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Primary schools and kindergartens across China are being turned into nursing homes and senior centers as a record-low birth rate empties classrooms and the number of elderly residents keeps climbing.

Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.

A fugitive wanted over a 2002 kidnapping and robbery in eastern China lived for nearly 19 years as his dead twin brother, until the brother's former girlfriend told police who had really died in a 2007 car crash.

Hong Kong has about 40 fewer kindergartens than a year ago as births sink to record lows and first-time mothers are older than ever.

A Sydney currency dealer caught logging on from a Singapore hotel when he was meant to be working from home has won his unfair dismissal case but will receive no compensation.

Ho Chi Minh City's Ben Thanh–Suoi Tien metro line suspended service for 53 minutes on Saturday morning due to a power outage, disrupting 14 trains and forcing passengers to disembark at stations.

Japan's Kyoto University is the only Asian institution to rank among the world's top 20 universities for mathematics in the 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, which is dominated by universities in the United States and Europe.

Japan's foreign resident population reached a record 4.28 million at the end of June, making up 3.48% of the country's population, according to the Immigration Services Agency.

A Hong Kong teenager has pleaded guilty to splashing acid on a woman visiting from Singapore in June 2025, leaving her with second-degree burns.

A Ledger crypto wallet bought at Singapore's Changi Airport contained a hidden spy implant, former Mt.

Debate over English's place in China's education system has resurfaced online after a popular math tutor called for the subject to be given less prominence in schools, arguing that most students rarely use the language after graduation and that learning it

The Thu Thiem 4 Bridge features wave-shaped arches and dedicated pedestrian decks across the Saigon River, linking Ho Chi Minh City's southern part with Thu Thiem new urban area in the city's east.

In the early hours of Oct. 16, giant transporters loaded the nipa palm leaf-shaped span of a pedestrian bridge onto a barge twice the size of a mini football pitch, ready to cross the sea from Vung Tau to Bach Dang wharf for installation.

A Bangkok tuk-tuk driver who demanded 4,000 baht (US$120) from two tourists for a ride from The Weeknd's concert has been fined after posting a video of the dispute online.

The University of Chicago is extending restrictions on AI and electronic devices from undergraduate social science courses to humanities classes, as the university seeks to strengthen students' independent thinking while debating how AI should be incorpor…

British University Vietnam (BUV) is the only Vietnamese institution featured in the QS Global MBA Rankings for the second consecutive year, rising two places to 41st in Asia.

East Kalimantan Governor Rudy Mas'ud is facing a backlash after a photo of him at breakfast with his wife in Singapore went viral while wildfire smoke blankets his Indonesian province.

Thai immigration police have arrested a 34-year-old Chinese former flight attendant accused of brokering illegal border crossings between Thailand and Malaysia for Chinese nationals.

A Chinese graduate student at the University of Wyoming has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, accused of poisoning a Vietnamese colleague's tea with a neurotoxin before trying to fly home.

The National University of Singapore's executive MBA rose 14 places to ninth in the Financial Times' Executive MBA Ranking 2026, making the top 10 for the first time.

Three South Korean suspects linked to illegal gambling websites that handled a combined 3.1 trillion won (US$2.3 billion) in bets have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates.

University admissions policies that convert IELTS scores into English exam marks or bonus points have triggered a surge in demand for the English proficiency test, turning it into a potential deciding factor for tens of thousands of applicants.

A 1,900 baht (US$57) Casio engraved with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's name has become a badge of closeness to power among his ministers, senior officials and political allies.

A 4-year-old girl has been found dead with her father on the South Korean resort island of Jeju, months after her mother won a court order for her return to Australia and began asking police for help.

Thai Queen Suthida personally piloted a royal aircraft to Japan on Oct. 14 for a nine-day visit to attend the 2027 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Ice Hockey Women's Asia Championship.

Xiaoyue, a Chinese influencer known online for her 2.2 m height, died of illness at home in Sichuan Province, aged 26.

A new kitchen funded by De Heus through Hope Foundation at Branch 1 of Le Van Tam Primary School in the southern province of Tay Ninh began serving more than 400 boarding students on Oct. 14.

An Uzbek doctor and fellow passengers have been credited with saving the life of a Korean-American woman who suffered a severe medical emergency aboard a flight from Uzbekistan to South Korea.

More than 20 flights were delayed or cancelled at Okinawa's Naha Airport on Oct. 13 after a security checkpoint shut for about two hours over a cleaner's missing scissors.

Pollution readings in Singapore reached their highest level this year ‌on Wednesday while East Timor shut its schools for three days in response to intensifying smoke and haze from Indonesia's wildfires.

Japanese police have arrested five Malaysians at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on suspicion of smuggling about 5 kg of cocaine under their shoe insoles, with a street value police put at 120 million yen (US$758,000).

Thousands of residents in Ho Chi Minh City lined the streets from early morning on Oct. 14, holding white flowers to pay their respects as a procession carrying the remains of 731 fallen soldiers made its way to Ho Chi Minh City Martyrs' Cemetery for rebu…

Test and calibration flights on Oct. 12 and 13 checked navigation systems and signal lights at the under-construction Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai City.

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.

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.

Long queues formed at McDonald's outlets in Singapore on Oct. 8 for limited-edition merchandise tied to K-pop star G-Dragon, and one crowded outlet was seen with its shutters pulled down.

Experts warn that up to one-third of Bangkok could face permanent inundation by 2050 if Thailand fails to undertake sweeping water management reforms.

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More than 30 pigs have become unlikely social media stars at Keat Farm in Cambodia's Kampong Chhnang, splashing down bright pink water slides, diving into a pool and showing off tricks including cannonballs and underwater somersaults.

Thailand's Queen Suthida flew a Gripen fighter jet solo for the first time on Oct. 8, watched by King Maha Vajiralongkorn at an air base in Surat Thani Province.

Singapore collected more than S$639,000 (US$499,380) in unpaid fines from 265 foreign motorists at its land checkpoints in three days, weeks before it starts denying entry permits to vehicles with outstanding penalties.

Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for “bold and inventive” works that fuse the classical and the modern and blur the boundaries of poetry and prose.

The Ministry of Construction has approved adjustments to the planning of Phu Quoc International Airport for 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050, adding and revising facilities to meet security, safety and organizational requirements for APEC Economic Leaders'

Singapore has pledged nearly S$70,000 (US$54,700) in support for every child, but long working hours and education pressure are keeping many young couples from becoming parents.

British University Vietnam (BUV) and Manchester Metropolitan University have expanded their partnership to integrate workplace experience into academic programs and strengthen graduate employability in Vietnam.

Singapore's air pollution ranked the worst among the world's major cities on Oct. 7 as haze from Indonesian wildfires blanketed the region and prompted the neighboring Malaysian state of Johor to shut all its schools for two days.

Ho Chi Minh City has addressed flooding in many places, yet its fragmented infrastructure, delayed works, and increasing rainfall and high tides mean many areas still suffer from severe waterlogging.

Malaysia's oldest higher education institution, Universiti Malaya (UM), has achieved a milestone by becoming the country's first university to ever enter the global top 200, placing 194th in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2027.

Asia has overtaken Europe for the first time in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, with China's Tsinghua University rising to 11th place and becoming the highest-ranked university outside the U.S. and U.K.

A mathematics professor and provost at Dartmouth College has been accused of using AI to write nearly all of his academic papers and opinion pieces, sparking criticism from colleagues and students who are calling for his dismissal.