

Heavy downpours are expected in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Songkhla on Sunday before expanding to almost all southern provinces along the Gulf of Thailand from Surat Thani.

Robinson, a subsidiary of SET-listed Central Retail Corporation, plans to invest 4.1 billion baht in 2027 to renovate shopping centres and introduce new locations.

FRANKFURT — After decades of making bumper profits in China, Germany's carmakers have run out of road and sales have slumped dramatically, forcing painful job losses at home.

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) - The Australian government has deployed a military transport aircraft to help Indonesia put out wildfires in Borneo that are causing toxic haze across the region, both countries have said.

Panadda "Boom" Wongphudee has sought to apologise to the public after being arrested at her house on Friday as her husband, Atip "Got" Anantawan, surrendered to authorities to fight serious charges, including public fraud and money laundry.

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brash campaign posters are still up on Israeli public buses -- images of him, US President Donald Trump and soaring warjets that laud the two leaders attacking Iran together.