MOSCOW, Nov 11 — US tech corporation Apple added over US$190.9 billion (RM883.39 billion) in market capitalisation, as its shares rose 8.9 per cent Thursday trading, setting a record for American companies, trading data showed.

BANGKOK, Nov 11 — Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have largely overcome the Covid-19 threat and resumed socio-economic activities, three years since the global Covid-19 pandemic hit the world..

PHNOM PENH, Nov 11 — Leaders of Southeast Asian nations began an annual summit on Friday that is likely to be dominated by Myanmar's escalating violence and political gridlock, with increasingly frustrated members of the group struggling to get the country's junta to comply with an agreed peace plan.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 11 — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has agreed in principle to admit East Timor as the group's 11th member, the bloc said in a statement on Friday.

TOKYO, Nov 11 — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has firmed up his intention to sack his justice minister, media reported on Friday, raising the possibility of a second minister leaving the cabinet because of a scandal in less than a month.

SEOUL, Nov 11 — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol left for Cambodia on Friday on the first leg of a two-nation tour that will include his attendance at various summits involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and the Group of 20 (G-20), Yonhap news agency reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — The working visit by US President Joe Biden to attend the Asean-related summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia starting Saturday (November 12), is set to herald in a new phase in the US-Asean relations.

SEOUL, Nov 11 — Jin Air Co, the South Korean budget carrier unit of Korean Air Lines Co, said Friday it will open the Busan-Kota Kinabalu route next month as travel demand recovers amid eased Covid-19 virus curbs.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — The United States (US) will continue to pressure Myanmar’s regime until it ceases violence on its people and puts the country back on the democratic path.

ANKARA, Nov 11 — Several top executives resigned from Twitter amid potential risks stemming from billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of the social media company and implementing new policies, former workers said Thursday.

JAKARTA, Nov 10 — Indonesia will take the lead as Asean Chair in 2023 with the theme "Asean Matters: Epicentrum of Growth", said President Joko Widodo.

MANILA, Nov 10 — The Philippines' economy expanded by 7.6 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2022, reported Xinhua, quoting the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Thursday.

JAKARTA, Nov 10 — Indonesia plans to move the regulation, supervision and oversight of cryptocurrency investments to the Financial Service Authority (OJK) to better protect investors, its finance minister said on Thursday.

ANKARA, Nov 10 — Bitcoin saw its price dive below US$16,000 (RM75,272) late Wednesday as a major sell-off in the crypto market intensified after Binance backed out of a potential deal to buy its rival FTX, which is in financial turmoil, reported Anadolu Agency.

MOSCOW, Nov 10 — Deaths caused by Covid-19 globally have decreased by almost 90 per cent compared with February, although the rates of testing and vaccination remain low, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

SINGAPORE, Nov 10 — Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will lead the Singapore delegation to the 40th and 41st Asean Summits and Related Summits for four days until November 13 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, according to the republic Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

BEIJING, Nov 10 — A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Medog County in Nyingchi City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, at 1.01pm Thursday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC).

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 10 — Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook, said on Wednesday that it would lay off 13 per cent of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees.

SUVA, Nov 9 — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 jolted south of the Fiji Islands at 0938 GMT on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 — Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, has taken responsibility for the upcoming massive layoffs that are set to take effect on Wednesday, Sputnik quoted the Wall Street Journal report.