It was the second reported US attack on a merchant vessel with a predominantly Indian crew this week.

The newly updated index offers a glimpse into how Washington views the relationship between China's commercial sector and military development as geopolitical competition intensifies, say analysts.

The explosion, which killed 20 people including a Singaporean, occurred at the Erawan Shrine in the centre of Bangkok, an area popular with foreign tourists.

Barisan Nasional’s move to contest solo in Johor is a “legitimate, mature and constitutional democratic act”, says UMNO secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki amid criticism.

Police found most of more than 100 children enrolled at the centre with their hands and feet tied up when they raided it in April, the head of child protection at Yogyakarta's police criminal investigation unit, Apri Sawitri, said in an intervie...