India is drawing a growing global clientele with its reliable, low-cost launches. Last week, an Indian-built rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), made headlines by launching 20 satellites successfully into space. Most were for foreign customers, including the US, Canada and Indonesia.
The Indonesian military will have a bigger budget this year to add more firepower to its arsenal in the air, on land and sea after Parliament yesterday agreed to raise the country's defence kitty for this year.
Indonesian prosecutors are demanding that a Singaporean boat captain, caught trespassing in Indonesia's waters, be jailed for eight years and his vessel blown up and sunk under the country's fishery laws.
Now that Britain has officially voted to leave the European Union, economists and analysts have begun giving their takes on what they expect will happen next.
Malaysia's richest state Selangor is in a flux. Last week, leaders of Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) and those from Parti Amanah Negara were throwing insults at one another in the heat of campaigning in the Sungai Besar by-election in north-west Selangor.
Hong Kong's richest man said China's economic outlook is bright in the long term, casting a vote of confidence in a country that's growing at its slowest pace in a quarter century.
With a referendum for Britain's future in the 28-member European Union around the corner, Asia-Pacific economists are bracing for a possible Brexit and its implications.
The number of stateless children born to refugees is rising in Hong Kong, where claims from asylum-seekers have more than tripled in the last two years, alarming residents and lawmakers.
When Fumiko Kasai returned to work a decade ago she found Japan's job market was very different to the one she had left in the 1980s to raise her four children.
Singapore sovereign wealth funds bought US$1 billion (S$1.38 billion) of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding's shares as part of a US$8.9 billion sale by Japan's SoftBank Group, Alibaba's biggest shareholder, the company said on Wednesday (June 1).
Smoke was detected inside an EgyptAir plane shortly before it plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, investigators said Saturday (May 21), offering clues but no answers as to why it crashed.
Blogger Monica Xu first began writing about lipstick on social media out of personal interest in 2014, as she was preparing for postgraduate studies in fashion.
Indonesia says it will stop sending new live-in maids abroad from as early as next year. Its authorities want domestic workers to live separately from their employers in dormitories, work regular hours, and get public holidays and days off.
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong begins a four-day working visit to the Russian Federation on Tuesday (May 17).
It's election time in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. And for voters, it means just one thing: freebies.As campaigning for assembly elections intensifies, voters are being showered with promises of gold and smartphones, free laptops and free Wi-Fi.
Nissan Motor confirmed on Thursday (May 12) that it was in capital tie-up talks with scandal-hit Mitsubishi Motors, as local media reported that the deal would be an effective acquisition.
A day after being hailed as victor in the Philippine presidential race, maverick anti-crime mayor Rodrigo Duterte vowed to keep his campaign promises.
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