BEIJING, April 19 — China and Cambodia have agreed to build safe and stable supply chains together and to strengthen cooperation in transportation infrastructure, they said in a joint statement released by China's Foreign Ministry on Friday.

SINGAPORE, April 19 — Three Malaysian men, aged between 28 and 47, were arrested by the Singapore Police Coast Guard (PCG) yesterday for illegally entering waters off Pulau Sarimbun.

RIYADH, April 19 — The General Directorate of Public Security has announced that the implementation of Hajj arrangements and procedures will take effect on Wednesday (April 23), requiring all residents intending to enter Mecca to obtain a valid entry permit from the relevant authorities.

KYIV, April 19 — Ukraine imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies on Friday, claiming they were involved in the production of advanced Iskander missiles, a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy alleged that China had been supplying weapons to Russia.

AL-MUGHAYYIR, April 19 — Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing pressure from Jewish settlers who, she says, try to steal her family's sheep and come by regularly to tell her and her husband to leave.

TORONTO, April 19 — Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said that China is one of the largest threats with respect to foreign interference in Canada and is an emerging threat in the Arctic.

JAKARTA, April 18 — The Indonesian police stopped 10 people from travelling to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage using work visas, in what authorities say was an attempt to bypass the country’s official quota system.

DUBAI, April 18 — Iran told the United States (US) in talks last week it was ready to accept some limits on its uranium enrichment but needed watertight guarantees that President Donald Trump would not again ditch a nuclear pact, a senior Iranian official said on Friday.

BANGKOK, April 18 — Myanmar's State Administration Council chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and the country's National Unity Government's Prime Minister Mahn Win Khaing Than have pledged to extend the ceasefire in the country and ensure the safety of humanitarian workers, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

DHAKA, April 18 — Dhaka has demanded a formal apology from Islamabad for the atrocities committed by the Pakistani military during the 1971 war, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh, reported the German News Agency.

JAKARTA, April 18 — Indonesia will increase imports of US food and commodities and reduce orders from countries the Southeast Asian nation currently buys the products from, chief economic minister Airlangga Hartarto told reporters in Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 18 — US President Donald Trump yesterday signalled a potential end to the tit-for-tat tariff hikes between the US and China that shocked markets, and that a deal over the fate of social media platform TikTok may have to wait.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 — Nvidia on Tuesday said it would take US$5.5 billion (RM24 billion) in charges after the US government limited exports of its H20 artificial intelligence chip to China, a key market for one of its most popular chips.

BENGALURU, April 18 — Chinese tea chain Chagee secured a valuation of US$6.2 billion (RM27 billion) after its shares gained 21 per cent in their Nasdaq debut yesterday, defying volatility stemming from the United States' trade war with Beijing.

MOSCOW, April 17 — Russia today suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.

YANGON, April 17 — Myanmar's State Administration Council pardoned over 4,900 prisoners in an amnesty today, the first day of the Burmese New Year, Xinhua reported.

MOSCOW, April 17 — The trade war initiated by United States (US) President Donald Trump could cost Germany €290 billion (RM1.45 trillion) by 2028 — equivalent to an annual loss of 1.6 per cent of the country's gross domestic product.

PHNOM PENH, April 17 — Cambodia is betting on more financial support from China, including for infrastructure, as President Xi Jinping visits the country today at the end of a three-nation trip in Southeast Asia, a Cambodian government spokesman said.

HANOI, April 17 — Vietnam aims to raise its total installed power generation capacity to 183 to 236 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, up from more than 80 GW at the end of 2023, the government said yesterday, citing details of an amended national power development plan.

BOSTON/LONDON, April 16 — Global shares fell today, with gold trading at record highs and the dollar languishing, as United States restrictions on chip sales to China and continued tariff uncertainty battered tech stocks.