- December 4th, 2025
Hanwha Aerospace has become the first South Korean defense company to officially take ownership of its own weapons platforms, marking a major shift in the country’s defense-industrial landscape. The milestone follows a landmark amendment to national arms export regulations, enabling...
South Korea has finalized its national defense budget for 2026 at KRW 65.8642 trillion (approximately $44.7 billion), marking a 7.5% increase over the previous year’s allocation, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced on December 3. The increase represents the...
Sri Lankan actor and musician GK Reginold steers a motorised fishing boat through the watery maze of Colombo’s flood-stricken suburbs, carrying crates of food and bottled water. Entire neighbourhoods have been submerged for days, leaving families stranded on rooftops and...
India’s defence technology market is on the cusp of a major expansion, projected to grow from $7.6 billion in 2025 to nearly $19 billion by 2030, according to a new industry report released on Tuesday by staffing and workforce solutions...
The death toll from a catastrophic fire that ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong has risen to at least 146, authorities confirmed on Sunday, marking the city’s deadliest blaze in more than seven decades. Police warned the...
Chinese defence researchers have significantly escalated efforts to develop countermeasures against SpaceX’s Starlink mega-constellation, which Beijing increasingly views as a strategic threat in the event of a military confrontation over Taiwan. The latest indication of this campaign comes from a...
Myanmar’s military government said on Sunday (Nov 23) that it has arrested nearly 1,600 foreign nationals in a sweeping five-day operation targeting one of the country’s most infamous online scam hubs along the Thai border. The high-profile crackdown comes as...
The Takaichi cabinet approved a record-breaking stimulus package totaling 42.8 trillion yen (US$273.77 billion) on Friday, marking the largest fiscal expansion in Japan since the Covid-19 pandemic. The package, which includes a 17.7 trillion yen ($113.21 billion) supplemental budget, is...
Indonesia’s Jakarta–Bandung high-speed rail, known as Whoosh, was inaugurated with the ambition of projecting the country into a new era of modern infrastructure. As Southeast Asia’s first high-speed rail system, it symbolized Indonesia’s rise as a regional economic heavyweight capable...
When Beijing issued a travel warning urging Chinese citizens to avoid Japan following a diplomatic flare-up over Taiwan, many in Tokyo’s tourism and retail sectors feared the worst. After all, Chinese tourists are the backbone of Japan’s hospitality economy, known...
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