Malaysia is becoming an attractive destination for many Qataris, who travel to the Southeast Asian nation for its education and leisure amenities, according to ambassador Ahmad Jazri Mohamed Johar.
Philippine police have said nearly 2,300 people have died in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs since July, down from an earlier estimate of 3,600, after investigations into the near-daily killings.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
Pregnant women living in areas of Thailand prone to Zika outbreaks are to be tested for the virus, the Thai Health Ministry said on Monday.
Thailand confirmed on Friday that the Zika virus had caused two cases of microcephaly, a condition that results in babies being born with small heads, the first time it has been linked to Zika in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing firm Grab on Friday teamed up with a US-based software developer to run a limited public trial of a self-driving car service in Singapore.
China and Myanmar are set to sign deals to build a strategic bridge near their border and two hospitals in the Southeast Asian country, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi met government leaders in Beijing.
Eight budget airlines from Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia said they have formed what they called the world's largest alliance of low-cost carriers, enabling customers to book connections using a shared platform.
Israel is razing Palestinian homes and other buildings constructed with international aid at an ‘alarming’ rate, the UN says, with more demolitions so far this year than in all of 2015.
Thousands of astronomy enthusiasts are flocking to Indonesia this week to catch a rare event - the country's first total solar eclipse in nearly 33 years.
