KUALA LUMPUR — After more than two years of relative political stability in Malaysia, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim faces multiple hurdles that could fuel discontent within his ruling coalition.

IPOH – About 15 students from Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) were killed after the bus they were travelling in collided with another vehicle along the East-West Highway (Jalan Raya Timur-Barat, JRTB), near the Banjaran Titiwangsa...

SEOUL – Following South Korea’s presidential election on June 3, a seemingly innocuous act by one of the nation’s most celebrated actresses ignited a storm. Actress Song Hye-kyo pressed “like” on President Lee Jae-myung’s then-election camp...

SINGAPORE – While it is widely accepted that men and women would have major biological differences on a molecular and cellular level, a landmark study led by A*Star has found similarly significant variations between different Asian ethnicit...

Taiki Naito wants Takeru Segawa next – in a battle of “overrated versus underrated” in ONE Championship’s flyweight kickboxing ranks.

Jonathan Di Bella has hit out after watching Prajanchai PK Saenchai share a face-off with Aliff Sor Dechapan in the ring at Lumpinee Stadium – a move that all but confirmed he’s been snubbed for a title unification bout.

LONDON - Prolific British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, who instantly became a global bestselling author when his book "The Day of the Jackal" was published in 1971, died on Monday aged 86, his literary agents Curtis Brown said.

RENNES (FRANCE) - The owners thought the sculpture perched for years on the corner of a piano was a Rodin copy, but after being declared as the real thing the small marble figure has now sold for one million dollars at auction, organisers s...

OTTAWA - Canada's military used aircraft to help evacuate members of a remote Indigenous group Monday as wildfires spread eastward from the Prairies region and into the country's most populous province Ontario.

THITU ISLAND – Every morning at 7am, Filipino government worker Elmer Bania steps into his office and looks out the window facing the sea. Just beyond the horizon, he spots the grey and white silhouettes of Chinese-flagged vessels – uninvit...