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TAIPEI: Taiwan wants to ensure its partners have reliable supplies of semiconductors, or "democracy chips", President Tsai Ing-wen told the governor of the US state of Indiana on Monday (Aug...

TAIPEI: United States Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Friday (Aug 19) that China's actions around Taiwan increase the level of risk, and he hoped that China's behaviour returns...

DIVERSE BUSINESS EMPIRE After attending university in the late 1980s, Xiao began selling computers and in the decades that followed built an empire with diverse interests including banking and insurance....

SYDNEY: An Indonesian man jailed for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds of people has had his sentence reduced, Australia's prime minister said on Friday...

JAKARTA: An Indonesian man jailed for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds of people could be released on parole in the coming days after the latest...

When was 377A introduced and why? Section 377A was introduced to Singapore’s Penal Code in the middle of 1938 when it was under British rule. It reads: “Any male person...

Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 summit in Bali in November, Indonesian President Joko Widodo told Bloomberg News on Thursday (Aug 18). “Xi...

Let's get you up to speed with the day's stories. The Federal Court denied a request by Najib Razak's lawyer to discharge himself from representing the former PM in his...

BEIJING: China firmly opposes trade talks between the United States and Taiwan and says it will take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests, the...

BEIJING: It is "reasonable to conclude" that forced labour of members of minority groups has taken place in China's western Xinjiang region, the UN's top expert on slavery said in...