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North Korea Says U.S.-Led Military Buildup Justifies More Nukes — But Its Nuclear Infrastructure Is Expanding Too

BEIJING / SEOUL — September 17, 2026 — North Korea has delivered one of its clearest warnings yet that it intends to…

Business

MUFG Put ₱36.9 Billion Into Security Bank 10 Years Ago — Now Its Manila Branch Can Do Much More, But the Two Banks Say They’re Not Merging

Business

G-SHOCK Is Pitching Five Watches at Filipino Commuters — But Two Can Run About 10 Years on One Battery

Entertainment

Tokyo Marathon Champion Ruti Aga Has Been Provisionally Suspended — But the Drug Finding Isn’t the Only Charge

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Asia

Asia

North Korea Says U.S.-Led Military Buildup Justifies More Nukes — But Its Nuclear Infrastructure Is Expanding Too

Asia

MUFG Put ₱36.9 Billion Into Security Bank 10 Years Ago — Now Its Manila Branch Can Do Much More, But the Two Banks Say They’re Not Merging

Asia

G-SHOCK Is Pitching Five Watches at Filipino Commuters — But Two Can Run About 10 Years on One Battery

Asia

Tokyo Marathon Champion Ruti Aga Has Been Provisionally Suspended — But the Drug Finding Isn’t the Only Charge

Asia

Japan Says It Will Defend Orderly Yen Trading After ¥155 Slide — But the Real Test Comes From the BOJ Tomorrow

Politics

Politics

Trump Targets Democrats on Crime and ‘Communism’ as He Campaigns for GOP Senate Candidate in North Carolina

Politics

The Fed Just Raised Rates to 3.75%-4.00% — But Asia May Not Follow Washington Into a New Tightening Cycle

Politics

Bangkok Mansion Rented for ฿900,000 a Month Allegedly Used as Scam Call Center Targeting Japan

Politics

Malaysia PM to Invite Myanmar Leader for Talks on Rohingya Repatriation

Politics

Kim Yo Jong Rejects IAEA Calls for North Korea Denuclearisation

Lifestyle

Lifestyle

Calligrapher Kim Do-im Turns a Seoul Hotel Rooftop Into a Space for Calligraphy and Meditation

Lifestyle

Indonesia’s Unusual Conservation Experiment Pays Villagers to Photograph Wildlife Instead of Hunting

Lifestyle

Inside a Mid-19th-Century Victorian Villa in West Chelsea

Lifestyle

Singapore Air Quality Improves as Haze Risk Persists, NEA Warns

Lifestyle

Ellen Adarna Says Viral Bundles of Cash Are John Lloyd Cruz’s Monthly Support for Their Son

Entertainment

Entertainment

From “Shine” to Survival: PENTAGON Marks 10 Years After a Decade of K-Pop Highs, Scandals and Setbacks

Entertainment

From Safari to Zombies: Everland Turns Daytime Wildlife Adventures Into a Nighttime Horror Experience

Entertainment

Tokyo Game Show Sees Sharp Drop in Chinese Exhibitors as Japan-China Ties Cool

Entertainment

Nagoya Says Its Asian Games Container Rooms Are ‘Functional’ — But Athletes Say Beds Are Too Short and Sinks Are Leaking

Entertainment

Travellers Reminded to Update MyICA App for Enhanced Singapore Arrival Card

Business

Business

PanStar Reached Europe Through the Arctic in Just 21 Days — But Its Ship Left Korea Only About 30% Full

Business

A Singaporean Lent His S$330,000 MG Cyberster to a K-Drama — But the Show’s Title Is Still Under Wraps

Business

Design Miami Seoul Draws More Than 12,000 Visitors as Collectible Design Sales Surge

Business

Singapore New Private Home Sales Slow in August Amid Launch Lull

Business

Japan Is Adding a 25% Charge to 1,042 Prescription Drugs — But Cancer, Children and Long-Term Patients Get Major Exemptions

Sport

Sport

In-Form Miwa Harimoto Ready to Lead Japan’s Women’s Table Tennis Charge at Asian Games

Sport

HYROX Refunds Athletes After Beijing Race Incident Sparks Safety Review and Rule Changes

Sport

Aaron Judge Just Returned From a 99-Day Injury Layoff — Now Another Tightness Scare Has the Yankees Holding Their Breath

Sport

Athletes to Watch at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya

Sport

Singapore Football Is Adding 1,500 Seats at Jalan Besar — But Forrest Li Says One Historic Qualification Is Only the Beginning

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Philippines

Philippines

Rodrigo Duterte Appeared Before ICC Judges for the First Time in 18 Months — But One Major Question Is Still Unresolved Before His November Trial

Philippines

Duterte Appears Before ICC Judges for First Time

Philippines

Manila Police Deny Carrying Guns at the Anti-DOLE Rally — But Philippine Law Is Explicit About Armed Cops at Protests

Philippines

DND Chief Urges Philippines to Fortify Infrastructure as Disasters Become More Severe

Philippines

Rains to Sweep Visayas and Parts of Mindanao as ITCZ, LPA Bring Thunderstorms

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore Opens Tender to Transform Former SCGS Site Into New Orchard Road Lifestyle Hub

Singapore

Singapore MOE to Pilot Smaller Classes and New Teacher Roles in Six Schools

Singapore

3 in 5 Hoarding Cases at One Singapore Agency Return — But Another Group Cut Recurrence Below 5%

Singapore

Singapore Scientists May Have Found 20 New Species in the Deep Indian Ocean — But What They Saw 5,000 Metres Down Wasn’t All Natural

Singapore

G-Dragon’s Toy Story Pop-Up Opens in Singapore One Day Before BigBang’s Stadium Shows

Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan’s Highest ATM Now in Service at 2,240 Meters — And It Comes With an Apple-Shaped Sign

Taiwan

Taiwan Steps Up North America Tourism Push as Taipei Targets More Long-Haul Visitors

Taiwan

Cathay Financial Turns to AI to Transform Taiwan’s Wealth Management Market

Taiwan

Taiwan Labor Minister to Attend China APEC Meeting as ‘Chinese Taipei’ Amid Cross-Strait Tensions

Taiwan

Taiwan Phishing Scams Nearly Double in a Year as Losses Surge Past NT$54 Million

Thailand

Thailand

The Protest Leader Behind Bangkok’s 2008 Airport Shutdown Is Back — But This Time He Says He Isn’t Trying to Topple the Government

Thailand

Thailand May Delay ฿4 Billion Tourism Stimulus Until April 2027 as Government Rethinks Timing

Thailand

Thailand Warned of a Potential Fiscal Crisis as Debt, Ageing and Slow Growth Squeeze Government Finances

Thailand

Thailand’s Skill Bridge Targets More Than 80,000 Workers as Economy Races Toward High-Tech Industries

Thailand

Thailand’s New Oil Plan Targets Energy Security While Backing Net-Zero 2050

Malaysia

Malaysia

Malaysia Teen, 14, Crashes Family Car Into Two Vehicles in Penang

Malaysia

Malaysia Raises Unsubsidised Fuel Prices Again as Middle East Tensions Push Oil Higher

Malaysia

UMNO Wants GE16 Sooner After Johor and Negeri Sembilan Gains — But Zahid Says It Will Stay in Anwar’s Government Until the End

Malaysia

AirAsia Was Bought for RM1 and Became Asia’s Budget-Flying Giant — Now Malaysia Is Planning for What Happens If It Stumbles

Malaysia

Mother Remembers Daughter One Year After Malaysia School Tragedy

Indonesia

Indonesia

Hanwha Turned LGI’s Loss-Making Health Business Into Its Biggest Profit Engine — Now It Wants Indonesia’s Top Five

Indonesia

Sarawak’s 29 Semenggoh Orangutans Look Healthy Despite the Haze — But Past Borneo Fires Show the Damage Can Linger

Indonesia

Indonesia Just Got Its Third Finance Minister Under Prabowo — But Suahasil Must Chase 6% Growth Without Breaching the 3% Deficit Ceiling

Indonesia

108 Survived Indonesia’s Java Sea Ferry Disaster — But 129 People Are Still Missing Four Days Later

Indonesia

129 Still Missing After Indonesia Ferry Capsizes in Rough Seas — But Rescuers Are Preparing for a Critical Underwater Search

Japan

Japan

Nikkei Overstated Magazine Circulation by 2.5 Million Copies — But Advertisers Had to Catch It

Japan

Japan’s New Luxury Cruise Ship Has 229 All-Suite Cabins — But the ¥194,000 Getaway Isn’t on a Newly Built Vessel

Japan

A Fugitive From Japan’s 1970 Yodogo Hijacking Is Reportedly Dead — But Police Still Haven’t Closed His 56-Year Case

Japan

Nomura’s Wholesale Revenue Jumped 41% Last Quarter — Now Growth Has Slowed to Just Above Last Year

Japan

Takaichi Keeps Japan’s Finance, Foreign and Defense Chiefs — But a 1% Food Tax Plan Is Waiting for Her New Cabinet

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

The Fed Just Raised Rates and Signalled More Hikes — So Why Are Asian Stocks Going Up?

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Just Raised Its Base Rate to 4.25% — But Your Mortgage May Not Move Yet

Hong Kong

HD Construction Equipment Just Won a 45-Excavator Hong Kong Deal — But the Bigger Prize Is a HK$128 Billion Infrastructure Pipeline

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Wants 70,000 Northern Metropolis Homes in Five Years — But Only One of Its Two Biggest Targets Is Binding

Hong Kong

Apollo Is Providing $585 Million to Asia’s The Executive Centre — But Most of the Money Isn’t Going Into New Office

Vietnam

Vietnam

UK Eyes Role in Vietnam’s Infrastructure Boom as Metro Expansion Accelerates

Vietnam

Vietnam Is Lining Up 29 U.S. Deals With SpaceX, Chevron and More — But Many May Not Be Binding

Vietnam

Vietnam Hasn’t Sold a Sovereign Dollar Bond Since 2014 — Now It May Borrow US$1 Billion, but the Price Could Hit 7%

Vietnam

Tesla Just Made Its Biggest Move Yet in Vietnam—And It Could Change the EV Market

Vietnam

The Vietnam Curse Is Finally Broken: John Eriq Bonifacio Makes Philippine Pageant History

South Korea

South Korea

Korea Foundation Honors Former US Peace Corps Volunteers for Decades of Grassroots Diplomacy

South Korea

Jimin’s ‘Like Crazy’ Just Hit 1 Billion Filtered Spotify Streams — But It Actually Crossed a Different Billion Mark Two Years Ago

South Korea

RIIZE’s ‘Love 119’ Just Hit 100 Million Spotify Streams — But Its Next Big Test Arrives October 26

South Korea

EXO-CBX Won Temporary Freedom From INB100 — Now They’re Heading to China, But Two Legal Battles Still Hang Over Them

South Korea

“BTS’ ‘MIC Drop’ Just Hit 1.6 Billion Views Nearly Nine Years Later — But Its 2026 Numbers Tell an Even Bigger Story”

United States

United States

OpenAI Just Disclosed Six Cases of AI Going Off Script — But the Bigger Problem Is the AI Watching the AI

United States

Just 30% of American Airlines Seats Generate 50% of Revenue — But Its Most Exclusive First Class Is Disappearing

United States

US Needs a National Data Strategy for the AI Era — But Not China’s Centralized Model

United States

New Zealand’s Top Sovereign Fund Just Returned 14.17% — So Why Is It Warning U.S. Stocks Could Pull Back?

United States

Manchester United Surrender Two-Goal Lead in League Cup Loss to Brighton

China

China

China Urges Iran and US to Show Restraint and Resume Talks

China

China Weighs BYD Founder Wang Chuanfu for Xi-Trump Summit Delegation

China

Jimmy Lai Is Serving 20 Years and Won’t Appeal — Now His Son Is Betting on Xi Jinping’s Washington Visit

China

China Builds New Canal to Give Inland Guangxi Direct Access to Sea Routes

China

China Expands Restrictions on Overseas Travel in National Security Cases