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Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul acknowledged the government’s shortcomings in flood management.

What do the state election results mean for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose Pakatan Harapan coalition claimed only a single seat out of 22 contested?  

A day after his party finished second in the election, Warisan president Shafie Apdal said it has proven itself by winning the popular vote across all 73 seats.

For some Aceh residents, this has reignited the trauma of the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 170,000 people in the province alone.

Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with the blaze.

Another 203 people are missing, the Disaster Management Centre said. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared a state of emergency on Saturday (Nov 29).

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared a state of emergency on Saturday (Nov 29).

The measures, approved at a wildlife trade conference in Uzbekistan, ban the trade in oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays as well as whale sharks.

While daily life remains largely intact, Chinese locals and Japanese expatriates in China tell CNA of a quiet unease as the bilateral row persists.

Now that voters know the extent of the government’s failure to manage disaster mitigation efforts, the question is whether President Ferdinand Marcos Jr can turn it around, says Karishma Vaswani for Bloomberg Opinion.

With 73 seats contested, the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition won 29 seats ahead of rival Warisan’s 25, while GRS’ ally - Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s PH - won one seat.

Before the catastrophic fire, Wang Fuk Court was an ordinary Hong Kong estate with a steady, familiar rhythm of daily life.

Heavy monsoon rain overwhelmed parts of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia this week, killing more than 300 people and leaving thousands stranded, many on rooftops awaiting rescue.

Hong Kong leader John Lee, other officials and civil servants, all dressed in black, stood in silence for three minutes early on Saturday outside the central government offices, where flags were lowered to half-mast.

Some polling centres will close in stages from noon, with all of the centres scheduled to cease operations by 5.30pm.

Residents said they had not received clear warnings from local authorities as the incessant rains swelled water levels. 

Check out some great out-of-the-way seafood restaurants in Johor that even that one yaya uncle hasn’t been to yet.

No single party or coalition is expected to secure a simple majority, setting the stage for negotiations to form the next government, said analysts.

Climate change has affected storm patterns, including the duration and intensity of the season, leading to heavier rainfall, flash flooding and stronger wind gusts.

The ruling junta has said the polls, scheduled to start on Dec 28, are the path to peace.

Hong Kong is one of the world's last remaining cities to use the frames for modern construction and building repair, a practice which dates back centuries in China and other parts of Asia.

Hong Kong's anti-graft body has launched a task force to investigate possible corruption in the renovation project at the Wang Fuk Court complex.

More than a third of the inhabitants of Wang Fuk Court, the subsidised housing complex that went ablaze, were over the age of 65.

Leaders of key parties contesting the crucial state polls made a last-ditch pitch to more than 1.7 million eligible voters on Friday (Nov 28), a day before polling.

Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin - who resigned as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s senior political secretary on Nov 25 - and Albert Tei were detained separately on Friday.

More than 14,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas, the government said.

Songkhla province has been hard hit by days of flooding, with the death toll now at 55.

Indonesia, along with neighbouring Malaysia and Thailand, have been hit by severe rains that have caused dozens of deaths across the region in recent days.

Around 200 people are still unaccounted for. 

Five native Thai cat breeds have been crowned national pet symbols, a move celebrated by breeders but met with both optimism and caution by rescuers confronting a growing stray-cat problem.

How lethal autonomous weapon systems are defined could determine whether existing weapons will be regulated or prohibited, says Liu Mei Ching from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

The London super embassy has become the biggest obstacle to the UK's hopes of a reset in relations with China, says Matthew Brooker for Bloomberg Opinion.

The small hall was set up so people could look through dozens of pictures of the dead. 

Early Friday, authorities said the fire had been contained to four of the sprawling apartment complex's almost 2,000 units, well over 24 hours after the blaze broke out in the eight-building complex.

At least 76 people were injured in the blaze, including 11 firefighters.

Ho Wai-ho, 37, was found with burns to his face on the ground floor of a residential complex that was consumed by fire.