The media was locked out yesterday on the first day of the blasphemy trial of Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama.
Nearly 10,000 people in the Malaysian states of Kelantan and Terengganu have been evacuated due to floods, amid the annual monsoon season.
Canadian idol Shawn Mendes, 18, (with awards host Bebe Rexha, left, and Swedish singer Zara Larsson) beat his countryman Justin Bieber to win Best Male at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday.
Canadian singer Michael Buble and his Argentinian actress wife Luisana Lopilato said on Facebook last Friday that their three-year-old son has cancer and that they are putting their careers on hold to help him. They did not say what kind of cancer their son is suffering from. They have a second son, born in January.
Oscar-winning director Lee Ang had no qualms casting rookie actor Joe Alwyn in the titular lead role of his new movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
Hsia Meng, the great beauty of 1950s Hong Kong cinema who was renowned as martial arts novelist Jin Yong's muse and unattainable love, has died, said Apple Daily. She was 83.
Two thousand, two hundred tonnes of rubbish - equivalent to the combined weight of more than 300 adult African elephants - is dumped into rivers, drains and waterways of Malaysia every month.
Senator Bernie Sanders capped off a tumultuous first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) with a speech that urged his supporters to back Mrs Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee, while also continuing to fuel his political revolution.
The long-awaited High Speed Rail connecting Singapore and Kuala Lumpur is targeted to be up and running by around 2026, cutting the travelling time between both cities to 90 minutes.
Johor's water regulatory body Badan Kawalselia Air Johor (Bakaj) has made an an urgent request for an additional supply of 6 million gallons of treated water per day for the next three days, PUB said on Sunday (July 17).
Bak kwa sold in Bangkok shops have been found to have excessive levels of preservatives, a report said.
As the Pokemon Go game reaches new levels of obsession and popularity worldwide, a man in New Zealand has decided to quit his job to "catch 'em all" full-time.
It was almost midnight and President Rodrigo Duterte was in full flight at a news conference as he singled out a married TV reporter and told her: "You're again trying to catch my attention, aren't you?" Then, as she was asking him a question, he catcalled and tried a brief serenade. Most in the room laughed.
The tender for the High-Speed Rail (HSR) project linking Kuala Lumpur to Singapore is expected to be called within a year from the signing of an initial agreement tomorrow, said Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.
Mr Lu Hengjiu, 35, used to spend hours playing online games, accumulating 10,000 yuan (S$2,016) worth of virtual assets at one point.
The opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) has lodged a police report following a rowdy protest outside its headquarters on Tuesday by Malay activists.
Mrs Theresa May, who takes over today as Britain's new Prime Minister, faces a daunting agenda: She has to negotiate her country's exit from the European Union (EU), a deeply controversial process. And she could be confronted with an economic downturn.
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