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Australian police uniforms and badges are being sold on a major Chinese online shopping platform as authorities warn of a growing wave of impersonation scams.

China's leading memory chip maker CXMT is emerging as a potential alternative source of memory for a market under strain from the AI boom, observers say.

Taiwan suspends some liquefied natural gas purchases from Papua New Guinea as part of an escalating diplomatic dispute over the future of its representative office in Port Moresby.

Thirteen people have now been confirmed dead after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit Japan's south.

China's state media releases an English version of a love ballad about lovesick sailors in the South China Sea.

Authorities are scouring the wreckage of a collapsed shopping centre southern Japan following a magnitude-7.1 earthquake. Look back on the day's event's here.

The disappearance of two boats carrying more than 500 Rohingya asylum seekers off the coast of Myanmar in recent weeks brings the number of people reported lost at sea in the region this year to more than 800.

Across the country's protest hotspots, India's gen Z are using meme culture as part of their hopes to bring the country into a new dawn.

The company says the issue stopped users "joining or creating Microsoft Teams meetings or calls for users in the Asia-Pacific region".

As a Rohingya person from Myanmar, Asma was denied an official nationality. Migration experts say statelessness, an issue faced by over 8,000 people in Australia, remains poorly understood. 

Thousands of protesters under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party have marched on India's parliament and clashed with the authorities. Here's why. 

Vision posted online by the Philippines Coast Guard shows Filipino and Chinese personnel briefly engaging each other from inflatable boats, with the Philippines accusing China of assaulting one of its navy staff.

The scam industry in Myanmar is morphing and heading into the jungle rather than disappearing since a crackdown began.

You can swap an empty electric vehicle battery in about four minutes in China. It is part of how China has come to dominate the EV industry.

Most of us never chose to live in an artificial intelligence (AI) world. Yet over the past few years, it has become part of everyday life, changing how we think, learn and communicate.

Investigators in Laos gave one of their first detailed accounts of the investigation into the deaths of six people, including 19-year-old Australians Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones, saying they don't have enough evidence to lay charges because autopsies were not carried out.

Sonam Wangchuk, who began a hunger strike last month in solidarity with India's youth party after an examination scandal affected millions of students, was forced to go to hospital by court order due to his "deteriorating health condition".

Despite repeated setbacks and isolation, India continues to hold onto its nuclear dream.

Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles, both 19, died after the incident at the Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng in November 2024.

South Korea is doubling down on its bid to lead in AI, unveiling plans last month to spend hundreds of billions on developing its chip manufacturing.