A Singaporean man has been jailed in Australia for five years and nine months for manslaughter after he drove over and killed a man who stole a backpack from his rental car.
Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi's remains were stored in two pots and a refrigerator after her body was dismembered in a village flat in 2023, the city's High Court has heard.
Singapore's Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is investigating about 45 companies involved in Changi Airport operations over suspected work pass offenses after an inspection found holders of passes meant for foreign professionals handling baggage.
An Audemars Piguet watch worth about 46 million yen (US$291,300) that a man tried on and ran off with at a Tokyo shop has been returned by courier with a handwritten apology.
Thai police have arrested the director of a Bangkok company behind a website called Taobao Thailand over an unlicensed yuan exchange and payment service for people buying goods from China.
Early shoppers lined up as 118 Mall opened in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 1 at the foot of Menara Merdeka Maybank, formerly Merdeka 118, the world's second tallest building.
Officers at Singapore Changi Airport found 5,272 vaporizers and related components in the luggage of four arriving foreign travelers last week, the largest haul from four days of stepped-up checks at the country's checkpoints.
Nonagenarian Japanese bodybuilder Toshisuke Kanazawa took to the stage on Spain's Costa del Maresme on Friday, aiming to prove that age is no barrier to peak physical fitness.
Sincere, Hong Kong's first Chinese-owned department store, will close its Central branch in early December after failing to renew the lease, leaving the 126-year-old retailer with a single department store in Mong Kok.
Smoke from forest and land fires across Indonesia caused an estimated 3,560 deaths in September, more than double the August figure, a Helsinki-based think tank said.
South Korea's foreign resident population climbed past 2.66 million in 2025, or more than one in 20 people in the country, as the number of international students surged.
A Hong Kong court sentenced a triad-linked teenager to eight years in prison on Oct. 29 for throwing acid on a Singaporean tourist in return for a promised HK$10,000 (US$1,270).
Thailand has stripped Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, a leader of its Jewish community, of his citizenship, saying he kept using his U.S. nationality after being naturalized.
South Korean actor Yoon Dae-yeol shut off two gas cylinders after a restaurant explosion in Incheon, west of Seoul, preventing further damage, police said.
A former Scoot crew supervisor was sentenced to 11 months' jail in Singapore on Oct. 27 after taking nearly SGD65,000 ($50,700) of the budget airline's in-flight food and beverage sales proceeds.
China's old-age dependency ratio overtook the child dependency ratio for the first time in 2025, meaning its working-age population now supports more people aged 65 and above than children.
Malaysian border officers detained a husband and wife at the Causeway checkpoint in Johor Bahru on Oct. 27 on suspicion of trying to take cash worth US$719,300 to Singapore.
More than one in 10 men in a Malaysian survey on dating costs said they had borrowed money to pay for dates, and nearly six in 10 said they usually pick up the whole bill.
