In a speech on Wednesday (Jul 1) marking the Communist Party’s 105th anniversary, Chinese President Xi Jinping also reaffirmed Beijing’s long-standing goal of reunification with Taiwan.

Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta will present Mr Wong with the country's highest honour in recognition of Singapore's support for its development and ASEAN accession.

Mothers who have a second child will get seven months of maternity leave, up from six.

Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, including in Southeast Asia, an investigation has found.

With seizures of drug-laced vapes rising, anti-narcotics officials are pushing for a ban on e-cigarettes and arguing that Indonesia remains behind many of its neighbours in regulating them.

Economic interdependence was once expected to guarantee peace. It now fuels resentment, says economics professor Danny Quah from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Amirudin Shari, a senior leader in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's party, also dismissed concerns that upcoming state elections in Johor and Negeri Sembilan will disrupt the current administration.

World Cup 2026 has shown that the future of football is not in Asia yet, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.

Indonesia is one of the few countries in Southeast Asia where all 104 World Cup matches are available on free-to-air TV.

AirAsia's Indonesian subsidiary Indonesia AirAsia previously provided a daily Singapore-Jakarta service, but this will be halted from July.

The 19 defendants are accused of selling at least 34 babies between 2022 and 2025, some of whom were taken to Singapore and sold for thousands of dollars for each child.

Featuring four female K-pop stars who later transform into old men behind bars, the ad was meant to convey the message that drugs will ruin lives “no matter how pretty they're packaged”.

Meituan says the performance of its new large language model, LongCat-2.0, is comparable to Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, which was released in February.

The case has renewed calls to make exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China a criminal offence under Taiwanese law.

Former education minister Nadiem Makarim guilty of corruption tied to the procurement of Chromebooks for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in around US$120 million in state losses.

The trial marks the latest legal challenge against politicians from the dissolved Move Forward Party, which campaigned to reform the law pertaining to the monarchy.