SEOUL -- Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of South Korea's majority liberal Democratic Party, would be elected the country's new president with certainty, local broadcaster JTBC and three terrestrial broadcasters said Tuesday.
Lee made a short speech to supporters near his house before heading for the National Assembly building in central Seoul, saying that he paid respect to "people's great decision." (SKorea-Election)
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TOKYO -- Japan's House of Representatives passed Tuesday a bill to impose a ban on opening and operating online casino websites in the country.
The lower chamber of parliament cleared the bill to revise a law on tackling gambling addiction by a majority vote. (Japan-Online Casino)
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ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia's parliament speaker Dashzegve Amarbayasgalan said on Tuesday that since the State Great Khural, or the parliament, did not pass the draft resolution on the vote of confidence in the prime minister, Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene was deemed to have resigned.
Oyun-Erdene has served as the prime minister of Mongolia since January 2021. He was re-elected in July 2024. (Mongolia-PM-Resign)
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JAKARTA -- Indonesian security authorities were chasing at least 19 prisoners who escaped from a prison in Nabire in the eastern province of Central Papua on Monday.
The prison reportedly detained some members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), a separatist movement that aims to separate West Papua from Indonesia and establish an independent state in the region. (Indonesia-Prisoners)
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HONG KONG -- A delegation of consular corps and business communities based in Hong Kong began a four-day tour of Chinese mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) on Tuesday to explore investment opportunities in the region's burgeoning technology sector.
The delegation will visit Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Zhuhai from Tuesday to Friday. (Hong Kong-Visit) Enditem
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