During a visit to Indonesia on Tuesday, the President of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, made the announcement that his country’s long-standing bid for membership in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be finalized the following year. He expressed his hope that this would lead to an increase in the amount of trade that occurs between his country and Indonesia. …

Three people are still unaccounted for after a gas explosion following a partial building collapse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin on Tuesday morning. A full investigation into the incident is still ongoing. Nevertheless, it appears to speak to the deterioration of infrastructure following over three decades of fast economic expansion. As a result, people’s standard of life …

The suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this month has had his imprisonment extended by a Japanese court for an additional ten days, pending the filing of official charges. The assassination of Japan’s most influential leader, Abe, in the western city of Nara on July 8 shocked a nation famed for rigorous gun control and …

An accident that occurred early on Sunday morning (July 17) and involved both motorbikes and automobiles claimed the lives of five people and left two more with serious injuries. It was thought that the motorcyclists were taking part in some sort of illegal racing. According to the head of the police department for Penang’s northeast region, Assistant Commissioner of Police …

Within the first hundred days of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s administration, or by the beginning of October, the government plans to give booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine to nearly 23 million individuals. In a message that she sent to CNN Philippines on Tuesday, the officer-in-charge Undersecretary of the Department of Health (DOH), Maria Rosario Vergeire, verified this aim. …

After being forced to postpone the event in Hangzhou due to COVID-19, the organizers of the 2022 Asian Games announced on Tuesday (July 19) that China will now host the games in 2023. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) made the announcement on Tuesday that the Asian Games 2022 will now take place from September 23 to October 8, 2023. …

An American woman has been detained by the authorities in Delhi, the national capital of India, on suspicion that she staged her own kidnapping. According to the police, the woman, who is 27 years old, pretended to be kidnapped in order to “blackmail” her parents into sending her money when she was short on funds. A woman from the United …

The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Singapore said on Tuesday that a girl who was four years old and had COVID-19 passed away in Singapore on Sunday, the 17th of July. She is the second patient in Singapore under the age of 12 to pass away as a result of the disease. According to the Ministry of Health’s response to …

Significant international media coverage was given to President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s trip to France, stressing the strong bilateral ties between the two nations. The agreements and Memorandums of Understanding inked during the visit, which would strengthen the strategic alliance between the UAE and France, were praised by international media sources. According to the French newspaper …

SINGAPORE — Mahadi Ab Latif, 45, agreed to aid a friend from a halfway house who wanted to manufacture fake $100 bills to buy illegal smokes. The amount of bogus $100 local notes the police seized from the two forgers was $18,500. When he was arrested, Mahadi was working as a driver when he discovered an empty warehouse and helped …