Vietnam's Communist Party's Secretary General To Lam was unanimously elected by parliament as the country's president for a five-year term, making him the most powerful Vietnamese leader in decades.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday said it now considers the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be his political successor. Kim's heir apparent, thought to be named Kim Ju Ae, has accompanied her father on several official occasions in appearances thought to be cementing her position.
Myanmar's new parliament elected Min Aung Hlaing as president on April 3, formalizing the junta chief's grip on power under the veneer of civilian rule.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister Kim Yo Jong on Monday said regret expressed by Seoul over a January drone incursion into the North as wise behaviour. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung had earlier expressed regret to Pyongyang after a drone entered North Korea earlier this year, calling the act "irresponsible." What did Kim Yo Jong say?
Taiwan's main opposition party KMT chairperson Cheng Li-wun attends a press conference at the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club in Taipei on March 23, 2026.
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday expressed regret to Pyongyang after a drone entered North Korea earlier this year, calling the act "irresponsible." Initially, Seoul had denied the role of the government in the drone incursion, which took place in January, and suggested it was the work of civilians.
First it was cars and electronics, then pop music and films, and now the beauty industry: skincare and cosmetics "made in Korea" are in demand all over the world. More and more Westerners are raving about South Korean beauty products. This success is no coincidence, nor is it a purely aesthetic phenomenon.
First it was cars and electronics, then pop music and films, and now the beauty industry: skincare and cosmetics "made in Korea" are in demand all over the world. More and more Westerners are raving about South Korean beauty products. This success is no coincidence, nor is it a purely aesthetic phenomenon.
At least eight people were killed in Kabul after an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 rattled parts of northern Afghanistan and western Pakistan late Friday, officials said. The quake was centered in the Hindu Kush mountain range, about 150 kilometers east of the Afghan city of Kunduz, and was felt across Afghanistan, and in parts of Pakistan and India.
Lawmakers in Myanmar on Friday elected former junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, as president after a parliamentary vote. The move follows elections in December and January that were widely criticized by the United Nations and Western governments as a sham designed to legitimize continued military rule. How did Min Aung Hlaing become Myanmar's president?
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