Author: ANC News Desk

Advertisement East Asia Starbucks sees sharp drop in Korean sales after ‘Tank Day’ marketing backlash The chairman of Shinsegae Group, the operator of Starbucks Korea, asked people not to take out any anger on their employees and frontline staff. Shattered Starbucks tumblers and mugs lie scattered during a protest against Starbucks’ “Tank Day” campaign, which […]

Advertisement East Asia Japan approves US$3 billion spending to help with energy bills Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions from reporters at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on May 25, 2026. (Photo: AFP/STR/Jiji Press) 26 May 2026 12:33PM (Updated: 26 May 2026 12:38PM) Bookmark Bookmark Share WhatsApp Telegram Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn […]

Advertisement Asia Motorists to pay new Genting Highlands road charges from May 28, starting at US$0.80 Genting Malaysia Berhad previously said the charges were necessary due to steep and escalating costs of maintaining the road and its slopes, which were paid for by the firm since the 1960s. A Google Street view of Jalan Genting […]

Advertisement Asia Rubio revives ‘Quad’ with new Asia projects after questions on US The Quad meeting comes 10 days after US President Donald Trump paid a state visit to China and spoke glowingly of the two powers working together as a “G2”. The Quad Foreign Ministers meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on […]

Advertisement East Asia North Korea fires ballistic missile into Yellow Sea: Seoul South Korea, the United States and Japan were “maintaining a state of full readiness” and closely sharing intelligence, Seoul’s military said. A woman watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train […]

Advertisement Asia China defence chief Dong Jun tipped to skip this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue The regional security forum opens on Friday (May 29) in Singapore with no official word yet on who will lead the Chinese delegation. China’s Minister of National Defence Dong Jun attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China Defence Ministers’ Luncheon […]

Advertisement Asia Malaysian police arrest 51 men, seize drugs in raids linked to ‘gay party’  Authorities also seized about RM103,070 (US$26,000) worth of illicit drugs, including MDMA, ecstasy pills and powder, and ketamine, narcotics investigations department director Hussein Omar Khan said in a statement late Monday (May 25). A person in handcuffs. (File photo: iStock) […]

Advertisement East Asia South Korea aims to launch first nuclear-powered submarine by the mid-2030s People board the South Korean KSS-III submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, at the home port of Canada’s Pacific fleet following exercises, at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on May 25, 2026. (File photo: Reuters/Chris Helgren) 26 […]

Advertisement Asia Search continues for 7 villagers trapped in flooded Laos cave Experts from Thailand who aided the dramatic 2018 retrieval of a youth football team from a Thai cave joined rescue efforts on Monday to extract the seven people, Laotian state media said. Rescuers work to reach seven people who have been trapped in […]

Advertisement analysis Asia ‘Cracks getting bigger’ in Malaysia’s opposition pact, but PM Anwar ‘faces complications’ of his own The increasingly public spat between PAS and Bersatu is pushing their relationship to the brink, but Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim may be facing bigger problems within his ruling coalition, say observers. Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) president […]