SINGAPORE – There will be no hard cap on how long a migrant worker can work here from July 1, 2025, in a move that is set to reshape Singapore’s foreign workforce for years to come.

SEOUL – When Sean Baker took home four statuettes at this year’s Oscars—a feat unmatched since Walt Disney in 1954 —it cemented the director’s reputation as cinema’s preeminent chronicler of the sex worker community.

TOKYO – Some bullet train services were temporarily suspended Thursday after cars on a Tohoku Shinkansen train become disconnected. East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) is investigating the details.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the free-spending New York Yankees ruled MLB, winning numerous World Series, then-Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino hung the tag "Evil Empire" on the Yanks.

Football Association of Thailand president Nualphan Lamsam visited the headquarters of the world governing body, Fifa, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday and had a discussion on various issues for the development of Thai football.

Kunlavut Vitidsarn will face China's world No.13 Weng Hongyang in the first round of the All England Open after a draw for the US$1.45 million (approx 49.3 million baht) BWF World Tour 1000 event was announced on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump boasts he has brought illegal border crossings into the United States to record lows, but experts say the reasons for the drop go beyond his hardline anti-immigration stance.

BUENOS AIRES - Four years after Argentina became the first big Latin American country to legalize abortion, women are finding it hard to access terminations due to President Javier Milei's "chainsaw" economics and anti-feminist diatribes, c...

DAMASCUS - Fierce fighting between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad killed 48 people on Thursday, a war monitor said.

TOKYO – The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry presented a draft proposal of a guideline that requires advertisers to ensure the proper distribution of online advertisements, at an expert panel on Monday.