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Defence chief Gilbert Teodoro said the threat of Beijing attacking the self-ruled island is something Manila is monitoring on a daily basis.

The government made changes to the Residential Property Act to ‘safeguard residential land for Singaporeans’.

Deputy House Speaker Pichet Chuamuangphan said election-winning Move Forward’s leader Pita Limjaroenrat will not be included in next week’s third vote for a premier.

Yuzo Yoshioka sustained injuries after he was pushed to the ground by the woman while walking alone in downtown Portland last month.

The US$0.60 seven-inch cheese pizza is the tip of the spear in Domino’s fight against rampant inflation that’s squeezing profits and pricing out customers.

The power needs of India’s data centres more than doubled in three years and the momentum doesn’t look set to slow any time soon – amid ‘resistance’ to supplying them with renewable energy from state-run distributors.

Having been used for nuclear tests and dumping by the US and French, the Pacific islands deeply oppose Japan’s plan and see it as a ‘nuclear legacy’ issue.

Six other victims were injured in the incident, which took place at a construction site on a busy street in the country’s largest city just before the Fifa Women’s World Cup opening match.

A Japanese LGBT rights group says they have seen a rising tide of hateful online rhetoric, particularly targeting transgender women, fuelled in part by contentious debate around anti-discrimination legislation that passed this year.

A tourist who saw Travis King’s dash says she thought it was a stunt, and that people in the tour group could not believe what had happened.

The budget for the Games has ballooned to A$6 billion (US$4 billion) – and would be double the estimated economic benefits to Victoria state.

The rapper, whose full name is Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair, was found guilty of attempting to promote ill will among racial and religious groups for his social media comments and videos.

The move comes as a fresh blow to Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat’s hopes of becoming the next Thai prime minister. Lawmakers are forbidden from owning shares in media companies under the kingdom’s constitution.

The development comes as the city state reels from a highly unusual series of misdeeds among MPs from both the long-ruling People’s Action Party and the Workers’ Party.

A new survey has found that nearly half of Japanese employees prefer working from home, with just 1.3 per cent favouring a traditional work schedule of being in the office.

Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock is back on dry land and looking forward to seeing his family in Australia again. But Bella the dog won’t be joining him.

After five years at the top, Japan has dropped to third place in the Henley Passport Index as the number of destinations its citizens can access without a visa fell.

Wellington’s attempts to maintain ‘a de facto non-alignment policy’ towards China are ‘rapidly becoming non-viable’, one analyst said – even as New Zealand strives to emphasise ‘open and honest dialogue’ in its ‘complex’ ties with Beijing.

The launch comes nearly a week after Pyongyang tested its latest Hwasong-18 ICBM, in a warning to the US.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the CEOs of US chips firms Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia on Monday, while a Washington-based industry group also urged the Biden administration to avoid placing further restrictions on China.