TOKYO, Jan 3 — Airlines were forced to cancel over 300 flights following the collision between a Japan Coast Guard aircraft and a Japan Airlines passenger plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening.

WASHINGTON, Jan 3  — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged maximum restraint Tuesday from all parties following the assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh Arouri in Lebanon.

SEOUL, Jan 3 — Samsung Electronics Co said Wednesday it will unveil new Galaxy S series smartphones later this month, with a focus on artificial intelligence, Yonhap news agency reported.

SEOUL, Jan 3 — South Korean opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck on Tuesday by a man who lunged at him with a knife after asking for his autograph, officials said.

WAJIMA, January 2 — A powerful earthquake which hit Japan on New Year's Day killed at least 48 people, with rescue teams struggling in freezing temperatures today to reach isolated areas, where many people are feared trapped under toppled buildings.

TOKYO, Jan 2 — Five Japan Coast Guard crew were killed following the collision between their aircraft and a Japan Airlines aeroplane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, reported Xinhua quoting local media today.

TOKYO, Jan 2 — A Japan Airlines jet was engulfed in flames at Tokyo's Haneda airport today after a possible collision with a Coast Guard aircraft, with the airline saying all 379 passengers and crew had been safely evacuated.

ANKARA, Jan 2 — At least 4,119 Palestinian school students have been killed and 7,536 others injured in the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Palestinian Education Ministry said on Tuesday.

JAKARTA, Jan 2 —Indonesia has reduced its 2023 budget deficit significantly to 347.6 trillion rupiah (YSS$22.47 billion), equivalent to 1.65 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), based on unaudited figures, its finance minister said on Tuesday The unaudited deficit was far smaller than the...

TOKYO, Jan 1 — A series of strong earthquakes, with major ones measuring up to 7.6 magnitude, struck the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

LONDON, Jan 1 — Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and used the internet to buy the poison that killed her, a coroner has said, reported PA Media/dpa.

ISTANBUL, Dec 31 — The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees reiterated on Saturday that Gaza is grappling with catastrophic hunger and nearly half of the population is at a risk of famine, reported Anadolu Agency.

BANGKOK, Dec 30 — The devastating floods in southern Thailand have claimed at least 12 lives, with over 18,000 households in the Pattani, Narathiwat, and Yala provinces still grappling with flooding.

SACRAMENTO, Dec 30 — Elon Musk's X failed to block a California state law on Thursday (December 28) requiring social media companies to publicly disclose how they moderate certain content on their platforms.

JAKARTA, Dec 30 — Indonesia will impose a new tax on e-cigarettes on Monday (January 1) onwards, adding to an excise tax to help curb vaping, the Finance Ministry said yesterday.

BEIJING, Dec 29 — China's defence ministry lashed out at the United States US) yesterday, a week after their top military officials resumed high-level talks, criticising its continued meddling in the Asia Pacific region and saying it maintained a "Cold War" mindset.

BANGKOK, Dec 27 — At least six people have died and nearly 70,000 households affected by the floods in five provinces of southern Thailand.

BANGKOK, Dec 27 — Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has pledged to deepen Thai-Malaysia ties through enhanced cooperation, aiming to bring tangible benefits and improved well-being to people in both countries, especially along the border.

BANGKOK, Dec 26 — Torrential downpours have unleashed widespread flooding across southern Thailand, displacing nearly 20,000 households as rising waters swamp homes and cut off villages in five provinces — Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani, Songkhla, and Satun.

JAKARTA, Dec 26 — The death toll from a fire at an Indonesian nickel smelter has risen to 18 as of today from 13 on Sunday (December 23), said the local police, while operations at the smelter remain suspended as authorities investigate the cause of the incident.