REUTERS — Billionaire Elon Musk is proposing to proceed with his original US$44 billion bid to take Twitter Inc private, security filings showed on Tuesday, calling for an end to a lawsuit by the social media company that could have forced him to pay up, whether he wanted to or not.

PHNOM PENH, Oct 4 — Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn has emphasised the need to enhance Asean (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) connectivity, saying that a well-connected region is crucial to building an inclusive, sustainable and resilient Asean Community, according to a press statement released late on Monday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 — Former United States president Donald Trump is suing the Cable News Network (CNN) for using its platform to defame him in order to defeat him politically, according to a court document.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, Oct 3 — Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern-day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.

HANOI, Oct 3 — Tourism in Asean is on the road to recovery with hotel searches, occupancy rates and travel on the rising trend.

JAKARTA, Oct 3 — Indonesia's inflation rate in September accelerated to its highest since October 2015 due to higher transportation costs following a fuel price hike, statistics bureau data showed on Monday.

JAKARTA, Oct 3 — FIFA president Gianni Infantino has expressed his sadness over the football tragedy in Indonesia at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, in Malang, East Java, which left 125 people dead.

ANKARA, Oct 2 — The death toll from a stampede and riot at a football game in Indonesia rose to 174, Anadolu Agency quoted East Java police chief Nico Afinta on Sunday.

MALANG, Oct 2 — At least 129 people were killed and some 180 hurt at a soccer match in Indonesia as panicked fans were trampled and crushed trying to flee a riot, authorities said on Sunday, in what appeared to be the worst stadium disaster in half a century.

BANGKOK, Sept 30 — Thailand’s Constitutional Court today ruled that Prayuth Chan o-cha has not exceeded the 8-year tenure as prime minister.

NEW YORK, Sept 30 — The US dollar weakened in late trading on Thursday amid momentum in the euro and the British pound, reported Xinhua.

BANGKOK, Sept 30 — Thailand's Constitutional Court is due to deliver its verdict on Friday on a case that seeks to determine whether Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has already exceeded an eight-year limit as premier.

TOKYO, Sept 30 — Japan on Thursday signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) with Petronas on liquefied natural gas (LNG), including emergency measures, the industry ministry said.

HONG KONG, Sept 30 — Genting Group has emerged as a strong contender to unseat an incumbent Macau casino operator for a new license, analysts and executives say, unleashing possibly the biggest shakeup in the world’s largest gambling hub in over two decades.

LONDON, Sept 30 — The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced Thursday that it would cut 382 jobs as part of wider staff reductions to BBC World Service.

REUTERS, Sept 29 — A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday sentenced deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her former economic adviser, Australian Sean Turnell, to three years in prison, a source familiar with the proceedings said.

GENEVA, Sept 29 — The World Economic Forum (WEF) Community of Chief Economists said on Wednesday it expects reduced growth and stubbornly high inflation to continue in the remainder of 2022 and 2023, while real wages will keep falling, reported Anadolu Agency.

VIENTIANE, Sept 29 — Typhoon Noru, which has weakened and been downgraded to a tropical storm, has made landfall in Laos and caused flooding in southern Laos' Attapeu province.

NEW YORK, Sept 29 — Despite the many crises of the past two years, e-government strategies have been advanced although many countries and municipalities have fallen short in providing adequate online services, according to a new UN survey whose results were released on Wednesday.

ROME, Sept 29 — Vietnam may become a “new tiger” in Asia, according to Italy’s La Repubblica daily after the World Bank raised the Southeast Asian country’s growth forecast.