Bloomberg A television news channel in Taiwan apologised after erroneously reporting on Wednesday that China had launched an invasion just outside the capital Taipei, triggering alarm online. Taipei-based Chinese Television Systems, a TV network partially owned by the Taiwanese government, ran a ticker along the bottom of the screen at 7 am local time saying that China had attacked ...

  Bloomberg About 528 ethnic Rohingya refugees broke out of an immigration detention centre in Malaysia, with more than a hundred still at large, according to the Malaysian Immigration Department. The detainees escaped by breaking down the doors and grills to their block at the Sungai Bakap Temporary Immigration Depot in Penang state, the department said in a statement. The ...

  Bloomberg The first fatality after weeks of protests in Sri Lanka over food and fuel shortages intensified calls for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign, with a key opposition leader saying Rajapaksa was “responsible for every death.” Officers fired live rounds in the central Rambukkana area after tear gas failed to dispel a group of protesters who had blocked a ...