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Taiwan detects 5 Chinese aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels operating near its shores

The ministry also confirmed that three of the five aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered the island nation's southwestern ADIZ

Singapore's DBS surges to record on higher margins, capital return plans

DBS's net interest margin, a key profitability gauge, rose to 2.15 per cent during the quarter from 2.13 per cent a year earlier

Asia shares slip, dollar up with yields as Trump's trade tariffs loom

China's retaliatory tariffs on some US exports are due to take effect on Monday, with no sign as yet of progress between Beijing and Washington

Trump plans to announce 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum imports today

The president also said he would announce reciprocal tariffs this week on countries that tax US imports

Honda, Nissan results likely to highlight flaws as deal set to fail

A deal would have created one of the world's biggest carmakers, giving the combined company the scale it needs to compete with EV makers

Trump suggests Musk's DOGE found irregularities in effort at Treasury

Musk's DOGE has sought access to Treasury Department payments data, but Musk's statements on social media have largely concerned payments to contractors and grant recipients, not bondholders

Vance, Musk question authority of courts as Trump's agenda faces pushback

Elon Musk said overnight that the judge who ruled against him should be impeached.

Trump says losing patience, compares freed Israelis to Holocaust survivors

Trump said Arab nations would agree to take in Palestinians after speaking with him and insisted Palestinians would leave Gaza if they had a choice

Over 1,000 arrested in Bangladesh after vandalism at Sheikh Hasina's house

Muhammad Yunus-led interim government ordered "Operation Devil Hunt" on Saturday after student activists were injured during vandalism

Saudi Arabia rejects Netanyahu's proposal for Palestinian state on its land

Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there, said Netanyahu

Pressure mounts on extending Gaza ceasefire as details on hostages emerge

Trump himself suggested he was losing patience with the deal after seeing the emaciated hostages released this week

Trump admin orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work

The agency has been a target of conservatives since President Barack Obama pushed to include it in the 2010 financial reform legislation that followed the 2007-2008 financial crisis

No action despite tariffs, serious about Canada becoming 51st state: Trump

I think Canada would be much better off being the 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada, Donald Trup said

Germany's Scholz calls Trump's Gaza proposal 'scandal' in poll debate

The relocation of populations is unacceptable and against international law, he added in the debate on ARD and ZDF public television

Taiwan's next-generation supercomputer for AI set to launch in May

According to the report, the new system, which will be equipped with Nvidia's H100 graphics processing units (GPU), will initially offer a computing capacity of 16 petaFLOPS

US officials bound for Europe for top-level talks on Russia-Ukraine war

Waltz said the Russian economy is not doing well and that Trump is prepared to tax, to tariff, to sanction Moscow to get Putin to the negotiating table

How Altman sidestepped Musk to win over President Trump

Since Trump's election, the billionaires of Silicon Valley have jockeyed to influence the new administration. None of them have been more successful than Musk

UK shadow ministers join protest against China's mega embassy plan

Shadow ministers are members of the opposition who scrutinise the work of the government

Israel begins to withdraw from key Gaza corridor as part of truce

Israel and Hamas appear to have made little progress on negotiating the deal's second phase, which is also meant to see more hostages released. Talks had been due to start on February 3

40 arrested in Bangladesh after vandalism at Sheikh Hasina's house

Muhammad Yunus's government ordered Operation Devil Hunt on Saturday after the attack on students and civilians in the Gazipur district