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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.

Once a fire takes hold, getting thousands of people safely down dozens of storeys becomes a race against time, say academics.

Workers and volunteers from Hong Kong's animal welfare agencies have joined rescue efforts, turning up with oxygenated pet carriers and animal ambulances to search for missing pets in the blazing Wang Fuk Court housing complex.

Hasina is currently residing in India and has defied court orders that she return to Bangladesh.

Two days before polling, CNA reports from Sabah on how the key parties are positioning themselves and the hot button topics that have come up during the hustings. 

How did the fire start and what could have caused it to turn so deadly?

Ho Wai-ho, 37, "lost his life in the course of an operation", Hong Kong fire officials said, paying tribute to his “gallantry and selfless devotion to duty”.

The three men are from a construction company responsible for maintenance work at Wang Fuk Court housing complex. 

Hong Kong police said they have "reason to believe that the company’s responsible parties were grossly negligent".

Nearly 300 people are still missing in the city's worst blaze in decades.

Rescue work carried on into the night, more than 24 hours after a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong's Tai Po district went up in flames.

Besides rare earths, Beijing has other levers to pull should febrile US-China relations deteriorate again, says Juliana Liu for Bloomberg Opinion.

A 65-year-old resident surnamed Yuen said his neighbourhood is home to many elderly residents who use wheelchairs and walkers, and the fire left him and his wife homeless.

A 65-year-old man at a temporary shelter said his neighbourhood is home to many elderly residents who use wheelchairs and walkers.

A 65-year-old man at a temporary shelter said his neighbourhood is home to many elderly residents who use wheelchairs and walkers.