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Zin Mar Nwe stabbed her employer’s elderly mother-in-law 26 times after the older woman threatened to send Zin back to her employment agency, the High Court heard.

July 04, 2023 3:50 PM

Strategic cooperation with Australia on electric vehicle batteries was a priority, said Jokowi.

July 04, 2023 3:50 PM

Working in hospitals as nurses and doctors is now the only jobs for women in Afghanistan.

‘Hot-bedding’ involves sharing a mattress with a stranger and usually while sleeping in shifts. It’s increasingly being used by migrants and international students to combat the high cost of living and housing crisis.

July 04, 2023 2:50 PM

There is now a 66% likelihood the annual mean will cross the 1.5 deg C threshold for a whole year.

July 04, 2023 2:12 PM

Dozens of homes and roads were damaged in north-west China by torrential rains on the weekend.

July 04, 2023 2:10 PM

The body was found in the bathroom of a hotel in the downtown area of Sapporo.

‘The constitution stresses a Malay-Malaysia’, said two-time prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, as he predicted Anwar Ibrahim’s government would ‘collapse’ if it didn’t follow the Democratic Action Party’s ‘manifesto’.

July 04, 2023 1:47 PM

Military service in Taiwan was extended to one year from four months.

Analysts say the SCO summit will be a chance for Mr Putin to show the world that he is still in command.

Another heatwave has descended on northern Vietnam, leaving exhausted farmers with little choice but to take to their waterlogged fields in the dead of night, to sew rice by the light of their headlamps.

Anthony Albanese backs the "always winning" Australia side amid controversy over a key wicket.

July 04, 2023 12:45 PM

The nomination is seen as a compromise between the two biggest members of the eight-party coalition.

July 04, 2023 12:37 PM

A total of 24 Chinese warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, were spotted near Taiwan.

July 04, 2023 12:10 PM

Users of the service get rented clothes delivered to their hotels.

July 04, 2023 12:05 PM

North Korean state television and newspapers showed people at theatres and other locations without masks.

July 04, 2023 11:58 AM

Hong Kong police issued arrest warrants for eight overseas-based activists on Monday.

July 04, 2023 11:40 AM

The authorities from both sides are working towards a year-end launch in Singapore and Indonesia.

Observations of a ferocious class of black holes called quasars have shown how time in the early universe passed only about one-fifth as fast as it does today – proving Einstein, and fictional time traveller Dr. Who, correct.

July 04, 2023 11:20 AM

Only 61% of SpiceJet’s flights departed on time from the country’s four biggest airports in May.