KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — The Asean - Japan Midori Cooperation Plan would further strengthen regional cooperation in assisting member states to deal with climate-related challenges in the agricultural sector, said Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Ichiro Miyashita.

SINGAPORE, Oct 7 — Singapore is likely to experience haze over the weekend if the fires in Sumatra persist and the wind direction is unfavourable, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said.

MUMBAI, Oct 7 — India has sent notices to social media platforms X, formerly known as Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram, asking them to ensure there is no child sexual abuse material on their platforms, the government said on Friday (October 6).

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 — Two senior Republican lawmakers in the United States (US) House of Representatives on Friday (October 6) pressed the Biden administration for tougher enforcement of export controls on sending advanced computing chips and the tools to make them to China.

JAKARTA, October 7— The perennial issue of transboundary haze has again sparked friction in Southeast Asia, with Malaysia's environment minister writing to the Indonesian government this week calling for a regional response to the toxic smoke drifting across his nation.

BANGKOK, Oct 6 — The Thai government and the private sector have collaborated to provide 14.15 million baht (RM18 million) in compensation to the families of the victims who died or were injured in the shopping mall shooting incident in Bangkok.

SINGAPORE, Oct 6 — Singapore’s digital economy has experienced strong growth, contributing an estimated 17.3 per cent of the republic’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022, up from 13 per cent in 2017.

JAKARTA, Oct 6 — Authorities in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan have officially declared a state of emergency for the next ten days starting today, following severe air pollution and reduced visibility caused by ongoing forest and land fires, said Governor H.

JAKARTA, Oct 6 — Indonesia is dousing forest fires with water sprayed from helicopters and inducing rain through cloudseeding, its environment minister said on Friday, but denied that hazardous haze was crossing borders, as neighbouring Malaysia has said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — Southeast Asian agriculture and forestry ministers have agreed to take collective action to minimise and eventually eliminate crop burning in the region amid deteriorating air quality and concern about cross-border haze.

BANGKOK, Oct 5 — The police arrested four men, including a father and his son, who were suspected of selling a modified pistol and ammunition to a teenage gunman who went on a shooting rampage at Bangkok's Siam Paragon Mall which caused two people dead and five others injured.

MOSCOW, Oct 5 — Thai authorities will review all the laws concerning the use of weapons and their possession following the recent shooting in the shopping mall by a teenager, reported Sputnik.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — Thailand ranked first in the list of the most favoured destinations by family travellers for summer 2023, according to 12Go, an online travel agency primarily based in and serving the Asian travel market by selling tickets online for buses, ferries and trains.

ISTANBUL, Oct 5 (Bernama-AA) -- Japan's meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning early Thursday for the Izu island chain after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean.

ISTANBUL, Oct 5 — Spain, Portugal and Morocco will jointly host the 2030 World Cup, FIFA said on Wednesday.

LONDON, Oct 5 — The current year is on track to be the warmest on record, according to the European Union's Climate Change Service Copernicus on Thursday,  German news agency (dpa) reported.

AHMEDABAD, India, Oct 5 — Abu Dhabi-based International Holding Co (IHC) has increased its stake in Adani Group’s flagship incubator Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) to above five per cent, with its holding is now more than US$1.7 billion, as per closing price on Oct 4.

TOKYO, Oct 5 — Japan began the second phase of the discharge of treated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, after the first phase was carried out within the established safety limits between Aug 24 and Sept 11.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that the strong post-pandemic passenger traffic trend continued in August, with the total traffic (measured in revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) rising by 28.4 per cent year-on-year compared with August 2022.

BANGKOK, Oct 4 —The teenage gunman who was suspected of killing two people and injuring five others inside Bangkok's Siam Paragon Mall used a pistol that was modified to fire real bullets.