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From Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya, several New Year’s Eve countdown events will take place across Klang Valley. — Pictures courtesy of Instagram / KLCC / IOI City Mall / The Curve / Sunway Velocity Mall / Tourism Malaysia

Fireworks, festivals and free entry: Five New Year’s Eve countdowns across Klang Valley

Skyscrapers loom through heavy smog in Bangkok on January 20, 2025, where activists are pushing landmark clean-air legislation despite political uncertainty. — AFP pic

Run for your lungs: Thai clean-air crusaders are making pollution a political issue this election

Men play pickleball in the playground of a residential area in Hanoi on December 23, 2025. The fast-growing sport has courted enthusiasts as well as detractors over the sound the ball strikes make on the court. — AFP pic

Pop-pop-pop across Asia: Vietnam’s pickleball craze, second only to Malaysia, drives some locals nuts

An Iraqi engineer examines the soil as bulldozers clear sand dunes and extract clay in the desert south of Samawah on December 21, 2025 to fight increasingly frequent occurrence of transboundary sand and dust storms. — AFP pic

Iraq battles blowing sand as ‘300 dust days’ loom by 2050

A couple enjoying the famous escalator at Shibuya Sky, with sweeping views of Shibuya’s cityscape. — Picture by Japan National Tourism Organization

From Tokyo, Tochigi to Mount Fuji: Here are some must-visit stops for Muslim travellers on their next Japan trip

A China man who goes by the moniker zeonsunlight on Bilibili demonstrated a robot mimicking movements, much like motion capture but instead of it being a virtual sprite on screen, it was a robot. — Bilibili screenshot

Learn from my mistake: China robotics enthusiast gets kicked in the nethers by robot (VIDEO)

Abbie Intang's reputation spread widely in 2005 when a photograph of him hauling a 50‑kilogram water tank to Laban Rata went viral. — Social media pic

Mount Kinabalu’s longest serving porter Abbie Intang dies at 68 after decades of aweing climbers with feats of strength

The Library by BookXcess at Sunway Square Mall in Petaling Jaya, Selangor opened on December 10, 2025 and runs 24/7. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

Why BookXcess is betting big on a 24-hour bookstore in Bandar Sunway

Malaysian calligrapher and artist Kho Kheng Hee with his artworks at the exhibition in Beijing. — The Borneo Post pic

Renowned Sarawak calligrapher Kho Kheng Hee’s works showcased at Beijing exhibition

Umbrella repairman Yau Yiu-wai, 73, photographed in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district, December 26, 2025. — AFP pic

‘I’m sorry to my ancestors’: Hong Kong’s beloved ‘king of umbrellas’ retires, ending a 183-year family trade

The Malaysian Godzilla Store will be the first in South-east Asia. — Picture via Facebook

South-east Asia’s first permanent official Godzilla Store makes landfall at Lalaport KL on Jan 9

Despite the weather, avid skiiers are still willing to brave the elements. — Instagram Stories screenshot

JWA Ski School shares dramatic blizzard skiing video from Hokkaido (VIDEO)

This picture taken on December 12, 2025 shows people eating bear meat hot pot at a restaurant in Chichibu, Saitama prefecture. Since Japan recorded a spike in deadly bear attacks, Koji Suzuki has struggled to keep up with booming demand for grilled cuts of the animal at his restaurant. — AFP pic

Bear-y strange world: The week’s offbeat news

Wang Li dances with a partner at the Hai Shang Jiu Meng Dance Hall in the Changning district of Shanghai December 10, 2025. — AFP pic

‘Just old, not dead’: How Shanghai retirees are waltzing their way to joy

A man pays to play a claw crane game machine inside a shop at the Akihabara district of Tokyo June 6, 2024. — AFP pic

Big plush energy: Inside Tokyo’s claw-machine comeback

Mental health experts stress that postpartum depression is not a failure of motherhood, but a medical condition requiring proper care and support. — iStock.com pic via AFP

The pressure to ‘cope’: Why new mums’ mental health is still being misunderstood