Asean News Headlines at 10pm on Thursday (Dec 11, 2025)


Drinking water is distributed to displaced people at a temporary camp in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province on Dec 11, 2025, amid clashes along the Cambodia-Thailand border. Renewed fighting raged at the border of Cambodia and Thailand on Dec 11, with combat heard near centuries-old temples, ahead of an expected phone call from US President Donald Trump to the two nations' leaders. - Photo: AFP

Malaysia

* PM Anwar, Cabinet ministers congratulate Selangor Sultan on 80th birthday

* Malaysia has recovered RM37.63bil in assets, a 15-fold increase, states financial crime report

* Prosecution withdraws appeal against Rosmah's acquittal in money laundering, tax evasion case

* Police must accept reports without conditions, says Home Minister

* Double-tracking project benefits must reach nearby communities, says PM

* 10-year passport? Yes, please

* 'Police still committed to finding Indira Gandhi’s daughter," says IGP

* Mont Kiara condo fire claims one life, investigation underway

* Federal Court hears prosecution’s final appeal in Syed Saddiq case

* Perlis mufti urged to share details on alleged Korean cult in Malaysia

* Doctor’s molestation case set for mention on Jan 5 in George Town

* EPF, Immigration team up to boost enforcement of mandatory contributions for foreign workers

* Cops seek public help to locate Indira Gandhi's daughter, ex-husband

* Johor-KL ETS route officially launched

* Johor-KL ETS train service to increase to four trips daily in January 2026

* Commuter train rides between JB and Kulai to begin early next year, says Loke

* Heritage player issue: TMJ questions why foreign documents trusted over NRD

* Boy, 15, held over death threats to schoolmate

* Manoharan Periasamy appointed as Tourism Malaysia chairman

* Welder crushed to death while repairing excavator bucket in Terengganu

* Worker finds foetus in lorry in Bukit Jalil

* Bung's son not keen on contesting Lamag seat

* Penang man murders wife, keeps body for four days

* Government retiree loses over RM500,000 to Macau scam

* Seremban cops probing babysitter over death of 12-month-old girl

* Motorcyclist crashes into elephant in Gerik

 

 

Singapore

* Domestic violence cases up last year

* Singaporean actor Leon Jay Williams diagnosed with stage II thyroid cancer

* American man arrested after allegedly molesting six-year-old girl at Changi Airport transit area

* Singapore sees more retrenchments in third quarter as job vacancies continued to drop

* Interpol seizes record 30,000 living animals from the illegal wildlife trade

* Singtel fined S$1mil for fixed line voice outage that disrupted emergency call services in Oct 2024

 

 

Indonesia

* British porn star Bonnie Blue to be deported from Bali

* Indonesia sets rules to fine miners operating in forest areas

* Indonesia suspends four firms suspected of contributing to deadly North Sumatra flooding

* 21 injured as car ploughs into students, teacher at North Jakarta elementary school

* Toll in deadly Indonesia floods near 1,000, frustrations grow

 

 

Thailand

* 500,000 scramble to find shelters

* Sombre, but still smiling

* Thai polo riders crush Brunei 7.5-0 to win historic SEA Games gold

* Thailand and Cambodia keep fighting across contested border ahead of expected Trump calls

* Chinese detainees riot at Thai immigration facility to resist deportation to China

* Upper Thailand to face three days of heavy rain and rough seas as weather turns colder

* Khlong Luek border on edge as thousands of Thais blocked from coming home

 

 

Philippines

* Marcos: I consider myself the luckiest person I know

* Filipino fur-mum hailed as a hero after tossing pet dogs to safety in fiery third-floor rescue

 

 

Vietnam

* Harder to protect identity of sources now

* Vietnam amends law to ban exports of raw rare earth minerals

* Philippine ‘dinosaur egg’ salt gets Unesco protection

* SEA Games: Vietnam earn more golds in swimming and petanque on opening day

* Vietnam urges factories to cut output as Hanoi chokes on smog

* Vietnam's capital chokes through week of toxic smog

 

 

Myanmar

* Junta hunts election critics

* Myanmar junta air strike on hospital kills 31: on-site aid worker

* More than 12 million face acute hunger in Myanmar, World Food Programme says

 

 

Cambodia

* Fighting rages at Cambodia-Thailand border ahead of expected Trump call

* Cambodia takes Thailand border conflict to UN Security Council, seeks urgent intervention

* Civilian death toll in Cambodia rises to 10, over 60 wounded, as Ta Krabei Temple shelled for second time

* Thai soldier killed, 10 wounded as Cambodian mortar hits at Ta Phraya front

* Villagers from high-risk Mom Bei area flee to Cambodia–Laos border sanctuary as Thai strikes intensify

 

 

Laos

* E-hailing firm LOCA secures US$2.5mil investment to up EV charging network and EV taxi fleet in Laos

* New ambassadors to Laos present credentials to President

 

 

Brunei

* Brunei brings home three ICT awards from Apicta 2025

* Stormy days ahead in Brunei

 

 

Aseanplus

* Malaysia's 1MDB money laundering probe a significant achievement, says report

* Malaysians in Cambodia advised to avoid travel to border provinces amid conflict

* Malaysia denies UNHCR barred from immigration depots

* Dengue outbreak claims over 400 lives

* Most schools reopen after quake

* 12 killed in residential building fire

* Festival of Lights joins Unesco heritage list

* Pyongyang fires rockets as top brass holds meeting

* Oil rises after US seizes tanker off Venezuela's coast

* Australian leader defends social media ban as teens flaunt workarounds

* FBM KLCI opens firmer as Wall Street rallies on Fed rate cut

* Fed rate cut pushes ringgit to four-year peak vs greenback

* Almost 200,000 could die in major tsunami after ‘maximum-class’ quake, warn Japan authorities

* China public servants use face masks to bypass facial recognition to help each other skip work

* South Korea minister resigns over alleged Unification Church payments

* The world's happiest animal? Meet Australia's smiling quokkas

* Instagram users given new algorithm controls

* Australia November jobs fall most in nine months, unemployment rate steady

* Bank Negara likely to keep OPR at 2.75% in 2026 despite US Fed rate cuts

* Dollar stumbles as dovish Fed tempts bears

* Jail term for South Korea sex abuse ring boss upped to 47 years

* Bangladesh to hold national election on February 12

* Australia demands social media giants report progress on account bans for children under 16

* China's inflation hits two-year high as demand recovers

* Factbox-Bangladesh election: Main parties and issues

* Skydiver survives plane-tail dangling incident in Australia

* Japanese police rush to retrieve toy guns capable of firing live ammunition

* China and Brazil create joint space laboratory, despite US pressure

* Asian equities see biggest foreign outflows in nearly six years on tech valuation fears

* First climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking Tuvalu in South Pacific

* Video of China woman evading lover’s wife by scaling high-rise wall to hide next door goes viral

* After Paris court ruling, former CM urges 'final closure' to Philippines' claim over Sabah

* Pakistan's ex-spy chief jailed for 14 years in rare military rebuke

* One dead, two missing, after collapse at South Korea library construction site

* FBM KLCI rallies to intraday high, outperforming regional markets

* Watchdog upgrades Malaysia’s illicit finance rating

* How the Luthra brothers fled after the Goa nightclub fire, and how agencies caught them in Thailand

* Upgrade of Malaysia's illicit finance rating reflects whole-of-nation effort, says BNM Governor

* Ringgit jumps to 4.10 against greenback, highest in four and a half years

* Radioactive pendant found on passenger at China airport, described as ‘talisman’ from friend

* IndiGo ‘truly, truly sorry’ for flight chaos, hires outside specialists to examine failures

* HK star Cecilia Cheung breaks down in court over RM6mil lawsuit: 'Unfair to me'

* Malaysian sisters involved in Christmas musicals for 25 years

* China defends jailing bookseller after UN group calls for release

* Bangladesh president wants to quit halfway through term, after February election

* Trial of Chinese crime gangs in Italian fashion stalls amid sabotage fears

* 21 Indian workers killed in accident near China border

 

 

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