From legal strides in LGBTQ rights to alarming rates of violence against women, Asia in 2024 witnessed progress in gender equality shadowed by stark reminders that systemic challenges remain. Thailand ...

A Pakistani groom's father took wedding grandeur to new heights by hiring a plane to drop millions of rupees over the bride's ...

Critics say youth-related reckless driving and poor vehicle maintenance cause more accidents. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to ...

Evolutionary biologist Huang Shi argues that lack of genetic diversity among East Asians suggests they are real ancestors of modern humans The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern ...

The construction process has begun for a railway that will connect China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, bypassing Russia. The ...

For the first time, principals of special education schools joined their mainstream counterparts at an annual appreciation ...

Japan's Cabinet approved on Friday a record 8.7-trillion-yen ($55-billion) defense budget for 2025 as the country accelerates ...

Globally, the study found that climate change added 41 extra days of dangerous heat in 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Mourners in India's capital gathered Saturday to pay their respects to former prime minister Manmohan Singh ahead of a state ...