DENPASAR, Indonesia: Donning yellow “Bali” hats featuring a surfer as the last letter, Chinese tourists walked along the Indonesian backpacker hotspot’s pristine blue waters, forgetting three years of COVID-19 misery. Exploring turtle island, taking day trips to neighbouring Lombok and hitting Bali’s famed beaches, the…

SEOUL: North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday (Feb 2) that joint drills by the United States and its allies have pushed the situation to an “extreme red-line” and threaten to turn the peninsula into a “huge war arsenal and a more critical war zone”.…

MANILA: The Philippines has granted the United States expanded access to its military bases, their defence chiefs said on Thursday (Feb 2), amid mounting concern over China’s increasing assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea and tensions over self-ruled Taiwan. Washington would be given access to…

Mr Hamzah, who is also Leader of the Opposition, said that his party is disappointed that the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional (BN) government is using the MACC to achieve its aim to “kill” Bersatu and Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) credibility. “Bersatu expresses its regret…

NEW DELHI: India’s Adani Enterprises called off its US$2.5 billion share sale on Wednesday (Feb 1), citing market conditions, amid an ongoing rout in the wider Adani Group’s stocks which was sparked by a US short-seller’s critical report. “Given the unprecedented situation and the current…

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States staged joint air drills featuring an American strategic bomber and stealth fighter planes in response to threats from North Korea, the Yonhap news agency said on Thursday (Feb 2). The planes flew on Wednesday over the Yellow Sea…