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PETALING JAYA • Malaysia’s Youth and Sports Minister has chided the Indonesian police force for downplaying the violence that broke

KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia is looking into the feasibility of cloud seeding to induce rain in areas which are currently

Malaysia’s administration has moved swiftly to calm communal tensions in the wake of a campaign calling for Muslims in the

India’s ambitious space programme suffered a setback after scientists lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft trying to land on the

Little Jamil bobbed in a white-tiled tank next to tubs of rehabilitating turtles with severed flippers or other injuries. The

NEW DELHI • Mr Arun Jaitley, the former Indian finance minister and one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s closest associates,

JAKARTA • Indonesia’s government extended the suspension of mobile-data services in Papua and West Papua provinces after riots broke out

A 12-member delegation of opposition leaders in the world’s largest democracy was turned away from the airport in Srinagar in

BANGKOK • The United States and 10 South-east Asian states will hold their first joint maritime exercises next month aimed

KUALA LUMPUR • Operations at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) seemed to be returning to normal yesterday, days after

JAKARTA • Indonesian rescuers found three people dead and evacuated 300 from the blazing wreckage of a ferry off the

HANOI • A Chinese survey vessel yesterday extended its activities to an area closer to Vietnam’s coastline, ship tracking data

GENEVA • Iran has test-fired a new missile, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Major-General Hossein Salami, said yesterday, according

SEOUL • North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast

SINGAPORE – Grocery and delivery start-up Honestbee has announced the appointment of its new chief executive, close to three months

SINGAPORE – MUFG Bank on Monday (July 29) appointed Goh Sok Kim as managing director and deputy head of its

SINGAPORE – After years of running mixed martial arts events, Temasek Holdings-backed One Championship is now sinking its teeth into

SINGAPORE – Apartment development Min Yuan, a 27-unit residential with commercial on its first storey has been put up for

SINGAPORE – Prices of completed private apartments and condominiums in Singapore dipped 0.7 per cent in June from the previous

SINGAPORE – For the quarter ended June, the four largest Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (S-Reits) that own office assets

LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – It’s one of the world’s most exclusive clubs, known over the years as the Syndicate, the Central

SINGAPORE – Freehold Watten Estate Condominium will be up for collective sale on July 30 with a reserve price of

SINGAPORE – Mainboard-listed electric transport group BM Mobility (BMM) has called for an immediate suspension in the trading of its

SHANGHAI (BLOOMBERG) – Billionaire Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses,

WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump announced on Friday that a “landmark” asylum agreement has been reached with Guatemala, as the