Meanwhile, Iraq’s Prime Minister al-Sudani visited Saudi Arabia, expressing his ‘readiness to cooperate with friends in the region’
Iraq selects Hamid Al-Shatri as Head of Intelligence Service
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has recently made significant appointments to key intelligence and border authority positions. According to government sources, these changes are part of
South Korea’s allies cheered Yoon’s foreign policy, ignored domestic discord
A focus on a foreign policy seen as favourable to the West, limited attention on the political discord in South Korea, and a hesitation to be seen interfering in domestic matters, left its partners blindsided.
South Korea to host top East Asian football tournament in 2025
South Korea will host the top East Asian football tournament next summer, a decision reached during the executive meeting of the sport’s regional governing body earlier this week.
ASEAN Needs to Rethink Its Myanmar Strategy
For a truly “Myanmar-owned and -led” solution, regional governments should be centering efforts toward dialogue and peacebuilding on the voices of the people of Myanmar, not a junta responsible for …
Dog Gets Carried Like A King On A Polystyrene Box During Floods In Thailand
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And when floods give you a polystyrene box? In Thailand, you turn it into a royal dog carriage. Amid heavy flooding in southern Thailand, one dog has …
Myanmar army’s election plan part of regional talks in Thailand, sources say
Thailand is hosting two separate regional meetings on Myanmar this week, the first involving the war-torn country’s neighbours, including China, Bangladesh and India, followed by one comprising …
PREVIEW Vietnam seeks to boost domestic defence industry as it hosts arms fair
Vietnam will showcase locally made weapons at an international arms fair in Hanoi on Thursday, as it seeks to boost its domestic industry and possibly export military equipment.
Corporate Japan is steeling itself for hostile interest
Then put that idea in the company safe, mark it “emergency use” and keep the combination handy. The chances are rising that it will be needed before the end of 2025. Corporate Japan has been rumbled, …
Exclusive: Adani, under bribery scrutiny, pressed by Bangladesh to reopen power deal
Bangladesh’s interim government has accused energy supplier Adani Power of breaching a multi-billion-dollar agreement by withholding tax benefits that a power plant central to the deal received from …