NEW YORK, Sept 29 — A Singapore-style hawker centre has opened in New York for the first time, bringing flavours from the Southeast Asian island's mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and other cultures to an American food court.

JAKARTA, Sept 28 — Asean’s high-level task force is now in the process of charting future direction beyond 2025 for the 10-member grouping, Asean secretary-general Datuk Lim Jock Hoi said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for sustainability and pandemic preparedness at the ongoing 41st Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

RIYADH, Sept 28 – Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz named his son and heir Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the kingdom's prime minister and his second son Prince Khalid as defence minister, a royal decree showed on Tuesday.

BANGKOK, Sept 27 — Thailand's government plans new borrowing of about 820 billion baht (US$21.64 billion) in the 2023 fiscal year starting October 1, mainly to finance a budget deficit, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, as it tries to bolster economic recovery.

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 — The developing East Asia and Pacific countries are projected to grow by 3.2 per cent this year, the World Bank said Monday.

BANGKOK, Sept 27 – Asian tourists are only expected to resume international travel at pre-pandemic levels gradually, by 2024, the new chief executive of online travel agency Agoda said late on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR Sept 27 — Saudi Arabia has invited the Malaysian business community to invest in various projects under the kingdom's Vision 2030 and to take advantage of the facilities granted by the country to foreign investors, especially that Vision 2030 includes many new and attractive investment opportunities.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 — The Asian economic system, as a whole, is resilient against any financial turmoil, said the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

ISTANBUL, Sept 27 — Japan on Tuesday held a state funeral to honour its former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinated in July during an election campaign, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to provide at least U$14 billion between 2022 and 2025 to ease the worsening food crisis in Asia and the Pacific.

BANGKOK, Sept 27 — Thailand's economy is expected to grow 3.1 per cent this year, higher than a forecast in June of 2.9 per cent, supported by private consumption and exports, the World Bank said on Tuesday.

ANKARA, Sept 27 — Turkey said on Monday that Malaysia and Indonesia had expressed keen interest in buying armed drones from Turkish defence firm Baykar, which has supplied the weapons to several countries after battlefield successes.

RIYADH, Sept 27 — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah (MOHU) on Monday launched a new digital platform called "Nusuk.sa" to facilitate the arrival procedure for Umrah pilgrims from all over the world coming to Makkah and Madinah.

TOKYO, Sept 27 – With flowers, prayers and a 19-gun salute, Japan honoured slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday at the first state funeral for a former premier in 55 years - a ceremony that has become as divisive as he was in life.

LONDON, Sept 27 – Britain will gradually see coins, banknotes and stamps bearing the image of King Charles, while the new monarch's cypher will also appear on government buildings and red mail pillar boxes, manufacturers and Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday.

HOUSTON (United States), Sept 27 — NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid Monday night in an effort to one day save the Earth, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

BANGKOK, Sept 26 — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has recently gained the spotlight of the Global Trade Growth Atlas 2022 as it is forecast to lead the world in export growth over the next five years.

SINGAPORE, Sept 26 — The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said on Monday that the country's manufacturing output increased 0.5 per cent year-on-year in August, compared to a revised 0.8 per cent increase in July and a 2.6 per cent gain in June, reported Yonhap.

BULACAN, Sept 26 — Philippine authorities rushed on Monday to distribute aid to thousands of evacuees after typhoon Noru made landfall in the capital and northern provinces, leaving at least five dead and many areas flooded.