Nepal yesterday launched a nationwide tiger census, a key step in conservation efforts to aid the recovery of the big cats that once faced near extinction in the Himalayan nation.

The populist party founded by Thailand’s former leader Thaksin Shinawatra nominated his nephew yesterday as its top choice for prime minister in the upcoming election.

Heavily armed militants looted several banks in Pakistan’s Balochistan province yesterday before clashing with security forces, with one policeman and a civilian killed, authorities told AFP.

Indonesia will revoke more than 20 forestry permits across the country, the forestry minister said yesterday, after deadly floods and landslides devastated parts of the northwestern island of Sumatra.

Hong Kong’s High Court yesterday found tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces in the city’s highest-profile trial under a China-imposed national security law that could see him jailed for life.

'Nobody has seen her in over two years. She hasn't been allowed contact with her legal team, never mind her family,' he says

Thailand announced a curfew in its southeastern Trat province yesterday as fighting with Cambodia spread to coastal areas of a disputed border region, two days after US President and would-be peacemaker Donald Trump said the sides had agreed to stop.

MEA says India has never allowed its territory to be used for activities against Bangladesh

Cambodia shut its border crossings with Thailand yesterday, after Bangkok denied US President Donald Trump’s claim that a truce had been agreed to end days of deadly fighting.

Myanmar’s military junta yesterday denied killing civilians in a hospital air strike that left more than 30 people dead.

Tens of thousands rallied for the party of Nepal’s ousted prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, yesterday, in the largest gathering in the Himalayan country since youth-led anti-graft protests forced him out three months ago.

On December 13, 2025, the Thai military used two F-16 fighter jets to drop seven bombs

The former head of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency will appeal a 14-year hard labour sentence on charges including abuse of power, his lawyer said Friday, decrying a “sham” military trial.

Beijing’s actions are “not conducive to regional peace”, Japan’s defence minister and US counterpart Pete Hegseth agreed during a call after Chinese aircraft locked radar on Japanese jets near Taiwan, Tokyo said yesterday.

Thailand’s prime minister dissolved parliament yesterday, paving the way for general elections early next year as deadly border clashes continue with neighbour Cambodia.

Fighting raged yesterday along the border of Cambodia and Thailand, with explosions heard near centuries-old temples ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned phone call to the leaders of both nations.

At least 15 people, including Thai soldiers and Cambodian civilians, have been killed in the reignited border conflict, officials say

Changing tariffs will also affect South Korea, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and Brazil

It comes after a huge blaze last month engulfed several high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong

This week's clashes are the deadliest since five days of fighting in July that killed dozens