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Ploynaplus Chirasukon (left) and Kwanporn Kongpetch pose for pictures after registering their same-sex marriage in Bangkok today. — Pic by AFP

Hundreds to wed today as Thai same-sex marriage law now in force

No immediate casualties were reported after a magnitude 5.8 quake struck off the central Philippines today. — File pic by Reuters

Magnitude 5.8 quake hits Philippines, no immediate reports of casualties

The Laken Riley Act is named after a 22-year-old student murdered by a Venezuelan man with no papers who was wanted for shoplifting. — File pic by AFP

US Congress approves Trump crackdown on migrant criminal suspects

An inmate crew led by firefighters light backfires near power lines as smoke from the Hughes Fire fills the sky in Castaic. — Pic by AFP

Mass evacuations after explosive new fire erupts near Los Angeles

US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, US, on January 21, 2025. — Reuters pic

Who’s getting fired? What Trump’s war on diversity means

People walk in Myeongdong shopping district in Seoul, South Korea in this file picture dated June 1, 2016. The Asian country has recorded the world’s lowest fertility rates, but the number of newborns between January 2024 and November 2024 rose 3 per cent from a year earlier to 220,094, monthly government data showed on Wednesday. — Reuters pic

South Korea’s birthrate set to rise in 2024 for first time in nine years, boosted by rebound in marriages

A view shows Israeli tanks near the border with Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel, January 21, 2025. — Reuters pic

Asean demands immediate action: Israel-Hamas ceasefire must be fully implemented

This handout photograph on January 21, 2025, shows an aerial view of a fire on the fourth floor of the 11-storey hotel in Bolu’s Kartalkaya ski resort. — DHA (Demiroren News Agency) handout pic via AFP

What we know about the deadly Turkiye ski resort fire that killed 76, injured 51

In the clip made by generative artificial intelligence posted to the government’s Facebook page, a likeness of Paetongtarn Shinawatra appears speaking in fluent Mandarin, a language she does not speak in real life. — Screengrab from Facebook/PR Thai Government

Thai PM makes Mandarin AI video to reassure Chinese tourists amid border kidnappings (VIDEO)

While campaigning, Donald Trump had vilified diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government and corporate world, saying they discriminated against white people — men in particular. He also demonised any recognition of gender diversity, attacking transgender people — notably transgender women in sports — and gender-affirming care for children. — AFP pic

Trump orders immediate shutdown of federal diversity offices, staff put on paid leave

The entrance of an immigration detention centre is pictured in Bangkok. — Pic by AFP

Thailand denies plans to send 48 Uyghurs back to China

Jeju Air flight 2216 was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea on Dec 29, 2024, when it issued a mayday call and belly-landed before hitting a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except two flight attendants pulled from the burning wreckage. — Pic by AFP

South Korea to implement improvements at seven airports across the country after Jeju Air crash

Volunteers carrying a body on a makeshift stretcher in Pekalongan. — Screenshot from X/roniabidin2

Indonesia resumes search for 13 missing after deadly landslide in Central Java

Sebastian Harrison poses for a photo as he surveys the charred ruins of his home and annexes overlooking the Pacific Ocean after the Palisades fire in Malibu. —  Pic by AFP

No home, no insurance: The double hit from Los Angeles fires

Drug kingpin Ulbricht, who ran Silk Road, had also been accused of commissioning five murders. — Pic by AFP

Trump pardons ‘Silk Road’ drug kingpin undergoing two life sentences

Snow falls on Chartres Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. — AFP

Rare snow socks New Orleans as Arctic blast chills much of US