NEW YORK, Oct 11 — The US dollar appreciated in late trading on Monday as market participants awaited a key US inflation report, reported Xinhua.

SINGAPORE, Oct 10 — Singapore authorities have taken action against the former deputy chief executive officer (CEO) of BSI Bank Ltd, Singapore Branch (BSIS) for his contribution to the bank’s failure to file suspicious transaction reports (STRs) regarding 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-related transactions.

BANGKOK, Oct 10 — CNN apologises for filming at the crime scene of a knife and gun rampage at a childcare centre in Uthai Sawan, Nong Bua Lamphu and removed the video from its website.

TOKYO, Oct 10 — As Japan throws open its doors to visitors this week after more than two years of pandemic isolation, hopes for a tourism boom face tough headwinds amid shuttered shops and a shortage of hospitality workers.

UTHAI SAWAN, Oct 10 — A three-year-old child who managed to survive last week's massacre at a nursery in northeast Thailand slumbered through the horror under a blanket in the corner of a classroom.

BANGKOK, Oct 9 — Thai police is investigating claims that CNN crew members were filming at the crime scene of a knife and gun rampage at a childcare centre in Uthai Sawan.

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand, Oct 8 — Hundreds of people gathered in temples in northeast Thailand on Saturday, offering candles, toys and prayers to mark the lives of more than 30 mostly child victims of a gun and knife rampage that sent shock around the world.

JAKARTA, Oct 8 — Indonesia will not be sanctioned by FIFA following the October 1 tragedy at Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang, East Java that claimed 125 lives, including children, said the country’s president Joko Widodo.

UTHAI SAWAN, Oct 7 — Family members and relatives on Friday were seen laying white roses on the steps of the childcare centre, which was the scene of Thursday’s knife and gun rampage in Uthai Sawan in Nong Bua Lamphu province, about 500 km northeast of Bangkok.

SINGAPORE, Oct 7 — Vaccination remains Singapore's primary line of defence as it forges ahead and learns to live with Covid-19, according to the republic’s Ministry of Health (MOH) today.

SYDNEY, Oct 7 — Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia's east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days.

JAKARTA, Oct 7 — Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves fell by US$1.4 billion last month to US$130.8 billion due to payments of foreign debt and the central bank's effort to stabilise the rupiah currency, Bank Indonesia (BI) said on Friday.

JAKARTA, Oct 7 — Six people including police and match organisers are facing criminal charges in Indonesia over a stampede at a football game at the weekend that killed at least 131 people, the country's police chief said on Thursday.

BANGKOK, Oct 7 — A sacked policeman killed 37 people including 24 children in a shooting rampage at a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province in Thailand.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — Total global traffic for air travel, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), jumped 67.7 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in August 2022, showing continued momentum in the air travel recovery, said International Air Transport Association (IATA).

BANGKOK, Oct 6 — A former policeman killed 34 people including 22 children in a gun rampage at a daycare centre in eastern Thailand on Thursday, later shooting dead his wife and child at their home before turning his weapon on himself, police said.

JAKARTA, Oct 6 — The Kanjuruhan Stadium tragedy in Malang, East Java on October 1, was due to locked exit doors, said Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

SINGAPORE, Oct 6 — Wealthy mainland Chinese have been the top foreign buyers of expensive private properties in Singapore this year as the city-state reaps the benefits of post-pandemic reopening and a relatively strong currency, despite tax increases.

TOKYO, Oct 6 — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has jailed a Japanese documentary filmmaker for 10 years for violating sedition and communications laws, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Thursday.

TAIPEI, Oct 5 — China has destroyed a tacit agreement on military movements in the Taiwan Strait by crossing an unofficial "median line" running down the waterway, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday.