Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories

Hong Kong National Security Office Warns Foreign Media Over Coverage of Deadly High-Rise Fire Ahead of Election

China’s national security office in Hong Kong has issued an unusually direct warning to foreign media, accusing several outlets of spreading “false information” and “smearing” the government’s response to the city’s deadliest fire in nearly eight decades. The statement, released...
Pedestrians walk past the banner promoting the Hong Kong Legislative Council General Election in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Votes Under “Patriots Only” Rules as City Reels From Deadliest Fire in Decades

Hong Kong went to the polls on Sunday (Dec 7) in its second Legislative Council election under Beijing’s “patriots only” framework, a vote unfolding under the shadow of a catastrophic blaze that claimed at least 159 lives and left the...
Turkish Aerospace Arrives at EDEX 2025 With Expanding Export Momentum and Full-Spectrum Airpower Portfolio

Turkish Aerospace Arrives at EDEX 2025 With Expanding Export Momentum and Full-Spectrum Airpower Portfolio

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) opened its presence at EDEX 2025 in Cairo with a clear message: regional airpower modernization is accelerating, and Türkiye intends to be a long-term partner in shaping that trajectory. Backed by more than three billion dollars’...
K9A1 self-propelled howitzer. Hanwha Aerospace

Hanwha Aerospace Becomes First South Korean Defense Firm to Own Its Weapons Systems After Regulatory Breakthrough

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 Defense

South Korea Approves KRW 65.8 Trillion Defense Budget for 2026, Largest Increase in Seven Years

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 Lanka Cyclone

Sri Lankans Rally Together as Cyclone Ditwah Leaves Trail of Devastation

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-Tech Market Set to Triple by 2030 Amid Talent Shortages- Startup Boom

India’s Defence-Tech Market Set to Triple by 2030 Amid Talent Shortages, Startup Boom: Report

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...
Hong Kong fire: Wang Fuk Court structure fire, Tai Po District, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong High-Rise Inferno Claims at Least 146 Lives as Anger Mounts Over Safety Failures

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...
Starlink satellites

China Intensifies Research on Disrupting Starlink as Fears Grow Over Taiwan Conflict

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

Myanmar junta Arrests Nearly 1,600 Foreign Nationals in Five-Day Crackdown on Border Scam Hub

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...
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