LONDON, March 1 — The historic Coronation Chair on which Henry VIII and other monarchs of England and later Britain have been crowned for some 700 years is getting a makeover ahead of this year's ceremony for King Charles, London's Westminster Abbey said.

HANOI, Feb 27 — Vietnam's National Assembly will hold an extraordinary meeting this week, a session that officials and diplomats expect to confirm the appointment of a new president amid a leadership reshuffle prompted by a sweeping crackdown on graft.

MELBOURNE, Feb 27 — Lynas Rare Earths Ltd said it was focused on getting its new plant in Australia up and running amid concerns its Malaysian facility would have to be partly wound down, as it posted a four per cent drop in first-half profit on Monday.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 27 — Dimension-hopping adventure "Everything Everywhere All at Once" grabbed the top movie trophy at the Screen Actors Guild awards, a major predictor of success at next month's Oscars.

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SYDNEY, Feb 26 — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted 29 km east-northeast of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea, at 21:24:48 GMT on Saturday (February 25), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

NEW YORK, Feb 26 — Roger Ng, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc banker convicted for helping to embezzle Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, appealed to a New York court on Saturday not to force him to spend more time in prison.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 25 — Malaysia has strongly condemned the attack by the Israeli occupation forces in Nablus on Wednesday, killing at least 11 Palestinians and injuring more than 100 others.

ANTAKYA/ANKARA, Turkiye, Feb 25 — Turkiye has begun work to rebuild homes following this month's devastating earthquakes, a government official said on Friday, as the combined death toll in Turkiye and Syria surpassed 50,000.

ISTANBUL, Feb 25 — At least 44,218 people have been killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Turkiye on February 6, the country’s disaster management agency said on Friday.

SINGAPORE, Feb 24 — Singapore’s total manufacturing output decreased 2.7 per cent in January 2023 on a year-on-year basis, said the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), a government agency under the republic’s Ministry of Trade and Industry.

JAKARTA, Feb 24 — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern province of North Maluku on Friday morning, but did not cause casualties or damages, authorities said.

BANGKOK, Feb 23 — Thailand and Cambodia agreed to step up cooperation to combat the rise of call centre scams in the two countries.

JAKARTA, Feb 23 — Indonesian authorities have seized a total of 220kg of syabu in a series of raids in South Sulawesi and Aceh, that are linked to drugs from Malaysia.

JAKARTA, Feb 23 — Egianus Kogoya, the dreadlocked rebel behind the kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot this month in the highlands of Indonesia’s Papua region, is at the vanguard of an increasingly dangerous and media-savvy insurgency for independence.

BEIJING, Feb 23 — An earthquake of about 7.2 magnitude shook Tajikistan at 8.37am (0037 GMT) on Thursday at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), Chinese state television CCTV reported, citing the China Earthquake Networks Center.

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 — The death toll from the powerful February 6 earthquakes in southern Turkiye has risen to 43,556, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Wednesday.

SYDNEY, Feb 23 — An Australian regulator has sent legal letters to Twitter and Google telling them to hand over information about their efforts to stop online child abuse, drawing them into a crackdown that has already put pressure on other global tech firms.

BERLIN, Feb 22 — Dismissing mounting evidence that a Russian missile downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, news anchors on Russian state-owned TV are shown voicing alternative theories in a new documentary: one claims a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down the plane; another suggests the aircraft was floored by aliens.

WELLINGTON, Feb 22 — Another wave of severe weather has hit southern New Zealand and trapped athletes of an ongoing seven-day ultramarathon, as North Island residents are cleaning the mud left by Cyclone Gabrielle, reported Xinhua.