ISTANBUL, March 17 — China said Thursday that Washington has not provided any evidence that the popular video sharing app TikTok is a threat to US national security.

TOKYO, March 17 — Japan's government is closely coordinating with the Bank of Japan and financial authorities overseas to prevent fallout from the crisis of confidence engulfing banks in the West, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday.

WASHINGTON, March 17 — TikTok is in talks with potential buyers after the Biden administration threatened to ban the video-sharing platform nationwide if Chinese owners did not sell their stakes, The New York Post reported citing sources familiar with the matter.

NEW YORK, March 17 — Oil prices rebounded on Thursday, recouping some of the massive losses they had suffered in recent days.

MOSCOW, March 17 — Singapore will soon be able to import 1 gigawatt of low-carbon electricity from Cambodia in what will become the country's largest electricity import to date, the Singaporean Energy Market Authority said on Thursday.

SINGAPORE, March 16 — Singapore will be revising toll charges at the Tuas Checkpoint from March 31, 2023, to match Malaysia’s recent revision of toll charges at the Tanjung Kupang Toll Plaza on the Second Link highway.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — Strong and united messages from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) member states including Malaysia are needed to counter the illegal cyber threat activities by North Korea.

SINGAPORE, March 16 — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday the city-state would work with Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as partners like the United Nations, to push Myanmar's military rulers to implement a stalled peace plan.

BANGKOK, March 14 — Scammers in Thailand pocketed 31.58 billion baht (RM4.10 billion) in various scams and financial fraud over the past 12 months.

MOSCOW, March 14 — OPEC has upgraded its forecast for the global oil demand growth in 2023 by 30,000 barrels per day to 2.3 million barrels per day, according to its fresh report published on Tuesday as reported by Sputnik.

JAKARTA, March 14 — Asean Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn on Monday said a common currency and monetary union for the region are not a priority right now, as there are many other agendas that need attention.

SEOUL, March 14 — Trade ministers of South Korea and Malaysia discussed ways Tuesday to deepen cooperation on supply chains of key raw materials and to boost bilateral trade by launching a regular dialogue channel.

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Reuters, March 14 — China will begin re-issuing various categories of visas to foreigners from March 15, the Chinese Embassy in the United States said on Monday, as the country continues to re-open its borders after three years of Covid-19 containment measures.

NEW YORK, March 14 — Oil prices fell sharply on Monday as traders remained concerned over contagion from the collapse of US lender Silicon Valley Bank.

ANKARA, March 13 — The death toll from powerful earthquakes that struck southern Turkiye last month has risen to 48,448, the country’s interior minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 — The US government will not bail out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday (March 12), as systemic 'contagion' worries spread across the venture capital and technology industries.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today congratulated Li Qiang, who was appointed as China’s 8th Premier.

JAKARTA, March 12 — Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupted on Saturday, spewing a hot cloud up to seven kilometres, the country's disaster management agency said in a statement.

BEIJING, March 11 — Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China's premier, the country's No.2 post, putting the close ally of President Xi Jinping in charge of reviving an economy battered by three years of Covid-19 curbs.