TOKYO, April 30 — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said that he took his party's failure in the three recent by-elections to the Japanese Parliament's Lower House very seriously but was not planning to dissolve the legislature, reported Xinhua.

BEIJING/MANILA, April 30—The Philippines has accused China's Coast Guard of harassing and damaging one of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea, and rejected Beijing's position that it had expelled two vessels from the hotly contested shoal.

JAKARTA, April 30 — Indonesia may offer dual citizenship to people of Indonesian descent to entice more skilled workers into the country, a senior cabinet minister said today.

SINGAPORE, April 30 — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has improved its Asia and Pacific region growth forecast to 4.5 per cent this year, up 0.3 points from the previous projection in October, partially due to carryover from stronger 2023 outturns and policy support.

BEIJING, April 30 — Elon Musk made progress towards rolling out Tesla's advanced driver-assistance package in China on a whirlwind weekend trip to Beijing, sending the company's shares soaring more than 16 per cent on Monday.

CAIRO, April 30 — Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of Palestinians on Monday as Hamas leaders visited Cairo for a new round of truce talks, with more than half the dead in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which foreign leaders have urged Israel not to invade.

NARATHIWAT, April 29 — All routes along the Malaysia-Thailand border area in the districts of Tak Bai, Sungai Golok, and Weng have been temporarily closed following a bomb explosion and shooting incident that injured four police officers.

BANGKOK, April 29 — As Thailand and Brunei commemorate their 40th anniversary in diplomatic relations this year, the two nations are looking forward to further strengthening the bilateral cooperation and bolstering economic cooperation.

JAKARTA, April 29 — Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto and Malaysian Prime Minister (PM) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim agreed to propose collaboration between Asean and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as a new economic power, reported ANTARA News Agency.

BANGKOK, April 29 — A Thai court sentenced a prominent jailed activist lawyer today to two more years in prison for royal insults relating to a speech he made at a 2021 protest.

JAKARTA, April 29 — Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, welcomed Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Bogor Palace, West Java, today morning.

KOTA BHARU, April 29 — Four Thai security personnel were injured in the bomb explosion and gunfire which occurred a little after midnight yesterday in Kampung Pasemas at Sungai Golok, in Narathiwat Province, Thailand.

MOSCOW, April 29 — US-based World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity said on Sunday it was resuming operations in the Gaza Strip while continuing to mourn the death of seven workers killed in an Israeli strike on April 1.

CAIRO, April 29 — Israeli air strikes on three houses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed 13 people and wounded many others, medics said on Monday.

RIYADH, April 28 — The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Special Meeting commences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today to find solutions to a host of global challenges relating to humanitarian issues, the climate, and the economy.

TORONTO, April 28 — Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of United States (US) university campuses yesterday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, among other demands.

MOSCOW, April 27 — The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested Dzhumokhon Kurbonov, the twelfth defendant in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack case, who will remain in custody until May 22.

JAKARTA, April 27 — Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has affirmed that her country must join multilateral efforts to prevent Southeast Asia from becoming a haven for human traffickers targeting Indonesian citizens "It is so important for us to cooperate to ensure that our region will...

TAIPEI, April 27 — Taiwan has reported renewed Chinese military activity near the island today, with 12 aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, a day after United States (US) Secretary State Antony Blinken ended a visit to China.

BANGKOK, April 27 — Thailand has called for regional bloc Asean to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar after weeks of fighting near its border that halted trade and led to a brief influx of refugees.