Geopolitics will be an immediate challenge for Japan’s 102nd prime minister, who will be officially sworn in by the Diet on Oct 1, as the embattled Mr Kishida bows out over…
After the sudden shift to Sharia law under the first Taliban regime was met with Western backlash, Afghanistan’s rulers are now moving gradually to tighten their hold.
Failure to rehabilitate hundreds of families is hurting both their well-being and wildlife, say conservationists.
The most straightforward reason for the country’s long and early Yuletide season lies in its psychological framework to prepare and count the days to celebrate big occasions.
Autonomous vehicles grow in popularity despite concerns over safety, reliability.
Why do Karachi's roads cave in each time it pours? The answer lies somewhere between negligence and indifference.
Prabowo Subianto takes over on Oct 20 as Indonesia’s eighth president since independence. The Straits Times speaks to Indonesians across the archipelago on their fulfilled –…
With neighbour disputes escalating in South Korea's fire-wary apartments, smart EV chargers are a proposed fix, but compatibility issues remain a challenge.
Lebanese officials told Reuters Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations. The operation was…
Spies can be businessmen, expats, collaborators of local think tanks, diplomats, academics who used to work in the defence and security sector, janitors, and even politicians and…