Daily Asia briefing

Israel’s military warned late on Tuesday that Iran had fired a new salvo of missiles towards the country and that anti-missile defences were active after a day of more than a dozen missile alerts. Following the warning,...

The US has deployed approximately 3,000 troops from its elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, signaling heightened military readiness amid rising regional tensions. This rapid deployment capability, honed over...

Richard Bookstaber, a financial analyst and former hedge fund and US Treasury insider who wrote A Demon of Our Own Design, the book that foreshadowed the 2008 financial crisis, warns that today’s financial system is even...

US President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell in recent days to its lowest point since he returned to the White House, hit by a surge in fuel prices and widespread disapproval of the war he launched on Iran, a Reuters...

Hong Kong authorities will be able to demand external technicians or any “specified person” decrypt electronic devices during national security investigations and may punish suspects who provide wrong passwords or falsel...

Iran’s veteran supreme leader and a host of other top figures and Revolutionary Guards commanders have been killed in US-Israeli strikes but the ruling system has maintained its ability to strategise and operate ⁠in the...

Denmark’s left-wing bloc headed by Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen won Tuesday’s general election but failed to secure a majority, as the Social Democrats posted their weakest showing in more than 120...

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro received permission on Tuesday from a top Brazilian justice to serve his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at home instead of in prison because of his failing health. The decisi...

Hong Kong’s legislature will retain the power to scrutinise boundary changes for the Northern Metropolis megaproject proposed by the executive branch, the city’s development chief has said, addressing concerns over propo...

Hong Kong authorities will launch advertisments and a transport guide to help elderly residents adapt to the revised HK$2 (26 US cents) transport fare scheme coming into effect next Friday, according to the city’s welfar...

Contractors could face fines of up to HK$400,000 (US$51,068) for failing to prevent smoking at construction sites in Hong Kong under a government proposal to improve safety following the deadly Tai Po fire last November....

Times of India World is tracking Economy & Trade developments tied to 'Avoid traveling if you are...': Immigration attorney on who should be concerned as ICE agents are deployed at airports.

Times of India World is tracking Economy & Trade developments tied to Indian woman says she was 'slapped by white girl' in Ireland in viral post: 'Out of the blue'.

Times of India World is tracking Economy & Trade developments tied to $1M to boss: Toronto Airport gold heist accused Arsalan Chaudhary pleads guilty to $20m theft, tells court what he did with money.

Times of India World is tracking Economy & Trade developments tied to Neil Armstrong’s 1966 Gemini 8 mission caught on camera: Newly released images show astronauts’ life-or-death struggle in space.

French financial prosecutors said on Tuesday that searches were carried out at several locations, including the Paris arm of Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild, as part of an investigation tied to revelations from t...

Miley Cyrus playfully labelled superfan and neighbour Alex Cooper "kinda creepy" during a Hannah Montana 20th anniversary special. Cyrus, celebrating the Disney show's milestone, teased Cooper for moving next door after...

A Chinese man who was spotted riding a modified electric bicycle powered by his pet dog has faced online allegations of animal abuse. A video clip that went viral online shows the man from eastern China’s Jiangsu provinc...

There is little chance the US could bring China to the table on any nuclear arms control agreements in the short term, despite upcoming leaders’ meetings this year, experts said on Tuesday, as the Trump administration pu...

Hong Kong will respond to uncertainty brought by intensifying geopolitical tensions “with openness rather than isolation”, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has pledged at an annual forum in Hainan, calling on economies t...

A flight attendant still strapped in her seat survived being thrown from an Air Canada plane that collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, her daughter said on Monday. It’s a “total miracle,” Sarah Lep...

The White House has not confirmed reports of potential meeting between US and Iranian officials in Islamabad, calling the situation sensitive and fluid. Mediating countries, including Pakistan, are reportedly attempting...

Land reclamation could make Antelope Reef in Paracels China’s largest outpost and the whole sea, think tank says.