Bali tipping row: call for Indonesian tourists to pay up triggers backlash

Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare the capital. Inside the home of Kamonchanok Sathaphonamonwut, raised more than three metres (10 feet) above the ground in Ayutthaya province, her family of three sleeps on makeshift platforms and cannot use the waterlogged toilet. Her village has been flooded six years in a row, pushing some to move away, while others have raised their houses...

Noorizwan's family kept in the dark, demands action from govt and IGP.

Refrain from taking sides, making speculative interpretations, it advises.

Cops don't owe a private law duty of care to complainants in determining how probe is conducted - bench.

Malaysians aged 30 and below bought some 5.4 billion ringgit (US$1.32 billion) worth of goods and services on short-term credit in the first half of this year, the country’s Finance Ministry has revealed. The ministry said it had recorded 65.9 million “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) purchases among younger consumers in the first six months of 2026 – equivalent to more than one in three, or 37.9 per cent, of total purchases nationwide. As of June 30, the outstanding BNPL financing balance among this...

Ramanan says most roles are high-skilled, amid concerns over benefits generated.

Malaysian low-cost carrier Firefly extended cancellations of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore until Wedneday, the airline said, as haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia chokes air quality in the region.

Sports minister says SIC conducting cost-benefit analysis, which govt will consider.

PARLIAMENT | | 'There's a need to assess a law that would allow such practices to be defined as offences.'

Bars, karaoke parlors, dance clubs and hotels in Vietnam may lose their designated smoking areas and go fully smoke-free in phases, under a draft decree that accompanies proposed changes to the country's tobacco law.

Actress Selma Blair faces two counts of second-degree assault in New York, accused of kicking a police officer and a nurse after a Delta Air Lines flight on which two flight attendants reported injuries.

Motorists have been left queuing for hours at petrol stations across Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in recent days amid reports of a crippling fuel shortage. Long queues have been spotted all around the island, including in the capital Denpasar, Badung and Tabana, according to the Bali Post. On Tuesday, Bali Governor I Wayan Koster stressed that there was enough fuel to go around, suggesting that panic buying might have caused the shortages at the pumps. “People need to be patient because the...