A livestreamer appeared to be struck during a street argument in Bangkok with a tuk-tuk driver who objected to being filmed, in footage that has split viewers online.
Thai police raided four luxury housing estates in Bangkok on Oct. 10, targeting 94 homes worth more than 6 billion baht (YS$179 million) allegedly held for foreigners through Thai nominees.
Two Malaysian men could face the death penalty after police caught them with 32.73 kg of Erimin 5 pills worth RM3.3 million (US$808,000) at Kuching International Airport.
Vietnamese have overtaken Koreans as the second largest foreign group in Japan's census, turning a 2020 deficit of more than 51,000 residents into a lead of more than 210,000.
Long-term residents of Villa Las Estrellas, a Chilean settlement on Antarctica's King George Island, must have their appendix removed before moving in because the nearest major hospital is more than 1,000 km away.
A restaurant owner in China's Henan Province has given top-performing employees BMWs worth about 300,000 yuan (US$44,700) each after seeing them ride electric bikes to work in the cold.
A 60-year-old Chinese woman who once hauled her son out of internet cafes now plays Counter-Strike seven to eight hours a day and livestreams to more than 400,000 followers.
A 54-year-old renovation contractor from Malaysia's Sarawak state has won RM10.17 million (US$2.49 million) in a lottery jackpot on two numbers he said were inspired by a dream.
The Trump administration has opened an investigation into nine U.S. universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT, over alleged fraud in the J-1 visa program for foreign researchers and scholars.
The Japanese governor who said he wished Thai teqball coaches had not come to the Asian Games over a joke video about a small lunch has softened his wording, as Thailand's teqball association apologized for any offense.
Cadillac Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas cycled almost 420 km from Malaysia's Sepang circuit to Singapore over four days, arriving on Oct. 7 for the Singapore Grand Prix.
Six more freehold luxury apartments seized in Singapore's S$3 billion (US$2.3 billion) money laundering case will go under the hammer on Oct. 28, after only four of the first 26 properties offered at auction found buyers.
Thai customs officers detained an Indian passenger arriving from Jakarta at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after finding more than 1.3 kg of gold hidden inside a speaker.
South Korea plans to bar international students who lack a required Korean-language score from taking part-time jobs starting in 2028, after a one-year grace period, under a student visa overhaul its Justice Ministry announced this week.
Long queues formed at McDonald's outlets in Singapore on Oct. 8 for limited-edition merchandise tied to K-pop star G-Dragon, and one crowded outlet was seen with its shutters pulled down.
Thailand's Queen Suthida flew a Gripen fighter jet solo for the first time on Oct. 8, watched by King Maha Vajiralongkorn at an air base in Surat Thani Province.
Singapore collected more than S$639,000 (US$499,380) in unpaid fines from 265 foreign motorists at its land checkpoints in three days, weeks before it starts denying entry permits to vehicles with outstanding penalties.
Singapore's air pollution ranked the worst among the world's major cities on Oct. 7 as haze from Indonesian wildfires blanketed the region and prompted the neighboring Malaysian state of Johor to shut all its schools for two days.
A Singapore court on Oct. 6 sentenced an Indonesian seafarer to 10 months in jail and six strokes of the cane for trying to board a flight at Changi Airport with a knife hidden in his shoe.
