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BANGKOK: Consistently the crownholder of Southeast Asia’s most visited country, Thailand came close in 2019 to a symbolic threshold it had never reached before: 40 million tourists. It narrowly missed ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (Jun 29) the 12-day war with Iran had created opportunities for Israel, and ...

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BANGKOK – Thai investigators have concluded that flaws in the design and construction methods caused the collapse of a partially built Bangkok building that killed at least 89 people during a massive ...

Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen has launched a flurry of personal attacks on Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in what analysts say is an attempt to deflect international scrutiny over ...

China has partially lifted a years-long blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports effective immediately, Chinese customs authorities said late Sunday. The General Administration of Customs of China in a ...

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Pakistan and China are in advanced discussions to establish a new regional organisation aimed at promoting integration and connectivity across South Asia, potentially replacing the long-dormant South ...

The acquisition also reflects strong backing from TPG Capital Asia, an investor in Altimetrik, which views the merger as a step toward creating a scalable platform for enterprise innovation. The move ...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday questioned the federal government's decision not to become a party in the ongoing US legal case involving Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. The court demanded a clear ...

He adds, "That's going to be a hard road for some of us who have [higher costs] than panels made over in China or Southeast Asia." Since 2022, when Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, ...