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Nation
Anwar to meet Prabowo and Thaksin in Langkawi
SUBANG JAYA: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be meeting Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in Langkawi to discuss regional strategic issues and Asean developments.
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Focus
Do we need a revolution in the Philippines?
The world’s most established democracies and entrenched autocracies are experiencing an unprecedented degree of systemic vulnerability.
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Focus
Editorial: Is Indonesia abandoning Asean?
This is the second time since Prabowo’s inauguration that Indonesia has sent a concerning message to its regional neighbours.
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Focus
The Trump-Xi bromance has a chance in 2025
If they play their cards right, that is. It could create the right environment for an improvement in ties between the two superpowers.
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Focus
Thailand’s role in UN Human Rights Council
It is a cause for elation for the country and an opportunity to set an example for good practices.
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Nation
Huge surge in tourists from India
KUALA LUMPUR: The visa exemption for Indian nationals has resulted in a 223% increase in visitors from India, says Immigration Department director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban.
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Pakistan
16 soldiers killed in militant raid
Militants launched a brazen overnight raid on an army post near the Afghan border, two intelligence officials said, killing 16 soldiers and critically wounding five more.
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India
Doctor rape trial to go on
An Indian man on trial for raping and murdering a 31-year-old doctor has pleaded not guilty, his lawyer said, a crime that appalled the nation and triggered wide-scale protests.
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Myanmar
Rebels capture western command
A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has captured a military regional command in Rakhine state, it said, in what would be a major blow to the junta.
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South Korea
Rival protests over Yoon held in Seoul
Demonstrators supporting and opposing South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol held rival protests several hundred metres apart in Seoul, a week after he was impeached over his short-lived declaration of martial law.
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North Korea
Kim calls for industrial push outside Pyongyang
Supreme leader Kim Jong-un called to step up development of the country’s industrial production in regions outside Pyongyang to strengthen rural economies, state media KCNA said.
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AseanPlus News
Outgoing Biden authorises US$571mil in military aid
US President Joe Biden approved US$571.3mil (RM2.57bil) in defence assistance for Taiwan, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Indonesia
Indonesians embrace return of plundered treasure
In the mid-19th century, Dutch colonial officials climbing an Indonesian volcano spotted an ancient statue meant to serve as protection against misfortune, looted it, and took it to the Netherlands.
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Thailand
Ritual for the dead brings emotional closure
When two-month-old Bibeam died in November 2023, the temples in her district would not cremate her, considering her too young for such a ceremony.
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China
Seven Chinese nationals arrested near US military site
Seven Chinese citizens were arrested on charges of illegally entering Guam around the time the US Missile Defense Agency conducted a key missile interception test using a new radar, the island’s Customs and Quarantine Agency has said.
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AseanPlus News
Tennis - Australian Open to provide platform for pickleball, one of the fastest growing sports, from 2025
The Australian Open will embrace one of the fastest growing sports in the world when it hosts the inaugural AO Pickleball Slam on the final weekend of next month's tennis major with US$100,000 in prize money.
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AseanPlus News
Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Germany rises to five and more than 200 injured
Germans on Saturday mourned the victims and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people, including a small child, and wounding at least 200 others.
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AseanPlus News
Sumo wrestler Hiyori Kon brings sport to Argentina, fights for women’s place in the ring
Hiyori Kon was profiled in the Netflix documentary Little Miss Sumo.
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AseanPlus News
Aukus, other China-related priorities likely to survive Trump, top US envoy says
‘We will see more areas of continuity in the Indo-Pacific’ than perhaps any other region, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell says
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Thailand
Thailand's Air Force deploys F-16s as unidentified aircraft seen near Thai-Myanmar border
Errant plane vanishes after two military jets from Nakhon Sawan sent to Tak border to intercept intruder.
