Deadly floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Yagi have affected nearly six million children across Southeast Asia, the UN said Wednesday, as the death toll from the disaster rose.

With the total damage caused by powerful typhoon Yagi estimated to exceed VNĐ50 trillion (US$2 billion) across the country, the Government has issued a resolution outlining six measures to accelerate recovery.

North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles Wednesday in its latest show of force, just days after an unprecedented public release of photos showing its uranium enrichment facilities capable of producing nuclear weapons material. The m...

Thailand booked their place in the knockout stages of the Fifa Futsal World Cup in Uzbekistan after defeating Cuba 10-5 in their second Group B match on Tuesday night.

Busanan Ongbamrungphan advanced to the second round of the US$2 million BWF China Open in Changzhou on Wednesday.

Laura Siegemund of Germany reached the quarter-finals of the US$267,082 Allied Thailand Open tennis tournament, edging Wang Xiyu of China in a more-than-four-hour-long, three-set marathon at Arena Hua Hin on Wednesday.

THE HAGUE - An international law enforcement operation has dismantled an encrypted communication platform, known as Ghost, notorious for enabling large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, Europol said on Wednesday.

BEIRUT - Hundreds more people were wounded on Wednesday in fresh blasts involving handheld radios used by Hezbollah, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions launched via the group’s pagers.

TAIPEI: Taiwan's national security team is "paying great attention" to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the island's defence minister said, after a Taiwanese firm was linked to the pagers' production.

The opening of parts of Nusantara to the public following years of closed-door construction has whipped up enthusiasm and drawn visitors, including foreign tourists, to the country’s future capital in East Kalimantan.