Best World’s Dora Hoan to chair global direct selling body

UPDATED 9.50AM | Twenty-year-old suffers serious injuries to the back of his head.

Advocates call for early intervention, legal reform, and action on misogyny.

Singapore is turning to major technology firms to strengthen its cyber defences, even as it presses them for greater transparency over security breaches – a balancing act facing regional governments as they seek to harness artificial intelligence while guarding against the risks it introduces. Those risks were highlighted by an AI agent linked to OpenAI that gained unauthorised access to files on an Australian government website earlier this year, raising questions over how quickly companies...

Speaking the language comes naturally to this second-generation descendant of Javanese ancestry.

On October 18, Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory preparing one of the largest listings in history, committed 5 per cent of its shares to a public benefit fund. The next day, Elon Musk promised one SpaceX share, next year, for “every kid in America” – about US$10.6 billion for some 73 million children. The offers differ in who holds the shares. Anthropic’s will sit in an entity the company owns, spent on the public’s behalf; Musk’s would land, by a route he has not explained,...

Ex-CM to defend Bukit Katil, Amanah Women's chief to contest Akmal's seat.

MCA upset that five seats it previously contested were handed to PN.

BN sticks to previously won seats, leaving PN to fight Harapan.

A newly revealed sinkhole in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in central Vietnam's Quang Tri Province covers more than 2 hectares and is home to a primeval forest and wildlife.

MP warns hasty Waze ban could disrupt commuters and gig workers.

The Tokyo District Court on Oct. 22 sentenced a former University of Tokyo professor to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for accepting entertainment at high-end clubs and adult entertainment establishments as bribes from a research partner.

The 2026 Thầy Thím Temple Cultural and Tourism Festival in the coastal commune of Tân Hải in Lâm Đồng Province attracted more than 20,000 believers and visitors from October 23-25.