SEOUL – To enhance the nation’s digital skills and competitiveness, South Korea is rolling out a new initiative aimed at improving digital capabilities among adults aged 30 and older. The government ...

SEOUL – The news that novelist Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature came as a wonderful surprise to the Korean people. We feel it’s been a long time coming: Whereas Japan already has ...

JAKARTA – Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) chairman and the youngest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, Kaesang Pangarep, announced the birth of his first child, a daughter, on Tuesday. Kaesang ...

KUALA LUMPUR – “HE was in drag?” I asked a Datuk friend of mine who attended Singaporean stand-up comedian Kumar’s show in Kuala Lumpur on Friday night. My friend sent me a photograph of Kumarason ...

BANGKOK – He is among the 18 iCon Group executives facing the charge of scamming people and disseminating false information via a computer system. Of the detainees, the CEO and 11 executives were ...

The streaming company also said in the past that they will also continue to work with top creators in Malaysia, such as MIG Productions and Infinitus among others, to bring more Malaysian content to ...

MANILA – The Philippines and the United States held an amphibious assault exercise in Aborlan, Palawan near the West Philippine Sea on Wednesday. In a statement on Thursday, the Philippine Marine ...

BEIJING – The Taihang Mountains are steeped in cultural heritage and have been the birthplace of numerous heroes. It spans across Beijing, Hebei province, Shanxi province, and Henan province. During ...

These virtual assistants can in effect think for themselves and work on their own, putting them well ahead of regular AI agents such as chatbots, which often need a person to tell them what to do at ...

MANILA – Former President Rodrigo Duterte will be called into a separate drug war probe that his allies in the Senate plan to initiate during the session break. The investigation will be conducted by ...

CHONGQING – Every morning for the past five years, 79-year-old Luo Licai would embark on a two-stop subway ride to meet his companions at Sanyi Shuyuan, a quaint teahouse nestled in Nanhu community in ...

KATHMANDU – For 21-year-old Aisha, mental health was not just a buzzword casually tossed into conversation. It was a raw, lived experience, etched deeply into her family’s story. Her father had ...