BANGKOK, 14 Feb — Malaysia is to participate in this year’s Cobra Gold, world’s longest running and largest multinational military exercise in Southeast Asia, which is back to full scale after downsized over the last three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

JAKARTA, Feb 14 — Indonesia evacuated 120 of its citizens as well as two Malaysians and a Burmese national, who were trapped in several regions in the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes in Turkiye early last week.

CHIANG MAI, Feb 14 — The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) expects air travel in the Asia-Pacific region to see full recovery by the first quarter of 2024, returning to 2019 pre-pandemic level amidst the global headwinds.

JAKARTA, Feb 14 — Asean is looking to expand its single window initiative with Japan to boost two-way trade this year, as both sides mark the 50th anniversary of their bilateral relations this year, Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn said.

MANILA, Feb 14 — The Philippines on Tuesday filed a diplomatic protest calling on Beijing to ensure its vessels cease 'aggressive activities' after Manila accused China's coast guard of trying to block one of its ships in the South China Sea using a laser.

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GAZIANTEP (Turkiye), Feb 14 — The two "Batang Kali heroes" in Malaysia’s search and rescue (SAR) team to Turkiye are always prepared to serve even though they are on foreign land.

TOKYO, Feb 14 — A soft-spoken academic with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kazuo Ueda — Tokyo's nominee for next Bank of Japan governor — is a pragmatist who knows how to turn policy ideas into reality.

GAZIANTEP (Turkiye), Feb 14 — The Malaysian search and rescue (SAR) team in Nurdagi here have not allowed extremely cold conditions to hinder them from carrying on with their mission of searching for earthquake victims there.

ANKARA, Feb 13 — At least 31,643 people in Turkiye were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted the country’s southern areas on Feb 6, the disaster agency said on Monday.

HYDERABAD, Feb 13 — A total of 175 youth leaders from 10 Asean member countries and India convened here on Sunday for the 4th Asean-India Youth Summit with the theme Strengthening Asean-India Partnership in the Indo-Pacific.

ANTAKYA/ELBISTAN, Feb 13 — Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkiye and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over building collapses.

BANGKOK, Feb 12 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has urged Asean to explore new strategies and approaches in resolving the ongoing crisis in Myanmar.

GAZIANTEP, Feb 12 — The Malaysian MAS-01 Smart and MAS-10 teams, on the seventh day of search-and-rescue efforts following the deadly earthquake in Turkiye, will focus on scouring collapsed buildings and rubble around Nurdagi, in the hope of finding more survivors.

ANTAKYA,/JANDARIS, Feb 12 — Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkiye and Syria on Saturday (February 11), five days after one of the region's worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher.

GAZIANTEP, Feb 12 — Members of the Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Smart) were struck by disbelief and shock when they discovered and rescued five members of a family who were trapped in the rubble of their residential building for the past six days on Saturday as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit this area.

JAKARTA, Feb 11 — A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off North Sulawesi province in Indonesia on Saturday, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

GAZIANTEP (Turkiye), Feb 11 — The MAS-01 SMART team found six bodies of earthquake victims in a seven-storey hotel and residential building that completely collapsed in Nurdagi here on Friday.

REUTERS, Feb 11 — Argentina forward Lionel Messi is on the shortlist for the FIFA Best Male Player award, joined by Paris St Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, football's world governing body announced on Friday.

NEW YORK, Feb 11 — The death toll rose to 20,318 with more than 80,000 thousand wounded from Monday's devastating earthquakes in southern Turkiye, Anadolu Agency (AA) quoted the country's disaster agency Friday.